Greg Rittler

In a world that seems to have a lot of reasons for fear and worry I found Fearless to be reassuring, comforting, and refreshing compared to where my mind is much of the time. While the economy has gone on a major roller coaster and many are fearful (including me at times for sure) Lucado [...]

I have a hard time explaining to people why I struggle with Christians and the organized church so much. This article by Richard Rohr really explains it better than anything I would write: "Historically, religion has more often been a belonging system or a belief system, than an actual system of transformation. When belonging and [...]

I’m loving the Sunday morning at the beach. It is beautiful out. First one up. Here is a great article on Rebranding Africa: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10bono.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all

Until about 5 years ago I didn’t really believe I could change. I knew I could improve in certain aspects and I knew I could get better at certain skills. But deep down inside in places you don’t share with other people often, I believed that there was some junk in my life that would [...]

In February, our church brought in a consultant named Paul Borden to take a peak at how we were doing as a church. Borden recommended a number things to the leadership that needed to be addressed. Among the shortlist of the major issues were the following (this is my paraphrase not exactly what was said [...]