Accountability: what is it and do I need it?

Fallen- is what we are; falling is what we are do.  Preventing the fall is what we need to do and learning from our falls is what we can do. I embrace, with humility, my own fallen human nature and my proclivity to fall again and again into sin and stupidity. I would love it if I could live in relationship with people who truly, genuinely want to see and bring the best out in me.  I hope that...

God N Community

I start a new mini message series today on the value of Christian community, within a larger series called The Journey.  The Journey that we take when we enter into relationship with Christ is never boring and always a challenging adventure, or I would bet you are  not living the faith fully.  As they use to tell us in football, “leave it all on the field.”  Translated= hold...

Haiti on our hearts

It has taken me some time to write this blog regarding Haiti’s recent earthquake.  I have been in a state of shock.  I think I kept hoping they would find massive number of people under pockets of concrete surviving.  I been amazed by the stories and have hurt for the losses that keep compounding.  I want my words to be brief, but my actions and love to be loud (1 John 3:17-18) . ...

Miracle Peanut Butter

“Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord, and He will give a reward to the lender”-Proverbs 19:17 You know the amazing thing with studying the Scriptures, you can read a text a 100 times and on the 101st time a verse or truth jump off the page and like some flashing LED lights on Time Square.  You want to ask, where have you been hiding all my life?  I had one of those LED...

Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage a New Flat World

Glocalization is the “seamless integration between the local and the global,” according to the author Bob Roberts, Pastor and catalytic leader with a holistic mission approach to Christian faith and community development.  The term “glocal,” which is the key word of this work, originated in the 1990’s from Scottish sociologist Roland Robertson.  The term was introduced to Christian...