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The Family God Uses – a book review
About the Book The divide between generations has never been greater. In The Family God Uses, the Blackaby family provides churches and families with a tool to intentionally bring families back...
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Shaking Up Our World with… Hospitality
Hospitality has been on my mind a lot lately. I mean ‘a lot!’ Rarely a day has gone by in the past three to four weeks where I haven’t either thought about it or been made to think about it. A book I...
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A Little About a Few Things
Well, here it is, nearly one month into spring in Minnesota, April 11, and this is what things looked like out our window this morning: Weather is not a bother to me. However, I can’t say the same for...
View ArticleThe Church Is…
…a family. This is something I learned some particularly fascinating insights at our North Central District of the E.F.C.A. last week. Joe Hellerman was the keynote speaker. Hellerman is a full-time...
View ArticleA Little About A Lot, Part Deaux
Well, this week’s not turning out like I thought it would…but that’s okay. It’s been wonderful…just not as planned. Ever have one of those? ___________________________________________ Discipleship I’m...
View ArticleWednesday Wanderings
Belonging. This evening, at Cornerstone, the elders will be conducting a few membership interviews. People will come, appear before the elders (two of the three of us), share some of their life with...
View ArticleMonday Meanderings In My Mind
We have several in our congregation at Cornerstone who will often tell me how much they love their church. It seems there’s always something different each week: the people, the sermon, the singing,...
View ArticleCan You Show Me the Way to the Nearest Burn Unit?
Carl Trueman does it again. God has not seen fit to give me a mind like Prof. Truman’s and that’s probably a good thing. My sinful sarcasm and cynicism would surely get me harmed or worse! Carl...
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The Hunted Hare by Fay Sampson – a book review
My Review – I don’t “do” mysteries very well. I’m all to prone to jump to the end to see “whodunnit” before I’ve finished the third chapter! Awful, I know, especially to those of you who really enjoy...
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Monday Morning Pastor-Back…I’m Back!
Good, good morning, everyone! Fresh off two weeks vacation, I’m…still off? Well, of course. It’s Labor Day, which means we honor and celebrate work by…you guessed it: NOT WORKING! And, since I was...
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Monday Morning Pastor-Back
Frank: Did you see the tail-gating going on before the service started? Dandy Don: I did, Frank. The hubbub from the conversation was filling the whole place, it seemed. Howard: As I perambulated...
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Fields of the Fatherless by Elaine Cooper
About the Book – In the early months of 1775, war is brewing in the American colonies. Although frightened, eighteen-year-old Betsy Russell of Menotomy Village, Massachusetts, wants to be prepared in...
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Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation
About the Book – When thinking about Christ’s birth, we often focus our attention on Luke’s detailed gospel account. But to appreciate the main point of the story—that the eternal Son of God assumed...
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A Better December: Proverbs to Brighten Christmas
About the Book – Know someone FRAZZLED or SAD this Christmas? A Better December by Steve Estes applies Solomon’s Proverbs to holiday stresses. Playful and tiny, this illustrated work would be a good...
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Monday Morning Pastor-back
Advent is in full swing. Carols are being sung right and left. And the children sang in the Worship Service yesterday. What a fine job they did. No performances. No dramas. Definitely no bathrobe...
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Ordinary People Like Ordinary Days…
…and other things. Okay, here’s the deal: I’m ordinary. Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe for those who know me well, but there it is. I’m out and its wild: I’m ordinary and proud of it. Thing is, I...
View ArticleChristmas Longings
Anticipation. So strong he could taste it. The desire, the longing, the pull. It nearly consumed him. He’d been waiting for what seemed like months. It was all so carefully planned out. He’d made his...
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Monday Morning Pastor-back
For 28 of 29 years in ministry, the Sorensen family has taken the week between Christmas and New Year’s off and this year was not the exception (don’t ask about that exception year…I was simply...
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Tuesday Tumbler: Prayer, Vacation and True Rest
I’ve just returned from a prayer retreat with some other pastors and it was a good experience. This is the 4th or 5th time this group has gotten together and the experience has been different each...
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Monday Meanderings
Still on vacation for a few more days, although today, we start our trek toward home, leaving Virginia and going a bit over halfway home. It’s been a great time. Lots of laughter (as always with Ann’s...
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