The Bible as an answer book

From Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell: The Bible is not pieces of information about God and Jesus and whatever else we take and apply to situations as we would a cookbook or an

James Grier on preaching in a postmodern culture

Spent the day at Heritage Seminary yesterday listening to James Grier talk about “Preaching in a Postmodern Culture”. This is a subject that could go horribly wrong if it fell into the wrong

Redemptively Discontent

My latest column at Christian Week: A funny thing happened a few years ago. I always assumed that people who complain about church have a bad attitude. One day, I began to listen

Rick McKinley: A beautiful and messy kingdom.

From Leadership Blog, a lab session with Rick McKinley at Catalyst: “As pastors, we are tempted to build the church,” he said. “So we send out postcards to targeted Zip codes and we