New Blog, reteach.me, now online
If your experience is anything like mine, then you realize that there’s no way that formal training alone can equip you to handle the real-life complexities of ministry in the local church. After getting involved full-time in ministry, I had
My Story Featured on CFCC Labs
Recently my story was featured by The Center for Church Communication, which I rely upon a great deal. While there is still lots of work to be done (isn’t there always?), God has been granting me favor in improving the
The Taste of Foot
Ever put your foot in your mouth? Hopefully the taste of my own foot is becoming fainter and fainter as I continue on this walk with Christ, but every now and then I still get to enjoy that juicy flavor.
Buckets and Buckets
I just got back from a great week of vacation in my old stomping grounds in Spokane / Coeur d’Alene, where we lived for six years. As almost any good vacationing family would do in that area in the summer,
Anyway
Needed to read this today. The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are
Anger: Friend or Foe?
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Would you trust a cobra to watch your baby? As crazy as that sounds, I have been every bit as crazy. What makes me that crazy? Anger. So often I have accepted my own anger as the ultimate reality. How
Why Should God Answer Your Prayer?
Our two-year-old is learning how to go potty on the toilet. To incentivize this skill, we reward him with Skittles when he makes it happen on the big boy potty. To my great delight, he told me he needed to
Didn’t Even See It Coming
As much as I like to be right (and I usually am…at least when it comes to useless pieces of trivia), sometimes I have argued until I’m blue in the face and later it turns out I was just plain
If God Were Your Spouse
I recently wrote about how I was such a smashing success on Valentine’s Day. (Hopefully your sarcasm radar is going off.) The problem was that I did not communicate my love for my wife in a way that connected with
Faith That…Well…Sucks
Sometimes I amaze myself. That is, sometimes I can’t believe how easily I lose my cool, say something I regret or really blow it–and just when I thought I had it all together! But sometimes I see someone do something