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...

Something very small happened in between yesterday morning's worship gatherings.But it had a large impact.During the sermon itself, I used a demonstration involving Gatorade (the energy drink!) to show how it is that many moms and dads pour into parenting what they...

In terms of Master Bedroom luxury, there's good:There's better:And then there's best:But what does all this talk of Master Bedrooms have to do with children, households, and passing on the faith?To get that answer, Sunday.8:30.  10.  11:30. 

Some folks have been thoughtful enough to review The Storm Before The Calm over the last few days.Here's one from Amazon.And then Claude Kayler, the founding pastor of Good Shepherd and fellow Methodist blogger, offered his thoughts in a two-part review.You can...

Since my post yesterday was all about hymns, I thought I'd continue the trend today.Only today I want to focus in on a new hymn that is suddenly sitting in a seat of controversy:  In Christ Alone.  Now: "In Christ Alone" is really a glorious piece of music...

I am spending each evening this week preaching the annual revival services at Bethel United Methodist Church in Midland, North Carolina.Bethel's pastor, Mark Clontz, is a long-time friend of mine and we actually pastored the same two churches:  he served Mt....