Open Mike

My Persistent Prayer

Hey LFC Directors and Elders – (I sent this as an email this morning, and invite all of you who read this blog to apply it to your ministry and the people God has for you to love) I listened to Greg TeSelle's July 4th sermon on ‘Pers...

Breath Prayer: "Abba, I belong to you"

Today I invite you to share a weekly prayer journey during Lent - each Sunday we will teach and 'try on' a specific type of prayer during the worship service. We will blog and Facebook those instructions on Monday, and I hope you will th...

Frontier of the Spiritual Life

Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Real prayer is life creating and life changing.“Prayer--secret , fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness,” writes William Carey. To pray is to chan...

Religious Jesus and Me

As I stand in front of God and everybody on a Sunday and bodly claim to speak FOR the former TO the latter, I am often spoken to myself. Sometimes gently, other times not. By the WORD i have just spoken to others. Such was the case whe...

Brunch with the Barstool Pastor

A year ago I told you about a new LFC guy who goes by the handle of Barstool Pastor. Many of you fell in love with his mission (the post http://mikemoses.typepad.com/purple_pastor/2010/05/barstool-pastor.html)I want to give you an updat...

Friends, You Have Helped Us

I was reminded today of a stirring letter written from a couple in our church to the others at LFC who they've 'done life with,' since the couple began to follow Jesus a few years ago. Last Sunday, we unveiled another aspect of Lake Fore...

Little Big Things Yesterday

My oldest son, Dylan, had surgery to repair a torn ACL yesterday. Some little things were done for us, in love, that demonstrated and pointed to the Kingdom of God in big ways. I can remember heady, early 90's days of punk Gen Xers lik...

Fellow Christians: A pastor worships at three local churches

As I journey through Greece and Italy, I will visit a few interesting new churches, pastored by men and women with a heart to reach post-Christian (frankly philosophically hopeless) Europeans with the good news of the love of Jesus Chris...

Both/And

Yesterday I decided to offer an extended pastoral prayer in worship - a bit unusual for me. I excitedly planned to pray on behalf of the sanctity of life, specifically regarding the protection of life in the womb in America, the thrivin...