Church

Missional within a traditional setting

I’ve now been at Richview for over nine (!) years. The people there are amazing, and I’ve learned tons in this time. One of the tensions is that it is an established,

A renewed focus on what matters most

It started, really, with some of the work I did on my thesis. It began to crystalize with a sermon I heard late last year preached by a pastor in Charlotte who had

Fad-driven ministry

I’ve been pastoring long enough to have remembered many of the fads that hit the church. I have the evidence: I have books that belong to the time that certain fads were

Judge Rules in Sermon Sharing Scandal

Learn about the sordid tale that began with pastors stealing Tim Keller’s material and has led to the end of Southern Baptist church planting and the Christian blogosphere: After an intensive three

The problem with the church

The past couple of days, there’s been some reaction to a Brian McLaren’s Christmas letter.  Bene titled a post “Brian McLaren sells out?” based on a post at Today At the