I feel like every day someone asks me if I have plans to record a new album. Heaven Hear Us released in 2006. All of a sudden, it’s 2012. It’s a worthwhile question without an easy answer. Am I still a recording artist? How often do you have to make a record to still be one? [...]

We are doing a series on the book of Acts at the GN right now. It’s been pretty rockin. I’ve recognized one distinguishing characteristic of the early followers of Jesus – they were incredibly tenacious. By that, I mean they clearly had a message, and they weren’t afraid to bring it. Their witness was so [...]

We wrapped up the Sentralized conference this weekend. What an amazing time. God is certainly doing amazing things. So many people left with their hearts burdened for the world. Such evidence that God was at work. His heart is burdened the same way. I had a chance to gather the worship leaders for a brief [...]

Communicating vision to our worship teams is really important. Here is a recent thought that I emailed to our team. We’ve been in a season of downgrading the importance of the Celebration Service in an effort to stem the “consumerism” default we always wrestle with. The point there is to not consume our way to [...]

At this point in the conversation we’ve been having it’s probably worth it to go back to do some interpreting. For instance, what is “missional”? Add to that, what is the missional context? Great questions, eh? I’ll attempt to answer the context question next week. First, to clarify some confusion on the subject – missional [...]

Reposting this from Mike Breen’s blog earlier today. This explains the need to awaken the “missional impulse” that lies latent in Jesus followers today. This will set the context for more to come… By Mike Breen: “Here are some recent stats from the Barna Research group: 4,000 churches will close this year Only 1,500 churches [...]

When God is on the move everything gets shaken. Those of us in the missional conversation are seeing God expand the reign of his lordship and we are experiencing the rumbling of his Kingdom coming. That might sound poetic, but as it turns out – Lord Jesus can be a bit bullish in the church [...]

This conversation has been the fruit of all the stuff that has become somewhat of a “game changer” for me over the years. For a while, I’d been seeing how my gifts both encouraged the body of Christ to experience a relationship with Jesus, as well, at times I could see how certain ways that [...]

Adventure. This word keeps me up at night. If there is one thing that I want for my life, it would be something like one coin with two sides – significance and adventure. Jesus gives me both. As we’ve discussed, I don’t need to go one step further to search for significance – I just need [...]

Last week, the post was simply about two things—a young generation’s ache for significance, and their desire for adventure. I’ve been working with people in their 20’s and 30’s for over a decade now, and there is one thing that is absolutely clear to me about them—they want to live an extraordinary life. Nothing less [...]