I fought with my microphone all day yesterday.It started popping at the most inopportune moments during the 8:30 service.  I couldn't tell if it wasn't connected to the battery pack correctly or if the cord was caught up in my clothing or even if I just wore the...

Quick:  if you hear the name Jonah, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? The fish, of course.  (Or whale, depending on how you’ve heard the story.) But Jonah is not about a guy in a fish.   It’s about a man trying to escape his call, hide...

In 1986, Julie and I went to an Eric Clapton concert in New York City's Madison Square Garden.  Clapton looked something like this:Meanwhile, we concert goers that night looked a bit like this:Well, this past Tuesday night, Julie and I saw him again.  It was...

Here's the video testimony that closed the sermon on Sunday:Not only is "that what a living relationship with Jesus Christ is all about," that's what being able to pastor and teach at a church where we are inviting all people into a living relationship with...

It's pretty easy to get caught up in the hoopla around a successful Easter weekend:  more people than ever before, jaw-dropping music, and a positive response to the message that was delivered once on Saturday and then four times on Sunday.You can see the service...

So we wind up our Journey Of Stones with an Easter experience called Rolling Stone.No, the band won't sing Satisfaction.It won't even do the Stones' most theologically sophisticated song, Sympathy For Devil (it doesn't mean what the title suggests). Instead, will dig...

This coming weekend, as you might expect, I long for God to do something through me.  Through us, actually.I hope and pray that he takes our welcome teams, our music teams, our audio-visual volunteers, and ultimately the words of my sermon and through all of...

Last Sunday, a proud father handed me these notes that his eight-year old daughter had taken during the sermon that morning:She caught all the highlights of the message.  And not a few of the asides, the "oh by the ways," the throwaway lines that apparently...

A few years ago,  United Methodist Communications adopted this slogan for our denomination:Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors . . . The People Of The United Methodist Church.As part of the marketing rollout, the church produced a series of television...

Ryan Gordon is our Director of Children's Ministries, and files this report from his Kids Core Discipleship class offered this past Saturday morning:"I am a new Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ…so now what?”  “How do I have a living relationship with...