Apprentice 2 Jesus

Ministry

  • Let the Ground Shake

    A message I preached on Sunday, May 24, at Victory Assembly of God in Bonner Springs, KS. 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

  • This Sunday

    The power of segue… Not segway But who could resist? Read more

  • Youth Ministry as “Cheap Grace?”

    Scot McKnight gives some excerpts from an author named Andrew Root on the use of Bonhoeffer with youth. Root recommends taking some of Bonhoeffer’s essential ideas and utilizing them in discipling youth. (More HERE) He also gives a sober warning: It is possible that much of North American youth ministry is actually the perpetuation of… Read more

  • Fulfilling a dream

    I am now in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since I just arrived I have no real thoughts on the city or ministry, except to say when I took off from Minneapolis I was so immensely excited. It was such a fulfillment of prayer. And when I landed in Addis, I was overwhelmed with joy. It will… Read more

  • 20 for 20

    Over the past few weeks I have posted occasionally on Facebook and Twitter about my trip to Africa. More details are HERE. I am so grateful to those who have given and all who will pray this September when I go to Ethiopia. I am incredibly close to completing my fundraising for the plane ticket.… Read more

  • Spiritual Mothers

    It’s Mother’s Day, which apparently causes a lot of angst these days on Facebook and the blogosphere. It’s amazing what a card company can do by creating a holiday. This will be an opportunity today (and on Father’s Day) where I will take the opportunity to talk about spiritual parenting.  This past week we have dealt… Read more

  • Overwhelming Generosity

    This weekend I was at our district’s Equip Conference. In one main session the speaker, Scotty Gibbons, invited a volunteer youth leader to the front. Scotty had been talking about encouragement and using Barnabas and Mark as the example. At the end of the message Scotty randomly picked a youth volunteer to come up front… Read more

  • It’s not a “harvest” problem, it’s a “worker” problem

    When Jesus commissioned the 72 to go proclaim the Kingdom, he made an interesting observation. The harvest is huge. “It’s bigger than you can imagine.” His command isn’t to go “find” harvest. It’s to pray for more workers. This isn’t such a hard thing for believers in other countries to understand. In many countries where their… Read more

  • Living “in the moment” is like having ADHD Christianity

    In my particular “tribe” of Christianity, there are good things about the experiential. We really do believe, or want to believe, that we can pray for healing (for example) and healing is possible. A particular “downside” is we tend to live for the “event.” We live for that powerful moment in a church service, a… Read more