I am sitting in my office at 6:45am right now and I got here 25 minutes ago. I like to get to church really early on the days I preach. I look over my notes and my PowerPoint one last time. I practice my “talk” one more time out loud. I love the method of [...]

I’m giving a three-minute talk on one of the Seven Last Words of Christ tonight for our Good Friday service. We are having a bunch of contemplative worship, 7 mini-sermons by different pastors on these last words that we are calling Famous Last Words. We will have the first four pastors sitting on stools on [...]

Right now I’m in the middle of my morning of sabbath and I thought I would type a quick post. I just got back from going surfing down at 41st St in Newport Beach. I had an awesome time today. Last week I seriously sucked. I haven’t got a new board yet, but today I [...]

So I had lunch with Mike Erre today – the teaching pastor of ROCKharbor. That guy is a complete stud. We are meeting about four times a year in a sort-of-mentoring relationship. He has helped me with teaching preparation and thinking creatively about teaching and church strategy issues in the environment I am in where [...]

So I left on Friday afternoon for our church’s Men’s Retreat. It was a Wild at Heart theme with a couple people from John Eldredge’s team coming to do the speaking – one of which is Bart Hansen who is a member/former elder of our church. It was pretty cool actually. I usually think the [...]

I spoke this morning in our Elevation service and I’m feeling the afternoon exhaustion of preaching. I only have to do one service and I go home super tired. Somebody told me once that 15 minutes of public speaking equals an 8 hour day worth of energy. I only spoke for 35 minutes so that’s [...]

(please make sure you read disclaimer at bottom before leaving page) Positives of Camping Ministry:Away from distractions and some temptationsFocus on God in natureTime for relational ministryAwesome camp staff who love students and care for the youth pastorsQuality time for worshipFun Negatives of Camping Ministry:So much focus on “hooking up” by kidsAnnoying 19-year-old camp lead counselors that [...]

We just watched the movie Invincible and I loved it. I love football movies and true stories are always cool. This was a nice bit of entertainment for the evening. Then we played a little MarioKart on the GameCube I “bought Bea” for Christmas. You like that? I spent the morning working on talks for [...]