This quote came out of my mouth last week as I was teaching a seminar at the Calvin Worship Symposium. I was addressing a room full of multi-ethnic worship leaders and pastors and I said, “unless you are willing to make friends with people who are different than you, don’t expect your church people to

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. In this one short phrase, we see two revelations of GOD. #1. GOD IS COMMUNITY. (“Let us”) and #2. GOD IS CREATIVE.  CREATOR GOD. In my mom’s Bible, she underlined the word “creative” every time it appears in this first

This morning I was reading in Mark 6:45-51 45 Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. 47 Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the