Some things you just don't see anymore  . . . . . . A wooden tennis racket (Wilson Jack Kramer!); . . . Short shorts.  Really short shorts; . . . A one-handed backhand; . . . All that hair.  

Last night, we had our Zoar Impact Gathering, a meeting designed to set the vision and recruit high impact volunteers for our new campus on Zoar Road. The highlight of the evening was the talk given by Chris Thayer, who is the Campus Pastor for the site.  I was more...

As a lot of you know, I write these sermons eight weeks out. When I finish writing one, I put it in my "Sermons In Progress" file and then essentially don't look at it again until the Monday before I am to preach it the following Sunday. So for "Human Nature," I wrote...

During a hospital visit some time ago, a young woman said quietly to me, “I like the church because there are all different races there. I wouldn’t want to go to a church that was just all white or all black.” Music to my ears, of course. And then she said something...

As I posted last week, my friend and colleague James-Michael Smith is leading "Let's Talk About Sex," a four week class on developing a mature, biblical sexual ethic. Last night's session focused on The Song Of Songs and was titled, appropriately enough, Hot Bible...

Many if not most of you have never heard of Mike Campbell, who is the lead guitarist of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. He didn't play The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock like Jimi Hendrix. He didn't play the mind-bending solo on Heartbreaker like Jimmy Page. No one ever...

How to motivate a church to be radically generous? How to inspire people to pick up and then fill up thousands of shoe boxes with Operation Christmas Child? How to put in "only human" language the idea of "to whom much is given, much is required"? Those question were...