Tag: discipleship

Easter Service?
As a kid, I remember Easter being one of the two Sundays a year that my dad went to church. In fact, looking around the sanctuary, I probably was not the only kid who appreciated this occurrence involving their own fathers. Year after year, the Easter service filled up with face after face of people I… Read More ›

Follow Jesus?
I was an early adopter of Twitter back when MySpace was dying. Yeah, I know… I’m old. It was so cool back before everyone knew about it. I could follow people; they could follow me (and, alas, they could “unfollow” me, too). I could read about when people were at the movies or when they… Read More ›

Vs.
The first rule of Fight Club? You don’t talk about fight club. But I’m going to talk about it. I have to. I want to talk about the way a mother told her daughter not to talk to my daughter because of the church our family attended. I want to talk about the way pastors… Read More ›

Here’s Your Sign
I saw this church sign yesterday. It simply asked, “What could this sign say to get you here Sunday?” My first thought was, “Free Beer.” (Laugh, but it would probably work). Joking aside, the sign left me with an uneasy feeling – not about that church in particular, but about our church culture in general…. Read More ›