Launching 14 community groups at our church today! Thank you, Practicing the Way, for the excellent materials and videos!

"I think we have for too long focused too much on the large gatherings and neglected the small ones. So, we, pastors, elders, and church leaders, have work to do on how to create better structures and equip our people to do church at home. [...]

I preached about doing justice as mission today. Here is a short exerpt: (link below)

"Thinking about injustice the pushback is often to say: I am not responsible. It’s not my fault that the store I shop treats it’s workers bad. :

My read for the long ride to Mexico. Our church is taking a team of 20 people on a week long trip to serve. Our youngest team member is 3 months old our oldest is 92. Pray fornus if you can!

One of the ways God limits the reign of evil (while still allowing the consequences of our rebellion to take place) is to confuse those who conspire to build the towers of Babel. Disunity among those who seek to oppress others is God's grace for the oppressed. Read Genesis 11!

I love finding creative ways to create a more participatory worship. At the end of my sermon, I invited our church to answer a question using Slido, and then I prayed based on the word cloud we created.

On a short trip in Hungary and I got to preach at two of my old churches. What a blessing!

Have you ever thought of moments of boredom as potential portals to prayer?

"Our worship services have integrity when they attune us to God's project, and when they align us with God's mission, in such a way that our lives as individual Christians and as Christian communities are invested in who God is and what God cares about and is doing." Alan & Elanor Kreider

This Psalm has been encouraging me lately. We often feel satisfied or dissatisfied at the end of the day, depending on how much work we have done. How awesome would it be if we would already be satisfied in the morning, and not by our own work but by God's faithful love? May we be glad today!

"So worship and mission are not to be conceived as two distinct activities, the one theocentric and the other anthropocentric; both are aspects of a single divine activity in which, through Christ, we are included" John G. Davies

Starting the new year with using my Christmas gifts. My desire and resolution is to pray more and pray in new ways. Thank you @wdavidotaylor.bsky.social and Pheadre Taylor for your beautiful work!

Finished teaching my first college course at William Jessup University. I learned a lot and got to connect with a lot of great students. It is such a blessing to be in Christian university environment.

I love podcasts. Such a great way to learn, and grow spiritually.
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"... if we don't deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly, we have no chance of attending to him at all at other times and in other places." Eugene Peterson

Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. No gifts, no pressure, no big ceremony, just good food, family and gratitude.

"Each of the faithful is called upon to continue a personal "liturgy" on the secret altar of his own heart, to realize a living proclamation of the good news "for the sake of the whole world". Without this continuation, the liturgy remains incomplete..." - Anastasios Yannoulatos

Bonhoeffer movie quick review:
-You can't capture a whole life in a 2 hour movie, especially a life like Bonhoeffer's
- I wish they would have captured his character better
-There were some beautiful scenes that made me tear up.
- Go read Bonhoeffer's books! I hope many people will.