I spend a lot of time analyzing, “teaching,” or “preaching,” or whatever you want to call it. I tend to spend about twenty hours a week preparing to teach on Sundays. Over the 15 years I’ve been teaching I’ve tried to grow in my effectiveness. A few key areas I’ve focused on are… Growing in [...]

Monday mornings are always a scary time for me. I know I’m going to be sorting through tons of e-mails in regard to my weekend message. I enjoy getting the feedback and sometimes going deeper with the conversations, but as you might imagine, I receive my fair share of nasty e-mails. However, every once in [...]

I was thinking about a statistic that I shared in yesterday’s message. It’s from the book unChristian where 61% of the respondents described Christianity as “confusing.” As a communicator this is deeply disturbing to me. When I first read it, I was kind of defensive. Well those individuals didn’t come to OUR church. They didn’t [...]