Tiling on diagonal

Our laundry room project that was launched in August is nearing completion.


Our laundry room project that was launched in August is nearing completion.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about farming. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not planning to forsake my ordination vows. Nor am I considering the bi-vocational option of preaching by day and raising chickens by night. Instead, I’ve been considering the origins of the pastoral office. Tonight I read this quote from God found in Ezekiel 34,…

I wrote this for our church website a few months ago: “The church is not a building. It is the community of God on mission.” How would church leadership change if pastors were asked to mobilize people rather than attracted them to Sunday morning services? What if a church community decided to flatten its leadership…

Some of my recent thoughts on measuring growth: “We need new ways of measuring church success. In a large church, Sunday morning attendance indicates an ability to attract people. We give them excellent music and dynamic preaching. And Christians come. Then, when we measure our effectiveness we ask, ‘are people coming to church?’ We rarely ask, ‘are those…

I tucked my 2 favorite little people into bed tonight. I read Shawna the story about Abram telling the Egyptians that Sarai wasn’t his wife. We talked about lying; and about how God takes care of us, even when we’re afraid to do the right thing; and about not marrying your sibling. I told Elijah…

After months of waiting and wondering I received a letter today. While I was preparing my application (back in the fall) I found reading successful PhD applicants’ Statements of Intent very helpful. Here’s what I wrote to the TST Admissions Committee: TST Statement of Intent – Jason Mills If my denominational colleges are any indication of…

An older, church-going friend of mine has been bugging me to get my hands on a copy of The Shack for months. So, I finally set some time aside and read it this week. Although I would have taken a slightly different angle, William Young illuminated some of life’s greatest mysteries–from horrendous human loss to…