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Quid Pro Quo

What is in it for me? Many of our attempts to attract people to the Lord are certainly well-intentioned, but possibly do set up a faulty understanding of the Christian life. “If you give your life to Jesus........” and you…

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The Challenge

All of life these days is a challenge. But here is a new one that came to me in the early hours of this morning after a spectacular first Sunday back together for Sunday services. Well, back together in quotations,…

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I’m Surprised

Over the last few weeks of Covid-19 in-home isolation I have been in various conversations with pastors in our region about the corporate gathering of their people...and I am puzzled and surprised by the lack of urgency in most of…

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God Did What?!

I have an Ethiopian pastor friend who talks to me about a “made-in-America” brand of Christianity and how little it resembles the lives of Christians in the rest of the world. I heard a famous young celebrity preacher make two…

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I Saw The Lord

Maybe it’s the general impact of what we are all experiencing right now... Maybe it’s the particular frame of mind that I’m in, as we (as a church) wrestle with the pastoral implications of isolation... Maybe it’s the way all…

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Cover Me

Every one of us longs to be covered. We long to have our shortcomings covered... those imperfections in our abilities that we try to hide from others lest we be exposed for what we really are. We long to have…

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Miracle in the Routine

Like a discouraged Elijah, retreating from our troubles and hiding in a cave on the mountain, we have an expectation that God will meet with us and answer us in the whirlwind, the earthquake or with fire from heaven. Something…

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