Given that this is US Open time of year, last week's Charlotte Observer ran a story about the rather unusual -- OK, bizarre -- routines, habits, and superstitions that pro tennis players bring to their games.For example, Andre Agassi went commando in his first match...

For the second time ever, I'm using this space to remind not to come to church on Sunday.The church is going home.  Again.It's the ultimate in multi-site worship -- every household in our church will host its own worship experience with parents, step-parents, and...

I'm spending several days this week up in Keystone, Colorado (elevation 9,200 feet), at the annual gathering of what we in Methodism called The Leading Edge:  the pastors of the 100 highest attended churches in the denomination.(Of those 100 churches, Good...

By now many of you have read or at least heard of Toxic Charity, Robert Lupton's tour de force on how churches and charities actually hurt the ones they most desire to help.You can read up on the book and the movement it is inspiring here.Well, a pair of highly...

It's U.S. Open time of year, which, if you like tennis, is probably the best time of them all.And having played/watched/followed tennis as long as I have, few things have altered the development of the game as much as changes in technology.  Rackets in...

As we announced during the August 4 worship gatherings and then again in our e-newsletter, John Pavlovitz is getting a new job without leaving our church.After eight highly impactful years as our Student Ministries Pastor, John will become our Pastor of Ministry...

Your home as a spiritual room temperature.So does mine.How does it get there and stay there?We'll discover together this Sunday.Sunday.8:30. 10.  11:30.

Before bed each night, I try to speak out a verse of Scripture . . . all so that, as the Navigators say, His Word is the Last Word.And recently I've been speaking out Galatians 2:20:I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The...

When she won an Oscar for her role in Places In The Heart, Sally Field gave what is for my money the best known acceptance speech of all time.And I have been thinking about that speech ever since I entered the world of Facebook a mere three weeks ago.But instead of...

As professional tennis makes its annual swing through North American cities on the way to the US Open, one stop is conspicuously missing this year:  Los Angeles.For over 100 years, the best tennis players in the world have played at least one annual event in that...