The year my Phillies won the championship. It had been the absolute worst season of little league that I’d ever experienced. I later learned that my coach benched me because my parents couldn’t afford the uniforms. It turns out that the coach owned the uniform shop, and wanted our team…

Every Good Friday my church finds a place in our city where the spiritual longings of our friends and neighbors are already on display. This year, we held our service at Bike Church. Creative Machines built Bike Church to be an ecumenical invitation to remember people who have died in…

What happens next in redemptive history? Let me dial that question in. When you think about your view of God’s plan and activity in the cosmos, what is the next significant event on planet earth? …

Excerpt from “Exalted & Filled” at Mission Church — 12/19/21 This is a modified portion of a sermon I remember well and look back upon fondly. I was encouraged to capture and share this portion by a member of our church. I hope you enjoy this imagined scenario. To listen to the whole sermon CLICK HERE. — When considering the Christmas story it is important to ask; who receives Jesus? The answer, according to Mary the Mother of Jesus is; the humble. …

I’ve been almost begging older, knowledgeable, and discipleship minded Christians to come to our church lately, and it’s been a surprisingly difficult sell. Why am I doing this? Well, I am a pastor of a small church that intentionally seeks to be an outpost of Christianity. We have committed to…

Why The Sunshine Mile Isn’t Done Yet. The Sunshine Mile project, slated to be complete by fall of 2021, remains unfinished and area businesses and residents are feeling the pain. Many blame the City of Tucson for mis-projecting the timeline while others blame Ashton Construction for mismanagement of the project. A spokesman for the construction company blames…

This is the fifth and final story in a series based on the history of Tucson’s Garden of Gethsemane that is meant to help us examine what we do with Jesus today. We Can’t Live Without Him Why is it that our culture, as much as it’s claimed to move on from Jesus, continues to…

This is the fourth in a series based on the story of Tucson’s Garden of Gethsemane, but meant to help us examine what we do with Jesus today. We Deface Him Felix Lucero could only look after his sculptures for so long because of the simple fact of his mortality. God had spared…

I was on the guest list for the inaugural show of Bad Religion’s 2022 world tour. My wife and I chose the front row balcony seats at Tucson’s Rialto Theater because…we’re 39. We could have fought our way to the front row on the floor, but that looked painful. There…