Expositional or topical preaching?

I find I resonate with the mission statement of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, “we are becoming a worshipful community of missional theologians.” While our church will not likely have a vision statement like that, I hope ours will not be in disagreement. In this post, I’d like to focus on the “theologian” portion. […]

Christianity has an image problem

It’s obvious that elements of our society are becoming resistant or even hostile to Christianity, but what may not be obvious is the depth of such resistance nor what the future portends as a result. A new study by Barna Research gives fact-based insight into this topic and is discussed in a new book by […]

Trick or Treat

Dan and I did Trick or Treat on Shell Ridge today. We had attempted it a few months ago, but missing stages prevented us from completing it. It is a multi-cache with two options at each stage. One option leads to a dead-end (trick), while the other leads on to the completion. Team Alamo will […]