My friend Matt Marino has written for “The Living Church” a couple of articles on the importance of solid youth ministry.  His latest is worth looking at. Like Rip Van Winkle, the Church is waking from its long slumber to find the world changed. All branches of the American church have a problem retaining young…

My friend Cameron Cole delivered this message found here in October at the Rooted Conference.  He was keenly aware that he was closing the conference where some excellent and very experienced speakers had been doing keynote addresses.  He really wrapped up the conference well.  Just a few weeks later he lost his little son who…

Since we are in the midst of the twelve days, I thought I’d post one further on Christmas. Many of us grew up singing a song about Santa Claus coming to town. We had it drilled in our heads that the guy was keeping score. He had a list and he was all knowing. Nothing…

When Jane and I started having children, I raised a question in the high school Sunday School class I taught. Did everyone grow up with the Santa Claus myth? There were some students in the class whose parents were very intentional about raising Christian kids and I suspected some of them handled the legend differently…

This has been a rather difficult couple of weeks.  Sunday the 8th was very emotional.  We celebrated the life of my brother Steven.  It was the strangest thing to celebrate his life and then go eat at the same place we did after his wedding 14 months ago. I keep thinking this is all but…

In the midst of the news of my brothers unexpected and untimely death, I have had a variety of reflections that I want to process or share. They are somewhat random. One is how it struck me that Facebook has become a place to grieve and remember someone. I read a ton of posts about…

     On Sunday December 8 my wife and I will join family members in a funeral home for a viewing and service for my little brother Steve.  Last Monday night we got the call that he had gone into cardiac arrest and within a few hours, he passed away.  My brother was a mere…

We recently had the opportunity to have David Plant as guest speaker for our high school students at re:generate.  He did an amazing job!  Since then though he had the following article published on Gospel Coalition Blog. In the story of the transfiguration, Jesus takes his friends high atop a mountain to share with them…

The church of England has been in decline for a very long time and I am not sure most of the leadership gets it.  Oh, they see the decline in the reports but the general response has been less than inspiring. The evangelical churches are the only ones actually growing (sweeping generalization) and they face…

regenerate 2013 Slideshow from Dave Wright on Vimeo.