You guitar players can cry yourself to sleep tonight after watching this video. Tommy is an amazing acoustic guitar player out of Australia....

Want a sneak peak and U2’s hot new single? You don’t want to miss this link sent to me by JCarlson!

I am departing tomorrow with several other Pastors and Elders from Parkview to attend this conference in Minneapolis, MN. If you’ve read m...

Last weekend my son Zach had a friend over who brought several “kid’s movies” for them to watch that evening. Two of them were based on the ...

OK, what's the deal with stupid tshirts being so cool to wear? Here are some funny tshirt slogans that may give you a laugh. I'm not...

Thanks to the 100+ people who attended this years Arts Kick-off Luncheon in the Atrium on Sunday. Our timing could have been better than to ...

Sadly, far more energy goes into criticizing the church than honoring and praying for it. We need to be reminded about the role of the churc...

Iowa's greatest theologian Josh Malone posted the following clip from Scot McKnight's blog regarding a recent Barna survey showing ...

In the last post (Worship is a Verb: Part 2) I gave a brief survey of physical worship practices all throughout the Bible and classified th...

I don't typically post on current events, but thought this post by Tim Challies articulated well what many citizens and Christians in t...

When I pray with my boys, I try to often remind them that they are to treat all girls and women with love and respect. In a commercial cultu...

I am finishing the book “ Worship in Spirit and Truth ” by John M. Frame. This is probably not a book that will interest the average churchg...

Courtesy of Jim, this will be my last post on clothing for a while. I always wondered what I would look like if I fit the "cool worship...

I just received an update from Keri Boer regarding Rob’s (former staffer at Parkview) battle with cancer. I know many of you have been prayi...

Thanks for all the great discussion on yesterday’s post on clothing. All the comments got me thinking about some things that I thought signi...

Quite regularly someone will comment or ask a question regarding what people should or should not wear during the corporate church gathering...

Here are a few pictures from a recent Baptism Service that was hosted by Doug and Jean and performed in the context of a small group. It wa...

The "Properity Gospel" teaches that the more faithful you are to God the richer you will become. Time Magazine made it a cover st...

Desiring God Ministries, a ministry of John Piper and Bethlehem Baptist Church have a new website that I took a few minutes to browse today....

I'm excited to announce that our Instrumental Music Director, saxophonist John Carlson, has released his own CD titled "Expressions...