Guerilla Ecclesiology
Church has to be more than just programs, strategem, cell groups, and services. If being the church is an idea that resonates with new testament christian spirituality [more so than…
Kinesthetic Spirituality
Kinesthetic spirituality is the understanding that our actions and our bodies play a role in our discipleship, that what we do actually matters to God and that He is concerned…
FILTERING FEEDBACK
I’ve gone down in flames many times while preaching, the worst of which involved a near-hallucination halfway through. It was a low crowd and I was a young man filling…
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…
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