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The Church is loosing standards, and 75% of our Kids – is it Related?
A few years ago I was at a baseball game with my wife and my friend Matt. We were at a Lancaster Barnstormers Game in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I love baseball, always have – shy of Disc Golf and Ultimate Frisbee it is the only sport I like. Sitting just two sets behind the dug out for the New Jersey team was tempting, too tempting for someone like me who can lack filter at times. The Team had ego, and they were playing rough – and the umpires were feeding into their hands. The first innings were already full of sloppy strikes and safes’ at first base that should have been called outs. Then we were up to bat again, an

A Chance To Support God’s Work in Ethiopia.
Friends allow me to introduce a friend to you, and allow me to introduce a opportunity to you. I am not one to ask for things or to mass email people in this matter, but as I chewed on this all day I felt the need to. My good friend and mentor, Jerry Shannon, served as my Pastor in the Lancaster Vineyard Church for over six years. I have always felt a calling to subcultures, missionial movements, community rebuilding and a roundabout journey, to reuniting with my Anabaptist heritage – all which I was given the freedom to follow God in under Jerry’s leadership. I interned under Jerry and served under him on the Church Leadership team – and learned much from his op

4 Legs of Christianity: Where Do Anabaptists Fit? Have We Forgotton our Renewal Side?
As I watched a Historian Speak the other Day at a Music Festival I was attending, she addressed the four main “legs” of Christianity, and tried to systematically explain into which leg every mainline and common church denominations fit into. As she broke down where even some smaller church types fit into, she almost purposely skipped over the Anabaptist movement of the church. I watched on from the side stage of the festival; sitting under a large canvas tent as the rain fell harder and harder outside, waiting for her to make sense of our unique pietism and peaceful movement – however no explanation came on which leg we leaned. Was it spirit led? Was it justice based? Was it Sola

The Tension & Balance of the Early Church on Non-Resistance
I am committed to living a non-resistant lifestyle. To some of you that is no surprise – and yet to others that might be a shock, bad theology or it might be just confusing on what that means. Perhaps the bigger surprise for some, is that I believe Jesus not only demonstrated this lifestyle – but has called us as the church and as Christians that make up the church to live it out as well. For some of you, like I said, you are going to view this as bad theology – but regardless please continue to bear a little longer with me as I continue this brief note. I would like to present to you perhaps some of my story, but more a few simple points to “chew on” in your thoughts.