The Blessing Pipeline

A few Sundays ago I taught on something called “the Blessing Pipeline”. It was a conceptual crystallization for me after much reflection on the theological concepts of Blessing and Covenant. It all began for me with the experience universally shared by all sooner or later – the sense of being stuck in my life. That

Don’t Leave Your Marriage Before You Leave Your Marriage: 3 Things To Improve It

As I shared in a recent talk, church planting has been challenging to my marriage, only for me to come to the realization that my wife is the fount of all my ministry, life, and work. SHE is the Fount. Without her, nothing. And so if I am not present as a husband and placing

Why Does My Faith Feel So Dry? 3 Things That Might Be Wrong:

At Woven, we’ve started a series of teachings on prayer that have been examining the soul and probing deep within my spirit as well. Over 15 years ago I suffered an experience that shut my prayer life down overnight and forced me

10 Things To Do Before I Die.

I annually re-post this as reminder to fix my eyes on the prize: Ten Things To Do Before I Die: 1. End genocide. 2. Stabilize the Middle East. 3. Master a foreign language. 4. Eradicate one disease, pathogen or virus. 5. Alleviate unnecessary human suffering. 6. Write one well-written and scholarly book. 7. Promote racial

The Gospel & Star Wars

Thirty years ago, when I was about seven, my dad took me to a late-night showing of Return of the Jedi, at the old-time movie palace landmark RKO Keith at the end of Main St., where cobblestone still lined the center of Northern Blvd. I remember, at the movie’s close, walking out into the night