Are we doing Communion right? How did the Lord’s Supper go from this… ...to this? The night before His death, Jesus and His disciples shared a massive multi-course Passover feast. We’re talking wine, flatbread, roasted lamb, bitter herbs, and sides like lentil stew, eggs, fruit, nuts, and olives. After the meal, Jesus gave his disciples bread and wine, declaring them to be His body and blood. He told them to repeat the act in His memory. For a century or two afterward, the e

What do you do when your kids are being kids at church? Yell at them? Challenge them? Or let them be?

Growing up in the 90s in my conservative home, there was good music (e.g.,Perry Como) and evil music (everything recorded after 1970)… I was always nervous listening to anything with an electric guitar. When my Vanilla Ice cassette tape was discovered, I thought my life was over. But the bible encourages the creation of new music (Psalm 33:3), and using a variety of instruments (Psalm 150:3-5) in our worship. As with everything, it’s not about appearance or style, but what’s

Pet Seminary – Training and equipping our nation's pets for ministry.

I figure John the Baptist must have been the greatest preacher of all time after Jesus. I picture him climbing out of a bush to preach, snacking on locusts dipped in honey, dressed in a camel-hair toga. And yet people came from all over the whole region to hear him preach and be baptized by him. If you saw this man preaching on the sidewalk, would you guard your wallet and avoid eye contact? Or would you stop and listen? Matthew 3: 4-6 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair