This week, I am preaching on Luke 24. Jesus finds the disciples in a state of confusion after he rises from the dead. No doubt, they are afraid, yet joyous; they believe, yet they doubt. John Stott puts it this way. His coming found them believing and unbelieving, startled and joyful and afraid all at [...]

We are moving along with our work on developing a process of discernment. However, the deeper I get in this process, the more complicated it seems. I am sure that we cannot pin this topic down to a commodified process. In the same way, agreeing on a system of practices seems helpful. This week, I [...]

I have been deep in Charles Cosgrove and Dennis Hatfield’s book Church Conflict: The Hidden Systems Behind the Fights the past two days. The work is extremely insightful. They state their purpose in the first chapter. Our thesis is that behind the official systems of local church (its offices, boards, committees, etc.) there is another [...]