Heim on Atonement

After spending the spring reading some missional literature, I’m finally getting to S. Mark Heim’s Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross. Honestly, my tribe doesn’t talk all that much about atonement theories. We figure God saved us and we’re pretty happy with that. Anyway, I thought I’d share some of the more thought [...]

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Coming Together

Looking back over Alan Roxburgh’s The Sky is Falling, I was again taken with his leadership typologies. Roxburgh is arguing that churches should move away from modernity’s sola pastora project and the myth of the great leader with great plans into a communitas where diverse roles are being met and people – what he calls [...]

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The Pastor’s Mystique

I read an interesting article last week written by Craig Groeschel, the pastor of LifeChurch.tv. LifeChurch.tv is an interesting place – several campus including one on the internet, but that’s not what interest me about Groeschel’s article in Leadership.
In the brief article, Groeschel mentions what one of his mentors called “the pastoral mystique.” He writes, [...]

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More “Did You Hear About…?”

Tonight I’m speaking at the Houston area Summer Youth Series. There should be about 800-1,000 students there tonight. I’m telling the grossest story ever, but it’s true and makes a great point, so I think it’ll work. ( A note to young speakers: You can’t tell bathroom stories until you get really good at it [...]

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The Family

I think the family is important! I think that the family, particularly husbands and wives, are a great metaphor for the God’s relationship with humankind. The family is the backbone of so much in our world and time, resources and energy should be put into it. But, do you ever wonder if the family has [...]

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reNewal

Recently, I posted a blog about leaving churches. People leave churches for a host of reasons, but one of the saddest is when folks feel their spiritual vitality fail and fade into distress or nothingness. This happens for a lot of reasons – some legitimate and some illegitimate. I don’t want to go into all [...]

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