Podcast Returns!
After a year away – and with10,000 apologies to listeners – the podcast is back! It has been a crazy 12 months, building a “fresh expression” of the church in Irvine, CA. But with the help of an amazing team, Canvas is now up and running – and inviting everyone to make their unique contribution to [...]
Love Over Law – Building the Habit of Love, Part 1
“Love more; sin less.” This is the church’s classical definition of Christian maturity (the short version, anyway). Both are essential, but I want to argue that things go very much better when we begin with the “love more” part. For it is love that ultimately defines God and his desire for creation – a truth [...]
What Everyone Values about Church
Few things will kill your self-esteem like throwing a party no one attends. There you are, house clean, wine glasses sparkling, custom playlist on your iPod…and three people in your living room. You check Facebook to see if any “maybes” are on their way. No changes on the invite page, no posts on your wall. [...]
The Resurrection: Why I Actually Believe (Sermon)
There is probably no aspect of Christianity more difficult to accept intellectually than the bodily resurrection of Jesus. And one could hardly be blamed for approaching the idea with complete skepticism. It seems so much more plausible that the gospel accounts are speaking either metaphorically or just plain mistakenly. Perhaps the authors desired to have [...]
