Randy Harris wrapped up our RHYTHM series at Otter Creek Church yesterday. It was a powerful morning. You can listen HERE. Enjoy the dance. (don’t get too hung up on title of video, apologies if it offends you)

Six years ago, I served as an assistant basketball coach at a university in Texas. The first week on the job, the head coach (my boss) walked into my office with the other assistant coach and declared, “Boys, we’re going on a road trip. We need to spend some time with each other out of [...]

UPDATE: Following the sermon/teaching Sunday @ Otter Creek Church on the role of mysticism and the Spirit in the life of deep spirituality . . .
I had lunch with a friend recently who told me he’d never experienced sleep paralysis prior to me talking about it. This is one of the danger about talking publicly [...]

I’ve posted something similar to this in the past. I sent this out recently to many of our leaders @ OC. John York preached on this yesterday for our community of faith.
We dance in rhythm with God when we keep the Sabbath. The reason we are called to take a day of rest is simple. [...]

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 [...]

Stephen King is arguably the most popular fiction writer in recent American memory. In his memoir/guide to becoming an effective writer, he warns the writer that might me tempted to shape their life around their craft instead of their craft around their life.
I suggest the metaphor works well for academicians, pastors, teachers, athletes, writers, and [...]

In an attempt to elaborate on what I wrote in the previous blog, here’s some more food for thought. I know some will get lost in the language, meaning, and logic . . . faith is not for the faint of heart. You have to work at it. I’ve always been suspicious of “the easy [...]