I’ve been teaching on spiritual disciplines as evangelism at Otter Creek the last four weeks. Tomorrow, I’m going to teach (with a friend) on the power of confession.
The tendency in many confessions (public/private; religious/secular) is for the one confessing to tell the amount of truth necessary to convince the audience of a contrite heart without [...]

Here’s one of the reasons I am passionate about spiritual disciplines. Click here for a teaching on sabbath rest.
Jews do these things with more attention and wisdom not because they are more righteous nor because God likes them better, but rather because doing, because action, sits at the center of Judaism. Practice is to Judaism [...]

Love this image from N.T. Wright (Simply Christian, 39-40)
“One day, rummaging through a dusty old attic in a small Austrian town, a collector comes across a faded manuscript containing many pages of music. It is written for the piano. Curious, he takes it to a dealer. The dealer phones a friend, who appears half an [...]

As I’m preparing to start a new series at Otter Creek this morning (Following Jesus), I have been thinking about this conversation I had with Brian McLaren about a year ago.

“Well . . . it’s a door . . . but it’s not a door. You know what I mean.” This is just too perfect. My friend, Adam Hill, one of the best teachers of N.T. Christianity I know, showed this to me.

Assumption: Post-moderns would never go door knocking.
Not so fast.
For the last two years, I’ve heard a whisper as I drive down Avon Road coming/going to the synagogue (a.k.a. the Rochester Church building) . . . “What does it look like to live locally for Jesus? What does it look like to live locally here, in [...]