A photo I took of my son over the weekend wound up on Chicago Public Radio’s website last Monday. That’s always cool! Around the same time last year they used a photo of my daughter taken at the same location. Anyway, this Friday Photo was taken in honor of my wife – who was out [...]
What do people mean when they say “cultural engagement?” That phrase is often spurned as if it means thoughtless syncretism between the church and culture. In my reading it rarely means that. It is certainly not what I mean. I am a fan of that three-fold approach to engaging culture: reject what is evil, receive [...]
My wife Jen is expecting our third child! We have been praying for years that God would give us more children, and he has helped us to remain patient until he gave us the desire of our hearts! Jen is 7 weeks along which means our newest looks something like the photo to the right. [...]
I finally got around to reading Mark Dever’s excellent little book, What is a Healthy Church? I’ll have a post up on the whole book soon, but I wanted to put up a couple of things he had to say. First, “If you’re thinking about leaving a church.”
Before You Decide to Leave
1. Pray.
2. Let your [...]
Unplugging is going well, but is also proving to be a ongoing process. My new approach to staying organized, a hack on GTD, is going very well and is a better fit than the Hispter PDA I was previously using. Have also been finding ways to leave the laptop behind, relegating my interaction with it [...]
I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship, husband to Jen, Dad to Katherine, Elias and Madeline - and the short, bald guy in Starbucks writing in a Moleskine journal.
