People leave churches for the craziest reasons.  It happens all the time: sheep shuffle from one church to another for a myriad of reasons.  As a pastor of a church where the revolving door revolves quite a bit, it deeply pains me to see people leave, and it causes me pause when people arrive having [...]

I’m all for humor, joking, and laughter…but this just struck me the wrong way.  I sure hope this pastor gets at least a reprimand from his church board for this ridiculous display of foolishness and irreverence.

This is a condensed transcript of my July 17, 2011 sermon. Our story starts in Eden where peace, harmony, and unhindered community with God prevailed.  Perfection.  But man rebelled and bought the lie that we could be like God, and as a result, man was expelled from the garden.  This would become the first of [...]

It’s been a sobering week for me.  On Tuesday, I was working out at the gym when suddenly a man on a treadmill in front of me fell off his machine and landed wedged between his machine and the one next to him.  Immediately, I – along with a few others who saw him fall [...]

This is a condensed transcript of my July 10, 2011 sermon. We humans sure have a knack for messing things up, don’t we?!  I tried to avoid the Casey Anthony trial at all costs, but I broke down last week at the gym when I turned on the TV at the machine I was using [...]

This is a condensed transcript of my June 26, 2011 sermon. What’s your story?  Or better yet: What story are you living?  What story are you allowing to define you? As followers of Jesus, we share the same history…the same story.  But are we allowing it to shape us?  If not, we will be susceptible [...]