The leadership of my church recently held a forum where they answered concerns about RockHarbor being an Emergent Church.  I think they did a great job of illuminating the topic and identifying a number of different camps in the always ambiguous Emerging/Emergent movement. This is a topic that I've wrestled in finding Read More → No Comments

With my tongue firmly planted in my cheek I sent this email to the owner of this store Sadly, no response. What I really want to know is, who does that kid think he is, tackling Jesus? Read More → No Comments

There is something inside a number of Protestant churches that really bothers me.  That thing is nepotism.  I'm all for pastors passing on their passion for "full time" ministry to their children.  I've got no beef with a pastor who is a pastor's son.  But I really don't like to see pastors hire their own [...] Read More → No Comments

To help our family bring more emphasis on Jesus at Christmas time I built a manger. We brought several new traditions into our home with this manger. I looked on the web for instructions on building a manger, but couldn't find any. I decided to build one and take pictures along the way just because I figured other pe Read More → Comments (14)