Westwinds’ Video about my Post Doctoral Fellowship
Westwinds is an incredible place, full of beautiful people. I’m very happy here and am grateful to God for all he has allowed my family to enjoy. When I first…
THINKING ABOUT THE CHURCH I SEE
I recently returned from the Hillsong Conference in NYC, where I heard one throwaway comment by Lead Pastor of Hillsong Global, Brian Houston—a man I have long admired. He referred…
5 WAYS TO PASTOR VOLUNTEERS
Over the years I’ve become expert at deciding what to do, but not necessarily how it should be done. It’s been a challenge for me, since the “how” is often…
RE-CREATING THE STORY
For the last 50 years we’ve been reading the Bible as the Story of God’s plan to heal the world. In this meta-narrative, Christ is the protagonist and the rest…
FOUR KINDS OF GAMES
In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s remarkable book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, he identifies four kinds of games: agon, alea, mimicry, and ilinx. Having spent considerable time over the last few…
Trying out a new social media strategy…
My friend Stephanie is a social media theorist and content strategist. I think. She does something fancy with I.T. (you know, “internet things”) and suggested Westwinds tweak our existing social…
Ministry is like lifeguarding
Ministry is like lifeguarding. It’s an old comparison, but an appropriate one. The recent shark attacks in North Carolina remind me that the job of the lifeguard is not to…
capacity, part two
Realizing you’ve hit the ceiling on your ministerial effectiveness can be pretty depressing. We all have dreams of reaching thousands and thousands of people for Jesus. We all want to…
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