This past Sunday, churches all over the world celebrated the birth of the church in remembering Pentecost. I love being a part of the global Jesus Movement.
Jesus ascended to heaven so heaven won’t be so surprised when we get there. Jesus’ holiness explodes all around, drenching the disciples. Judas’ replacement has been chosen. Matthias will, [...]

Paul dropped by my office not too long ago. I get drop-ins all the time. It’s one of my great daily challenges—to remember to be glad to see someone when I have a list of ten things to do and five people to call. I’m slow in learning that actual ministry usually happens when I [...]

Most people don’t love any wedding video. They love their wedding videos. My teammate in ministry, David Rubio, pointed this out at our OC minister/staff retreat a few weeks back. We were discussing Donald Miller’s new book (which most of us had read prior) and the implications of what it would look like for Otter [...]

Donald Miller is back. I don’t know where he went. What he was doing. But he’s back. Back as in Blue-Like-Jazz-Back. In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Miller takes the reader through the journey of writing a script based upon his life (with some of the key stories from Blue Like Jazz). The [...]

Eugene Peterson believes that the task of being a Christian in our world today is intricately connected to the words that fall from our lips. Whether we preach in front of a community of faith, or offer a word of hope to a co-worker caught in the trappings of addiction and denial, the words we [...]