Pastor’s Notes (Page 16)

• “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man…

[Following is a note I wrote a few years ago. At the end of next month a film version of The Shack will come out. Jumping to conclusions, I suspect the film version will be more theologically confused than the book. I encourage you to read this note and pass it on to friends who may have liked the book. It will challenge them, but it also has the potential to set them…

By rights, every Christmas ever celebrated should have begun with a worship service. It’s literally hard to imagine something more appropriate. With Christmas now long buried under commercialism, this year we have the opportunity to vote with our feet against the trivializing of the One who is genuinely glorious, high, and noble. Life in Christ requires intentionality:…

• Years ago, riding a train across Switzerland (some of you know this story), I met a gracious woman who was returning home from a Bible study. She invited me to stay a few days with her family in a small alpine village. As God would have it, I was there the day she and her mother met with the pastor of their decreasingly-biblical church to tell him they were leaving. It…