One of the risks of public speaking is getting carried away by words. So this past Sunday, in reference to 1 Peter 3:15 I was talking about how Christians should be known as a people of “hope”. So far so good! But in the middle of encouraging my people to have hope I did a…
I have now been attending churches for over 40 years. And I have picked up a few things about church culture that I do not particularly appreciate. And most of the things that trouble me about church culture revolve around the subject of conformity to non-Biblical standards. As a child I picked up on these…
Somewhere between feeling like a hip and cutting edge church planter a few years ago and where I sit right now, I lost my mojo. I could go back and search along the history of the past few years to find it, but I am not sure it was all that I felt it was…
Guess what? Jesus is coming back!! Despite being a nation with a large percentage of people who would call themselves Christians, I wonder if I am in the minority of people who actually believe this is true. Ironically, it seems like there is always someone predicting His return is soon. Someone will tie his second…
I am a Christian Fundamentalist. Compared to most Americans and many self-professed Christians I take my faith ‘too seriously’. I adjust my daily routine to rise in the morning to read my Bible and pray (because I believe the Bible is fundamentally true). I am careful about what I watch on TV and what movies…
I am a church-planter turned pastor. Between our first meeting in April of 2009 and this day, ReCAST has grown from a church plant to a church. I am not sure how long you can call a church plant a church plant, because the reality is that every church was planted at some point, right?…
I climbed out of my cave a couple weeks ago and watched “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Barn Theater in Augusta, Michigan with my wife and kids. Having set my eyes on it for the first time I was completely intrigued and torn over the theme of tradition. I grew up in a household…
It seems like Christians make the news in one of two ways. Either they have a catastrophic moral failure or they say something that appears unintelligent and/or quaint in our postmodern society. But I would suggest that for every article highlighting a moral failure there are hundreds if not thousands of faithful servants seeking to…