Most healthy churches are in a constant state of flux as they respond to their people’s needs and the ever-changing external environment. Technology, politics and certainly pandemics demand...
When I worked at Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach California the pro football team named the Raiders had just moved to our area from Oakland. I used to play basketball with several of the team’s members...
The other students loved it. The teacher didn’t. And I was angry with the teacher–still am! I’d just delivered my first “real” sermon in a college class on preaching. Though I’d been teaching...
Church planter? Disciplemaker? COVID-19 pastor? All three have much to learn from an ancient multiplication leader/driver. We tend to romanticize modernity. This social evolution paradigm mistakenly...
Are you nervous yet? I am! I’m old enough to be very nervous about the Corona virus. And, my wife struggles with asthma and a heart condition. We beat the rest of our state into voluntary lockdown...
Someone once told me, “The reason the grass is greener on the other side of the fence is that they painted it.” Once when I was surfing at a place called the Cove, in Palos Verdes California. A movie...
As a young person I learned that if I would seek God, he would meet my needs. This took the form of great jobs that I didn’t quite deserve. As I learned to save and invest money, I made more mistakes...