Headed to Forest Home…

In a couple of hours I’ll be leaving with a group of about 30 college-aged people from New Song for Briefing ‘O8 at Forest Home.  This will be my third time attending the event (second time as a ministry leader), and I’m really looking forward to it.  Forest Home always does a fantastic job with [...]

Justice is coming…

I recently started reading David Batstone’s book Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade- and How We Can Fight It. I’m reading the book in preparation for a series called “Justice: The Voice of The Prophets” that we’ll be starting at Seven24 on September 7th (read the last paragraph of this post). [...]

Donald Miller’s pre-benediction interview

The gentleman who commented on my previous post about Donald Miller’s benediction at the Democratic National Convention directed me to this short interview with Donald Miller that took place shortly before his appearance on stage. The video was originally done by Sarah Pulliam for Christianity Today. It’s only about four minutes long, but it’s [...]

Donald Miller at the DNC

On Monday night Donald Miller, one of my favorite authors, gave the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Here’s the video:

I thought he did a really wonderful job, and the whole text of the prayer can be found on his website (which I link to above). [...]

Salespeople for Jesus

I particularly liked this paragraph out of Emerging Churches (a book I am currently reading for school):
“Dave Sutton (New Duffryn Community Church, Newport, U.K.), is critical of Christians who make a gospel presentation, seek a response, and then leave that person to go to the next one. “It can’t be about how many you converted this [...]

Wrapping up “10 Big Questions”

Last night at Seven24 we concluded our summer series “10 Big Questions”.  During the spring we had given people the opportunity to submit questions either via facebook or via their connection card at the service, and then we went through a selected different questions to talk about during the course of the summer.  As I [...]

I can’t believe this is real…”Make Me A Christian” reality TV show

So I’m up watching the Olympic basketball gold medal game, and I just stumbled across this article from Christianity Today. Apparently there is a real reality show in Britain entitled Make Me A Christian , and it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. A British preacher who is also a political activist [...]

Tiger walks on water

As if his amazing U.S. Open triumph back in June, wasn’t enough…

In search of an honest country…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been glued to the T.V. since the Olympics have started. My typical evening has actually gone something like this: Get home around 8 and eat dinner with my wife, turn on the Olympics around 8:45, put them on mute while I read or work on the computer, [...]

McCain and Obama at Saddleback

This is a little bit late, but I wanted to put together some thoughts from the Saddleback Civil Forum that took place this last Saturday at Saddleback Church featuring John McCain, Barack Obama, and Rick Warren. The event was the first time Obama and McCain had appeared together on the same stage since beginning their [...]