I’ve had a perpetual conversation between friends in regards to worship. It has been said that our church is ahead of the curve. Some have said they are so thankful to be a part of this church’s worship. Some have said that it is deeply life-giving for them, especially considering their recent church history. But […]

Here is the prayer I read September 11, 2011 at Vintage Fellowship, during our 5th anniversary celebratory service.*   To Creator, obedience To Creation, service To each other, community In all things, love, in all things love With possessions, simplicity For life, prayer In our world, creativity In all things, love, in all things love […]

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe.

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe. I really like this idea. I think it resonates deeply with what I’ve been trying to do with Vespers. For many years I’ve had this sense that there was a large […]

I read a lot of books, some of them are really good, some not so much, some are informative or educational, but then some are just simply ruptures in thinking—this was what Dan Kimball‘s Emerging Worship was for me. It isn’t very new (published in 2004) and it isn’t a very complex or hard read […]

Here are my thoughts/notes on our recent Ash Wednesday service. We came at it like we’ve doing the Vesper service. Vintage Fellowship hasn’t traditionally walked through the Lenten calendar, so we didn’t have any precedent to conform to. I used the liturgy from the 1979 Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer as a model to work from. […]

So for Lent my faith community, Vintage Fellowship, decided to give up the technology related to our Sunday gatherings—this includes things like the projector, electric instruments, amplifiers, microphones, and the like. With this change we were able to do some unique things since we weren’t tethered to the power outlets. We moved things around in […]

Here’s a collection of stuff related to vespers service as I know at least one or two of you will be interested in this stuff. For those who missed it, here’s a post introducing everything. Pictures and Video: Here is the media from the service. These pictures give a pretty good idea of how it […]

For those who may not have heard, I am now officially an associate pastor at Vintage Fellowship. Well actually that isn’t my actual title, as we are still working one. ‘spiritual architect’ has been suggested; I like ‘practitioner in residence’ or something like ‘spiritual gardner’ but neither of us are sure about it. Though the whole idea […]