In the past few days I read a book called The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani.  Apart from the content, I mostly wanted to read a book by a guy with such a great name.  But the content is compelling.  Don’t read it if you don’t want to be a little uncomfortable with the way we’ve been doing church the last 25 years. Read More>>

I remember as a kid sitting in church and wondering how and where my pastor got his sermons.  I somehow concluded that God came to my pastor’s office on Friday and personally delivered that week’s sermon.  Little did I know that many pastor’s are still praying on Saturday for God to give them a sermon.  In my childlike view of God and church, there was a sense of mystery. Read More>>

Every now and then we all need a good dose of “perspective”.  A few days ago I was preparing a message from an intriguing story in 2 Kings 7.  It is the story of 4 lepers sitting at the city gate of Samaria.  Surrounding the city is the Aramean army and rather than fight they decide to just cut off the supply lines to the city and starve them into submission.  There is a severe famine inside the city and the enemy outside the city. Read More>>