Archive for May, 2007

Dealing with our past

I was sitting in the Edwards Cinema in Boise, Idaho when a thought struck me. Isn’t a big part of our life journey learning how to live with our past?
I am moving this month after living within a four-block radius for over 25 years. My life is filled with memories in my neighborhood. I have […]

I am presenting a series on the Ten Commandments. It’s titled – "Every Truth is Inconvenient." The ten commandments are the bedrock of the Christian pilgrimage if seen through the eyes of grace. They are actually prophecies for we believers.
The third command has my particular interest right now.
You shall not misuse the name of […]

A prerequisite to God’s work is “hope.” Many people I know resist receiving Christ because they don’t believe any difference will occur. They are afraid of disappointment.
The first step to our receiving anything from Christ is deploying hope in our hearts. We have to first have the hope that something will occur before we can […]

Why are we bothered by trauma, pain and evil?
 
I was closing down a church plant I have been working at for the last nearly two years. Lori and I are painfully and joyously relocating to Boise, Idaho. We will be taking on leadership of New Heights Church there and continuing to lead Square One […]

This is the million-dollar question regarding the boomers, how will they finish? Will they finish well? Do we boomers see that our cough becomes pneumonia?
It is likely that boomer Christian leaders will take on greater impact than those we have seen from past generations. We already know boomers are going to have to work longer […]