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  • White. Male. Evangelical. Pentecostal.

    A CALL TO AMERICAN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS I very rarely read a book than once. Outside of the Bible, there are a handful I’ve made a second attempt at. Beyond that, it’s been Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy and one more: Thomas Merton’s autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain. Those of you who read me enough think I’m a Willard… Read more

  • Progression isn’t always good

    “Modernity is above all things convinced… that is owes nothing to the past, that it has made itself, that what matters most is what is happening right now. Indeed, this is the meaning of the freedom, power, and progress that we all prize.” — Michael Allen Gillespie quoted in Theology as Retrieval.  This actually has a… Read more

  • Being “on mission”

    I am revisiting Briggs and Hyatt’s book on Eldership and find myself challenged by the lead question: “How would you define ministry?” The working answer for Briggs and Hyatt: meeting people where they are and journeying with them to where God wants them to be.  They have a list of what ministry is not to reaffirm that definition: It… Read more

  • Year 49

    I’ve contemplated this year… for all of 5 minutes. In this year: We will have relocated our church and relaunched ministry,  welcomed our second daughter in law to the family,  and become a grandpa. Quite the year I’m find myself halfway through. Read more

  • The next thing for Heights Church

    You can help! Please consider donating in this transition time for our church. CLICK HERE to find the “DONATE” button. Thank you for your gift.   Read more

  • Reflections on a church move

    Our church property is sold and we close on June 9. We will have temporary use of our building on Sundays and Wednesdays for 90 days. While the move is something we have sensed as the leading of the Lord, the sudden movement of cleaning things out has hit me. I am excited for the… Read more

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  • David’s Mighty Men

    I am prayerfully walking through 2 Samuel now as I look at spiritual warfare. In Chapter 23 there is the story of David’s mighty men. Amazing heroes who would go the distance for David. They caught his heart, loved him, and would battle anyone anywhere on his behalf. I think of that and am deeply… Read more

  • Thanks. I needed that.

    Mark Batterson in his book The Grave Robber put it this way: Sometimes we need someone to silly-slap us! We need some tough love applied. Probably 25 years or more ago I sat at breakfast with a man I wanted to learn from. I was new in ministry and a habit I was establishing at the time… Read more

  • The church is the hope of the world

    Ben Witherington interviews Scot McKnight on McKnight’s new book, A Fellowship of Differents. The interviews I’ve read sound great. This interview in particular draws out a connection between Christ and his Church I think we keep wanting to lose in our American culture. We have too much of this, “I love Jesus, but can’t stand his… Read more