Leadership Institute Friends

I am looking forward to Leadership Institute at Resurrection this coming week.  We will welcome some 1,600 people from around the country, Jim Wallis will be with us as the keynoter, and it promises to be a great time of worship and teaching.
Heather and I are looking forward to hosting friends for the week as [...]

Leadership Institute Prayers

In preparation for Leadership Institute, we spent a great deal of time in prayer in Staff Chapel last week.  Each staff member was asked to take several bookmarks with the names of people who will be attending.  We’ve been asked to be in prayer for those persons as they prepare to travel to and spend [...]

Good (race) Strategy

Yesterday was the Sacred Steps 5K at Resurrection.  I’d never participated in an official race like that before, and I loved it!  I started off with Andrew and Dagney; it was good to have friends by my side navigating the mass of people.  Andrew and I had similar goals for the race and I felt [...]

Financial Advice

The other evening @andrewconard dropped a tweet that smacked of profound wisdom – “if people lived within their means many problems would disappear.”
It reminded me of a Saturday Night Live skit with a similarly profound message.  I couldn’t find the video to embed, but you can view it here.
Yes my friends, it really is [...]

GPS Insight

I’m writing the GPS Insight’s for Thursdays and today’s is now up.  These insights are some further thoughts and reflections on the day’s reading from the GPS.  Several other pastors and myself are taking turns writing them.  If you haven’t started checking them out, please do!

David Kinnaman @ COR

David Kinnaman, author of unChristian, was at Resurrection last night for two hours of lecture and discussion about his research that led to the publishing of the book.
The research Kinnaman conducted with the Barna Group uncovered six common perceptions about Christianity that are held by outsiders in the 16-29 year old age range, the top one [...]

Sacred Steps – Race Week

Last year, after changing my general health habits, I ran a 5k for the first time in my life.  I have not kept the training up this last year quite as I would’ve hoped; the move, the change in job, the expectancy of the baby – I’ve had some distractions.  Over the course of the [...]

Roman Catholic Practices in United Methodist Worship?

I recently received the following question via email from a member at Resurrection.
I was brought up my whole life roman catholic and I have asked my friends who I have attended resurrection with and they cannot answer maybe you can help me. Why in our church do we not make the sign of the cross [...]

KU Band Day 2008

Yesterday Heather and I headed to Lawrence to watch the KU Band Day Parade.  The parade is something that we both participated in 10-15 years ago as high school students and the bands from both of our alma maters were marching yesterday so it was fun to see them in action.  My parents met us in [...]

unChristian

I just picked up and have begun reading unChristian by Dave Kinnaman.  Dave will be at Resurrection this coming Tuesday for a presentation and some question and answer time with our young adults.  In January Adam will be preaching a sermon series on the research discussed in this book.
Here’s a little more info on the [...]