I know what you’re thinking. “Jack, YOU?! A mega-church?” And Willow Creek Community Church isn’t just any mega-church, it’s the fourth-largest mega-church in the country with some 23,000 weekend attendees (for comparison, Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill mega-church which BrianJ and I visited back in April has 7,500 weekend attendees). It’s a non-denominational church which was [...]

I’m sure I’ll be labeled as a homophobe for posting this, but here goes.
On Wednesday, August 19 at 2 PM precisely, the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) held a convention in downtown Minneapolis wherein it voted to allow the ordination of sexually active homosexuals. As the convention was voting, an unexpected tornado formed over [...]

I am back online. Here is a summary of my time at the TEDS Orientation this weekend (see schedule). I attended most of the Saturday and Monday sessions.

We pulled into our new apartment at Vernon Hills at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning, and I needed to be at the Trinity campus 15 minutes away at [...]

The very first thing I said as I stared at the staff home page for DeerGrove Covenant Church was, “Honey, this pastor is hot!”
Paul zipped right over to the computer and peered at the screen from over my shoulder. “Okay,” he said quickly, “You can go to church there.”

Concerning our move:

On Wednesday night, Paul was having problems with the new Net10 cell phone misfiring in his pocket. He said it kept trying to start text messages on its own. So he tried to lock the keypad, only to get a message that says “PUK Code is blocked. Please contact your service provider.” The [...]

I’m about to go pick up our U-Haul truck, and I’ll soon be dismantling this computer, so I just wanted to say good-bye to everyone. Unless our hotel in Rapid City has Internet or one of our neighbors in Vernon Hills has an unsecured connection we can temporarily pinch from, you won’t hear from me [...]

Well, today was my last day of attending New Community Church of Tacoma, and thank you to everyone at NCCT for providing a great church home for me for the past year. However, it’s time to pull the link from the “Affiliations” section in my sidebar and declare that the hunt for a new church [...]

It’s been added to the right sidebar under the “ABOUT” heading. Or you can click here, just this once: Fall 2009 TEDS Schedule
In case you want some idea of what I’m up to and what my coursework involves.

So here’s what I’ve been dealing with the past few days in trying to prepare for my move.
EarthLink
EarthLink is my current Internet and phone provider. I get DSL, free long distance anywhere in the US or Canada, caller ID and voice mail all for about $70 a month—I know I get a ton of other [...]

I just took the “What denomination are you?” quiz here. These were my results:
(100%) 1: Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic)
(98%) 2: Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God
(88%) 3: Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.)
(88%) 4: Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene
(83%) 5: Seventh-Day Adventist
(81%) 6: Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist
(81%) 7: Congregational/United Church of Christ
(79%) 8: Lutheran
(72%) 9: Eastern Orthodox
(71%) 10: Church of Christ/Campbellite
(66%) 11: Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England
(59%) 12: Presbyterian/Reformed
(55%) 13: [...]