Heath Bradley, the Teaching Pastor at Pulaski Heights UMC in Little Rock, recently came up with what I believe is the best summary of the differences between theological conservatives and progressives.  Ever.  Here it is:Conservatives tend to be more...

I have to admit it:  Don Henley is my favorite musical artist of them all.As much as I love U2, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones, I love Don Henley even more.  It doesn't make any sense -- I know he's not as influential or as...

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...