Last night I had the pleasure of being a part of an event called, Loveology. It’s actually the title of a new book that my friend John Mark Comer wrote. I just sat on a Q&A panel for the event, but I endorsed the book and did so, not just because JM is my friend, but because I really believe in the book.…
I’ve had a few people ask me recently about how my kids are doing. In each of those conversations the question is always phrased a little differently, but they all have stemmed from a concern for how my children are handling being a pastor’s kid, or a “PK.”…
We can easily fall into the trap of only thinking about our position. It’s much tougher to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and process through what they are thinking or feeling. In hopes of helping us do that in one of the more sensitive areas of our culture, here are 6 questions I believe gay students are asking about us and our ministries: How is it possible for me to relate to Christians in a church context?…
When I teach at Colossae, I use something I call a “Thread.” The thread is the main point of the passage we are teaching, boiled down into a phrase or a very short sentence. On a fantastic week, if we’re honest about it, people will (maybe) embrace 1 thing they heard us say in our message. …
There are all sorts of ‘hot topics’ in our culture. In my opinion, as leaders, we need to be proactive in addressing these issues. Unfortunately, many times we tend to just let them come to us rather than proactively leading our people and equipping them to navigate conversations like: same-sex attraction/partnership gay marriage legalization of marijuana Then there are some other topics that we tend to just let go unaddressed in the church context like: the role of women in the church specific (defers from context to context) spiritual gifts navigating the church and state boundaries These are all issues that are too often left unaddressed, and therefore, they become “unspoken truths” that leave people to drown in their own assumptions. …
Companies and organizations often do “exit interviews” and they do so for many different reasons. But the biggest one is that they get really honest answers. They do this so they can learn, become better at what they do and more faithfully care for their employees.…
