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Getting Free of Religion
14 May 2011 6:35 AM | No CommentsIn the early 90s for a couple of years I was an unpaid “Executive Pastor” of a denominational church. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not really...
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Early morning at the Lancaster Denny’s
28 April 2011 2:58 AM | No CommentsI have an important appearance in family law court this morning. Lancaster, CA is about 95 miles from my home in Rancho Belago, CA (the 92555 zip code of Moreno...
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I cried last night…
14 April 2011 4:28 AM | 1 CommentI cried last night. A close and dear friend and mentor of mine was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. The picture of health, my friend was scheduled right away for...
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Archive for January, 2006
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A bit more on emerging…
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsThere are many folks attempting to define and describe the "emerging" church. For a laugh you should take a look at the wikipedia definition. Unbelievably imprecise. How postmodern is that?... -
Praying with formulas
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsFrom Eugene Peterson’s The Message,Matthew, Chapter 6 Pray with Simplicity 7"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling... -
The Youth Pastor from Hades
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsI am not sure where Hades is, but it must be somewhere near the hometown of the youth pastor I recruited accidentally. I had been working on recruiting a worship... -
I was part of a missional community
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsIn 1989 I was burnt out, I was also a church drop out. Because a denominational church pastor was innovating and planting a contemporary church, I was invited, and attended... -
The two-year cycle
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsMy vocational life has had a two-year cycle. That’s about the longest I have stayed at any one vocation over my working life. Straight out of college I went into... -
Membership or the lack thereof
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsGroucho Marx said, "I’d never join a club that would have me as a member." These days I might say I’d never join a church that would have me as... -
Blame it on Carl George
Posted on January 6, 2006 | 1 CommentCarl George will have to shoulder some of the blame for my accidental pastorhood. The church I was involved with in 1990 was experiencing such hyper-growth that it was attracting... -
Building a spiritual labor and delivery room
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsI have a 33-yr.-old son and a 3-yr.-old son. When my oldest son was born, having fathers in the delivery room was rare and it never happened during a C-section.... -
The 800 lb. gorilla
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsMost leaders don’t realize that they are an 800 lb. gorilla. They think that they are normal human beings. They can say and do what they feel like saying or... -
The business of church…
Posted on January 6, 2006 | No CommentsI have a personality defect, I confess, it is true. I find it hard to work and play with others. If I am in a situation where, for whatever reason,...