I just returned from another youth mission trip, which meant that I was away from “normal” life and “normal” church for ten days. I’ve been on four of these trips with the youth, and every time, I return feeling that our normal church routine is lacking, and I find it hard to [...]

Wow.  When I started this blog, I didn’t think I’d wind up talking about the church so much, but that’s how it’s shaping up so far.  My goal with these posts isn’t to complain, but to diagnose, toward the end of, hopefully, working toward something better.  Again, I invite you to read the Prologue to [...]

If you haven’t read part one of this series, then please read at least the Prologue in that post, so that you will know what my objective is with these posts, and from what perspective they are written.

The senior pastor here where I work has a really great singing voice, and people [...]

Prologue to the Vital Signs Posts

Roughly ten years ago, my career shifted rather unexpectedly from “systems administrator” to “full time church employee.”  Once I started working for the church, I began to think a lot more than I ever had about just what the Church is, how we need to be functioning, and what [...]