Rich Mullins, 20 years later

It hardly seems possible that 20 years ago this week the church lost Rich Mullins. A lot has been written and posted about him this week as the anniversary of his untimely death on September 19, 1997...

A Question of Survival

I recently had lunch with a good friend who, like myself, spent a large portion of his ministry career as a worship leader… and we have the battle scars to prove that we served churches who were in the...

Raising Unbiased Kids in a Bigoted W...

I started to title this post “Raising Color Blind Kids” but then I realized that is kind of silly. You can’t be color blind, nor would you want to be. When it comes to skin pigment, we are...

Worship Wars

Have you ever heard the phrase “Worship Wars”?  It is frequently used to describe what has happened in many of our churches over the last couple of decades as worship styles have changed. The two...

He Did That For Me

Theologians have a fancy phrase for it… they call it “Substitutionary Atonement.”  What it means in plain English is that Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for sin.  From the...

He Leadeth Me

We’ve all had this experience at some point in our lives: We are in an area that we are not familiar with; an area where if left to our own devices, we would get completely and thoroughly lost.  As you...