It is a great source of pride—I hope a sanctified sort of pride!—for us at Chapel Hill to say that we have raised up 16 young leaders to ordained pastoral ministry. Well, I’m delighted to announce that number is about to go to 19! As of today, I have handed Julie Hawkins, Ryan Palmer, and […]
Something special
I always hope and expect that our weekend services will be special; that there will be a strong sense of the Holy Spirit moving through our music, worship, prayers and spoken word. But last weekend was something REALLY special. And if you missed—dang! I’ll give you a recap. At the end of the sermon in […]
Secret sauce
I think Hires is my favorite burger joint. It’s in Salt Lake City, my wife’s hometown. Every time we visit, we have to go to Hires. Fresh, never-frozen ground beef, homemade buns, vegetables that taste like they were just picked from the garden—mmmmm, so good! But the topper is the sauce. The secret sauce. It’s […]
Get out of the stands and into the game
(Okay, first things first. We are going to reveal some very exciting news at our services this weekend. You won’t want to hear this second-hand!) Now—I still remember the school we played. It was Washington. A tough, inner-city (at least as inner-city as Yakima got at the time) football team. I was playing on the […]
Drumroll please!!!! Chapel Hill Port Orchard will be meeting at…
…South Kitsap High School! We are thrilled to announce that our first Sunday morning service for Chapel Hill Port Orchard will be Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, in the auditorium of South Kitsap High School. What an incredible space God has provided for us! The auditorium seats more than 250, with two smaller auditoriums immediately […]
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Kobe
I was still at church Sunday morning when I saw the headlines beginning to scroll across my phone. A helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and an unknown number of other passengers had crashed near Calabasas, California. There were no survivors. One of the greatest basketball players ever to take the floor was dead. Even if you […]
Making history—and history in the making
If you were here for our 10:45 am service two Sundays ago, you made history. Through a scheduling error, I realized I had to fly out of Sea Tac on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 pm, which meant I could not possibly preach the 10:45 am service. I realized this just the day before and our […]
May God give us his passion for kids
Five years ago, had I heard there was a sermon series called “For Our Kids” coming up, I probably would have stayed home. Larry and I were in the eighth year of infertility and I didn’t need another conversation about kids I didn’t feel like I could be a part of. But now as a […]
For our kids
Tan Jenkins’ memorial service on January 4 was one of the largest we have ever hosted. We don’t often have to ask folks at a funeral to scoot in; we did with Tan’s. In part, this was because of the remarkable, courageous, radiant person Tan was. Her unconquerable smile and unquenchable joy, regardless of her […]
Happy New Decade!
Ten years ago, most of us didn’t have a smart phone, the iPad still hadn’t been introduced, the majority of visual entertainment was consumed through live TV (unless you had a TiVo—anyone remember those?), cash was a necessity, watches couldn’t tell us how many steps we had taken, Facebook was mainly for young people, and […]