As a pastor, Christmas and Easter tends to pump up my adrenalin because so many new people attend. Our church averages around 1100 each Sunday and when these holidays come, our attendance more than doubles during our special holiday weekend services and performances This year our worship leader wrote a production that interwove themes of […]

Recently I was in a public school building and walked by a nicely decorated bulletin board nestled between student lockers. My eyes scanned it and something subconsciously struck me that caused me to stop, turn around, and look again. There is was, ranked right up with (or down with) National Cookie Day … the date

Meet Jim. He’s the average nice guy . . . good provider, loving husband, faithful church member, caring father. After work one day his wife of 20 years asks him to run to Safeway to pick up a gallon of milk. He replies, “Sure, honey. Be glad to.” Little did he expect, however, that this

I like to read, though I don’t read as much as I should. I’ll probably read 20 or so books a year and after a few days or weeks, much of what I read doesn’t do much for me. Not this book, though. Deep Church thoughtfully and gracefully written by Jim Belcher, is one that

I get a weekly email from a guy named Mac Anderson, founder of Simple Truths (www.simpletruths.com). In a recent one, he wrote this story that he heard from someone else. I’ve heard variations of it before, but it’s worth repeating. Here’s what he wrote as he retold the story. The older I get, the more