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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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Struggling for connection
Posted on March 14, 2008 | 1 CommentAre people really struggling to make connections? Is "authentic" community as big a deal as church leaders make it out to be? My friend Scott Bane is talking about these... -
The power and possibility of repentance
Posted on March 4, 2008 | 1 CommentOne of my favorite mentors used to say something like, "It’s time to get born again, again!" There is something powerful about that idea. The idea that we can choose... -
The story of the Skate Ranch, pt. 3
Posted on February 20, 2008 | No CommentsFor the perseverant among my readers, here is the third and final installment of the story of the skate ranch. Share -
The Story of the Skate Ranch, pt. 2
Posted on February 6, 2008 | No CommentsI am posting part 2 of three videos of me telling the story of the skate ranch. I wrote about this in November 2003 in an article on Next-Wave entitled,... -
The Story of the Skate Ranch, pt. 1
Posted on February 4, 2008 | No CommentsSome of my faithful readers know that when I closed the church I had been pastoring in Moreno Valley, California in 1998 that I became involved in a ministry to... -
Shouting fire in a full theater
Posted on October 6, 2007 | No CommentsI hate to even provide a link to this website, Pyromaniacs. The baby boomer in me loves their graphics! But then I read Phil Johnson’s October 25, 2006 post entitled... -
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...