DINING WITH SINNERS

The Downtown Church

This Sunday we will welcome my friend Rodney Calfee. I met Rodney on the Jet Set Trip to Asia with The Upstream Collective. Rodney is the pastor of The Downtown Church...

Mapmaking

Cultural maps enable us to navigate our worlds. They are in our imagination so we tend not to recognize them as our cultural maps. These maps shape how we make decisions and...

Sunday Reflections

“It felt fresh tonight.” Is one of the comments about Sunday’s gathering @ Matthew’s Table. He couldn’t really explain himself, it just...

Law and Gospel

Today I am working on some final edits of my sermon for Sunday – part 4 of The Gospel Centered Life Series: “Law and Gospel.” We are considering the...

Broke Down

My wife, Amanda, made another trip to Arkansas over the weekend to visit family and to attend her 10 year high school reunion. Arkansas, however, seems to have some kind of...

Third Places –...

The push back I get from a lot of missional practitioners is: “Why not be a regular at the coffee shops and other third places that already exist in your city.”...

An Edible Future?

Here is follow up to Josh’s Year in Review – a look into the future. I love the imagery that Josh uses to describe what may be for Matthew’s Table. Well,...

Third Places

Recently my friend, Ed Stetzer, wrote a blog about Matthew’s Table and third places. Since then I have received many phone calls and emails (I hear Ed is kind of a big...