jskogerboe.com :: one thing

There may be good reasons not to share the gospel at your next church gathering. Let me unpack this a bit.  At Living Hope Church we are all about relationships. “Building relationships that change lives” is how we summarize the disciple-making process.  We believe that honest relationships are so central to the way God wired [...]

There’s this paradox.  It’s a pendulum swinging.  It’s a tug of war.  The truth about God. God is Holy. God is Love.  God is Righteous. God is Merciful.  God is to be feared. God is to be adored. You might be a church-goer.  Or not.  You might believe in God loosely, or you might embrace [...]

I wrote an artice in October 2009 called “Rick Warren is not the anti-christ ::  seeker sensitive cow tipping” that generated heavy traffic and a long string of comments.  I tried to make the case that, whether a church is “seeker sensitive” or “traditional” or “contemporary” or “fundamentalist,” there are sacred cows (untouchable ideologies and [...]

Christian hair has taken on new meaning. What follows is an honest, amused ramble through a minefield of questions I have about the current state of worship leading and those who lead worship in our contemporary Christian churches in America.  For full disclosure:  I am one. I actually grew up using the term “Christian hair” [...]

  A month ago, while writing a series of posts for my first WordPress blog on Design in Ministry (here), I touched a nerve.  While my basic point in the article was not all that controversial – basically, “Do your best possible work, church people!  Don’t settle for a ‘good enough’ mentality when it comes [...]