I recently had a wonderful opportunity to communicate at my church.  Since becoming the Service Programming Director at Browns Bridge Community Church, I have not been able to communicate as much as …

The pathos of God is on the prophet. It moves him. It breaks out in him like a storm in the soul, overwhelming his inner life, his thoughts, feelings, wishes and hopes. It takes possession …

Lately a spirit of unity has been sweeping over the youth ministry community where I live. It seems that we’ve all come to the conclusion that if we don’t work together …

One of my traditions, done each year with a few hiccups, is to take some quiet hours on New Years Eve or sometime before I start back to work and review how life is going …

Life change happens best in Sunday school? Small group? Deeper discipleship classes that teach people to be self-feeders? The church in America has been wrestling with this question for several decades. We’ve been trying to …

God’s path… God’s path… God’s path… I find myself always repeating that quietly. What feelings are common during the repetitions? Guilt, happiness, firmness, confidence, optimism and even failure, why? Because, sometimes it’s difficult to follow …

Many pastors I know are subject to the mental cruelty of their own rumination.  Oh, it’s the bane of pastoral ministry! Rumination, like a cow chewing her cud, swallowing, regurgitating to chew some more, ad …

I’ve devoted my life to doing ministry work, so of course everything I do is for God’s glory, right?  So why then did I feel so angry and resentful at a leader appreciation event when …

In my earliest years I attended a parochial school. I remember second grade distinctly because the “character theme” one month was humility. At the end of that month, in an assembly before the entire school …

One of the most powerful tools in healing the walking wounded is what the Bible calls repentance. What is biblical repentance? Put simply, it is when sinfully destructive behaviors and attitudes are first abandoned and …