In any given day, I'm called on to make a number of decisions.Usually, those decisions are strategic in nature: how best to align the staff, how most effectively to extend our influence, how to maximize the impact of our facilities.Sometimes I find those decisions...

News flash: they don't make many new television shows during the summer.  Instead, it's the season for re-runs.Which brings to mind the realization that some shows just never get old; the re-runs are even better than the episodes were the first time...

Yesterday, while our English services brought VBX 2013 to a raucous conclusion with a special kid-focused Sunday morning celebration, I took the opportunity to preach at our Latino worship gathering.In Spanish.I did this once before, on the third Sunday after our...

. . .  because when Children's Pastor Ryan Gordon gave an invitation for the young ones to give their lives to Jesus last night, 84 responded.Here they are getting some follow up from Vanessa Gordon:And from Sammy Gonzalez:A lot of little living...

The buzz you're hearing in the Methodist world is an unprecedented convergence of events, all of which center on the conjoined issues of clergy covenant and same-sex marriage.The rush includes a retired seminary dean & president in New...

I've been spending my evenings this week with several hundred kids and volunteers as we together go through Turn It Up, our 2013 Vacation Bible School.Er -- Experience.And it's been an experience.There's music:Crafts:Activities for pre-schoolers:And, of course, small...

Last week I gave five movies I haven't seen but probably should.So today, it's the reverse.Movies that I paid to see or to rent ... and realized pretty quickly that I shouldn't have.  Some I left, others I took out of the VCR/DVD player, while others I...

I have long loved to preach on what many in the church call "end times."Why?Two primary reasons:  1) it is a great chance to correct what I perceive to be false teaching on the subject . . . namely, the Rapture-based eschatology made popular by the Left Behind...

LeBron is playing in the NBA Finals, right?But is the Second Coming anything more than a marketing campaign by our friends at Nike?Will their be a swoosh?Or something bigger and bolder than that; something on the order of the Bang that got it all started in the first...

When I am walking in the flesh -- meaning, not rigorously & consistently connected to the Holy Spirit -- I can fall into a trap.The trap that says all my thoughts needs to be verbalized.As if I'll lose it if I don't say it.Sarcastic thoughts.Condescending...