I always have to remind myself that my faith is not one in an isolated bubble without any influence from anyone else. I always have to remind myself that I am standing on the shoulders of the giants of the faith who have gone before me. There have been great men and women of God who have gone...

I’ve been thinking a lot about L.A. a lot recently. Better yet I find a lot of my prayers and hearts call is turning towards the city of L.A. This all started from having a conversation with Dan. We talked about the possibility of planting a church out in LA in the future. Both of us...

After my last blog about developing a theology of art, I received a response by my good friend Steven. I really appreciate his comments and his push back because they challenged me to think deeper about the Christianity and culture. It’s been almost a week since I last updated this blog,...

I’ve been reading through Redeemers Church Planters Manual recently. It is a personal dream of mine to plant of church in an urban setting with the intention of cultural transformation through a Gospel centric ministry. Instead of simply dreaming and waiting for it to fall in my lap,...

Early Monday morning Jesus rides out towards the Temple. The curiosity of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to rise. Was he heading into the Temple to sit on His throne as the Messiah, the King of the Jews? Was He going to expel the Gentile oppression from the Temple and from the city? Was He...

It’s that time for bottom feeding bloggers, like myself, to weigh in on the whole Rob Bell, “Love Wins”  craziness. Ok so maybe I won’t weigh in yet because I haven’t finished reading the book. But what I do want to talk about is the comments that I’ve been...

The purpose of this series is: I am looking for a way to embrace the solid Biblical tradition of the past, while all the while pushing forward into what it might look like for the Church today. I am not willing to neglect the realities of the gifts nor am I willing to elevate them into a place...

Resurgence In the previous entry of this series I started to look at the two major movements within the Evangelicalism that has greatly impacted me. The first was the Charismatic Renewal of the 80′s-90′s. The Charismatic Renewal brought back to the church the realities of the Gifts...

For the nearly 20 years that I’ve been a follower of Christ it seems as if there has been two major movements within the Evangelical Church in America (this is strictly my opinion stemming from a subjective observation). These two movements have definitely shaped who I am as a believer...

For the past 2 years, I’ve been the head of an English Ministry church plant. Anyone who has ever said that church planting was easy was a flat out liar. It’s is difficult road to walk. But with all the challenges the at come with it, there is a lot of freedom to re-imagine,...