An Experiment in Modern Parables The winners of the three-phase writing contest are now available in a freshly published…

THE NOBILITY OF GOD’S CALL Now look at God’s call from God’s perspective. Again, I’m going to ask you to…

MAYBE IT WAS A WRONG NUMBER Some days you wonder, don’t you? Was I called to ministry or was it…

HEARING GOD’S CALL It is quite normal for clergy and educators to have moments of discouragement that lead them to…

UNASHAMED OF GRACE The Gospels never celebrate the failed behaviors of Peter and the other disciples but they do not…

BEGIN WITH THE WISDOM OF JESUS Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount with an image of the type of…

I think it was Loren Eiseley who said if humans had designed the universe, they would have made one disastrous…

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE The same problem looks different depending on the angle from which you view it. For example, a…

IDEAS VERSUS RELATIONSHIPS One of the hesitancies about speaking to people outside the church about faith is that we fear…

EVANGELISM IS NOT SALESMANSHIP Recently we have seen lots of articles about the fall in church membership and the rise…

WE KNOW IT’S TRUE We know that we are not perfect. We accept that we all have sinned and fallen…

For the past few blogs, I’ve been talking about how you can explore various aspects of ministry and your spiritual…

Parables and Your Spiritual Life Lots of people try to play God in this world, but what if you could…

HOW TO LISTEN The problem with our ideological splits today is that we have lost the capacity to listen to…

LOSS OF TRUST THAT BINDS US Consider what is happening in our society. In recent years, almost every major institution…

ENTER INTO A MYSTERY We often speak  about God calling someone to ministry in an almost casual fashion. When you…

A true/false test for those who are genuinely called by God to serve the church. Those called by God always…

HOW YOU THINK OTHERS SEE YOU You can’t avoid having ideas about how others see you. Your assumptions about what…

NAMING THE DEMON If you read the last blog, you know I believe there is no shame in having a…

ON THAT FIRST “GOOD FRIDAY” IT LOOKED ANYTHING BUT GOOD FOR JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES. BUT GOD WAS ALREADY AT…