Maturity starts with understanding our place in God’s world. We are his creation and everything we are becoming finds its genesis in him. Everything Jesus taught, lived, and died for should become our...  Read More

Let’s say you are thinking about starting a microchurch. You have a group of friends and neighbors that are interested. Maybe you’ve even had a meal or two with these people and talked about doing it ...  Read More

Covid-19 has accelerated a trend towards defining life in digital space where reality can be self-generated and we can become our own god. As followers of Jesus who define their lives according to the...  Read More

The celebrations of the Bible were designed by God to do two things: honor God and invite the outcasts of society into God’s family. They were to have more purpose than to make the host look good. I d...  Read More

If churches took Jesus seriously at his word, they would be consumed with training their congregations to live as lambs in a world full of wolves. Instead of elevating the few who are called to minist...  Read More

Have you ever noticed that the Temple always got Jesus and His disciples in trouble? Jesus drove out the money-changers from the Temple courts, but if you think that was just about economics, you woul...  Read More

Historically, when the church faces insurmountable natural forces and dreams of influence die, it goes back to its roots. This is called renewal. I believe we are in one of those periods now. Make no ...  Read More

Although we could spend a lifetime and barely scratch the surface of the historical, literary, and theological dimensions of Scripture- for most of us, we just want to hear what God has to say....  Read More