In Almost Famous, rock journalist Lester Bangs snuck a profound, easily missed confession to his young protégé: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Parenting inevitably reveals how the older we get, the less cool we become. But, what could be more unnerving - like realizing a mirror works even when our eyes are closed – is our kids have a front-row seat to our harried moments of long days and late nights of our flawed humanity.

Spend five minutes with a child you can quickly learn what their family values, expectations, what’s allowed, and what’s frowned upon. Why is that? Because a mirror works even when our eyes are closed.

Arriving before daybreak to immerse myself in the Austin phenomenon that is SXSW, I joined a rising tide of die-hard live music fans. On this morning, everything changed in an instant and it had nothing to do with the performance.

While the Church wrestles with outward cultural relevance, it's also navigating an inward challenge of metrics. Results and fruit, though both valuable, serve distinct purposes. The primary difference is: God doesn't call His people primarily to results—He invites us to bear fruit.

Even if shopping comes easily, an IKEA excursion can expose even the most committed of shoppers. I have a friend who imagines IKEA as the Swedish word for “hell.”…

The Church today is missing a great opportunity to be UNequally yoked. Of course, sameness isn’t bad. It’s just geared toward maintenance rather than growth.

Recovering an operating systems that reveals God in us.

Small-Batch Disciplemaking offers a hope-filled, useful “yoke”; a way to animate a living faith, like a relationship to nurture.