Reflections from a tumultuous time of ministry

Those of you who attend church with me at Omaha Bible Church know that I am going through a significant change in ministry. Over the last three years, my wife Amy and I have been serving in the high school ministry together. As the leader of that ministry, I was challenged in ways I could [...]

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Earplugs: Sounds out or brains in?

As I’ve mentioned, lately the learning has been coming fast and furious. It’s all I can do to hold on to as much of it as possible.
Tonight is a good example:
I’ve just sat down from jamming through much more reading than I’m accustomed. The leadership meeting to plan our ministry year for Ikon Youth Ministries [...]

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Looking at the box from the outside: Man that thing is small!

OK, so someone who will remain anonymous is goading me about my recent dearth of posts. For the record, I have been VERY busy. I know that I have a monopoly on being busy, too. From overseeing our high school retreat this weekend, to recovering from said retreat, to closing off administrative threads regarding said [...]

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If I could just point this one thing out…

In our high school ministry we try to drill on the point that assurance of salvation is not based simply on a profession of faith, but on spiritual fruit. The profession is essential, but it is empty without evidence. All ow me now to call your attention to one major piece of evidence on behalf [...]

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Please…not another New Year’s resolution.

I am a self-professed New Year’s stick-in-the mud. I am not into making resolutions, and this year will not be any different. I also find it difficult to get charged up about celebrating New Year’s Eve in any way. The older I get, the more of a non-event it becomes. All the New Year’s means [...]

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Back to the salt mines!

Allow me so say something with some VERY negative connotations:your involvement in church should be like work. That’s right, be you a sandwich artist, working the movie theater concessions counter, or selling toilet paper and bowl cleaner (that would be me), your participation in church ministry should be like work. Throw out labor laws [...]

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