[I wrote this article for Relevant Magazine's online edition a few years back. It is no longer available online, so I am re-posting it here.] I have a friend who is in the midst of a separation from his wife. He’s hurting. We were talking in another friend’s kitchen tonight about all that is going …
Age Segmentation in Church Ministry
For five years I was the Collegiate Ministries Pastor at Elmbrook Church. In my work area (affectionately known as the West Wing) also resided the Middle School Pastor and the Senior High Pastor. Across the building, there was the 20-Somethings Pastor and the Children's Pastor. We also had a 30-Somethings ministry for awhile, not to …
Revealing?: reflections on Willow’s “Follow Me”
I’ve finally taken the chance to review the second book associated with Willow Creek’s Reveal study entitled Follow Me. Better late than never, they say, so I'm sending off some of my reflections here at the blog. Building off of the research from Reveal, this next part of the study looks at spiritual growth, what …
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Twitter – continuing the conversation
I continue to have a lot of conversations with friends and colleagues about the value and use of technology for ministry. That conversation inevitably touches on Twitter and its uses, whether personal or in ministry contexts. Some friends think it is a total waste of time (David Letterman?). Others think it's fun to follow interesting …
A Treasured Love Letter
Recently, I was thinking about the great treasure that the Scriptures are to us, but how often they seem less like a treasure and more like a dead weight we carry around. My junior year of college I went to Honduras with a group of students to help a local village install a gravity-fed water …
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