Flashback Friday: Stop and Watch the Sun Rise
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! …there I was a couple of weeks ago on the outskirts of Phoenix,...
Tagged: spiritual growth
Thursday Three For All
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the big bold print to read the...
Dud.
[This post originally appeared on July 4, 2011.] When I was in 8th grade, I had a gig as a teacher in “Children’s Church,” which is where Christian parents send their kids so they won’t...
I AM
This weekend our pastor preached a barn-burner as we wrapped up a five week series called The Name. (No seriously: he lit a match, dropped it in a bale of hay, and whoosh: Mrs. O’Leary’s cow...
Flashback Friday: Why You Shouldn’t Serve The Church
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! You don’t have to live in Church World very long before you...
Standing in the Shadow of the Kingdom
If you’re a regular reader, you’re well aware of my love of all things Disney. I love the parks, I love the culture, I love their obsessive attention to detail and their fastidious commitment to...
Trust the Process
Over the last few weeks our church has sent off a few hundred kids to summer camp. With a separate high school, middle school, and elementary school camp, and separate designated departure days for each, our...
Five Questions with Barnabas Piper
Guest Blogger Week rolls on today with Barnabas Piper. Barnabas blogs at The Blazing Center, is the author of The Pastor’s Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity and Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not The Enemy Of...
Stop and Watch the Sun Rise
Not long ago I was out west for a conference. You need to know that I haven’t spent that much time “out west.” There was that one time in Texas, and another time in California,...
Flashback Friday: Sublime Audacity
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Monday morning I was struck with the fact that we get to call...
