[EDITOR’S NOTE: My friend Kevin Tan lost his life while saving one of his clients from drowining. Kevin was part of an adventure company...

Today is All Saints’ Day. I used to never think of it that way. It was just the day that Starbucks brings out their red cups. Besides, I,...

[This is a rough sketch of the talk I gave at SALT 2013, a conference for church worship/creative arts/tech/media teams. The above visual...

Next week, with fear and trepidation, I will be presenting a paper at an academic conference on congregational music at Ripon College,...

We stood for most of the two-hour service. The only time they instructed us to sit was during the priest’s homily. Even then, there were...

I’ve been writing for a bit now on how worship–specifically, corporate worship– forms us as the people of God. The central idea of my...

When we reduce discussions about worship forms to simply matters of style, we miss a crucial aspect of corporate worship: worship forms...

Nothing. It may surprise you, but I don’t think all churches should “go liturgical.” That’s missing the point. Too often, discussion on...

One of the main reasons we gather as the people of God is to remind ourselves of who God is, what He has done to make us His people, and...

In Part 1 of this blog series, we said that in order to answer the question of “who the Church is”, we needed to first ask who Jesus is,...

What is “Church“? Who is Church for? The lost? The disciple? What are Sundays for? Many pastors jump right to the Great Commission and...

There is no escaping the fact that the Old Testament contains many troubling stories of violence, genocide, and even one famous story of...

For the longest time, I thought “Advent” was just a fancy word for “the Christmas season,” a holier, maybe more spiritual-sounding word...

It’s been almost 500 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church. Yet, there are many...

A prayerbook that has been helpful to my wife and I in our journey is a book, called "Seeking God's Face". It leads you in praying a...

For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...

“Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: ‘You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests’… “…As the Beloved, I...

Imagine that I told you I had paid for you to spend next summer in France. But it wouldn't be in Paris where there are lots of tourists;...

I saw a prominent pastor tweet a link to a CNN article on "virtual preaching." For him, it was a triumph. Look, even CNN recognizes this...

I don’t read much for pure inspiration or for raw information. I read mostly to shape my imagination. This year, my reading list has been...