Jonathan Storment is preaching @ Otter Creek Church Sunday. I can’t wait to hear him encourage us to believe that Jesus throws the best parties. In that spirit . . .
I first met Anne outside a building near Cass Park, in Detroit, called “The Dog Pound.” The building, housing some fifty family units, got its [...]

I’m preparing for my last BBT class at Columbia Seminary (coming in July). If you peruse this blog much, you know how important Taylor has been to my formation as a human, writer, story-teller and preacher. I would dare say she has shaped me more than any other preacher/writer. Period.
Two of the books we’re reading [...]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer has, among others, been my teacher about what it looks like to keep the physical and spiritual realms connected in our life of discipleship. While living in New York because of fear of what Hilter’s Army would do to him and his challenge to their way of running the empire, he was convicted [...]

UPDATE: You can listen to my teaching from Sunday (Death’s Last Day) by clicking here.
Since I can remember, I’ve struggled intellectually with the resurrection of Jesus. Not that resurrection could happen, but, that resurrection did happen. After all, when’s the last time you witnessed someone raised from the dead (I still joke with some charismatic [...]

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 [...]