2020—What a year it’s been, huh? The trouble is, we have not assurance that 2021 will be much better. Yet here we are waiting. Waiting...

How do pastors decide what to say about current events and social issues? As the story goes, both Karl Barth and Billy Graham said...

What do we do with the pain of the world? We enter in it and groan. That is what the Son of God did. And that is what the Spirit of God...

Over the past few months, friends have told me that they are reading “Blessed Broken Given” with their small group at church or with a...

Earlier this year, Integrity Music release a 5-day devotional that I had written to accompany a wonderful new instrumental album called...

24/7 Prayer, an amazing movement and ministry led by Pete Greig, has launched their Advent video devotionals. These are wonderful, 3-4...

What are the repeated critiques you hear about modern worship? It is so noisy. And why is every bridge a monosyllabic chant? (eg....

Every once awhile, I am asked what our liturgy is at New Life Downtown. Our service flow (in general) can be found HERE. But the most...

Ever wonder what we sing about? Lester Ruth, Research Professor of Christian Worship at Duke Divinity School, decided to find out. Ruth...

One of the main reasons we gather as the people of God is to remind ourselves of who God is, what He has done to make us His people, and...

In Part 1 of this blog series, we said that in order to answer the question of “who the Church is”, we needed to first ask who Jesus is,...

What is “Church“? Who is Church for? The lost? The disciple? What are Sundays for? Many pastors jump right to the Great Commission and...

For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: A few posts ago, I started the conversation about what our worship songs communicate about God and why that matters....

What does our culture think of evil? Why do we pretend it doesn't exist until it hits us in the face? And what has God done about it? Is...

But it seems that some churches aren't looking for that. They would prefer a musician who can lead the "singing", oversee the tech team,...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: As a follow-up to my last post, here is a slightly adapted excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Secondhand Jesus". If you like, you...

But I was clueless. I had no idea the way I would be drawn aside by own ego, fooled by opportunities and so-called fame. I was...