Years ago on a ski trip I accidently took the wrong trail and found myself at the top of a triple diamond run.  Standing at the top of what seemed like the peek of death I wondered how in the heck I was going to make it downs such a steep run.  As I was standing there contemplating my death a young boy probably 8 years old said “you’ve just got to do it!”  Needless to say that wasn’t what I wanted...

If you’ve been involved in ministry for any length of time then you’ve probably been hurt by someone.  For some people it might have been something that was easy to get over and move on to the next thing.  For others, the hurts were deeper and left scars which limit your ability to trust. For me, the hurts in ministry were overwhelming.  The results created division in the church, in my family...

I was going through some old files the other day and came across a bunch of notes from some worship conferences I attended a few years ago.  As I leafed through all my chicken scratch and half legible note taking, I started to laugh.  Nothing I had written down had to do with my growth as a worship pastor.  It was all about what worked and what failed in various churches that were participating in the conference....

I tend to think differently about most things.  If something has been done one way for 100 years, I think to myself “how boring doing this over and over and over the same way”.  My first instinct is to want to make changes. In a traditional environment, this kind of thinking can get me into trouble.  But in this setting, I think I’m safe… All that being said… I’ve been thinking...