Author Archives: Richard Heyduck

Steve Sjogren advises struggling churches to get Simple, look Upward, and work Outward. Sjogren first came to my attention as the strategist behind Servant Evangelism, and reaching people for Jesus remains noe of his strongest suits. Worship and evangelism are … Continue reading →

My favorite NT scholars include N.T. Wright, Gordon Fee, Richard Bauckham, James Dunn & Ben Witherington. The last of these has a new website up.

As a parent of a child with Special Needs, I try to keep my eyes open for helpful resources. There is so much I don’t know how to do, that we need all the help we can get. This site … Continue reading →

Continuing a commentary on Steve Sjogren’s The Perfectly Imperfect Church…. The second path for struggling churches (see Sjogren’s definition in my first post in this series) involves worship – he calls it Upward. This chapter has some of his best … Continue reading →

In Steve Sjogren’s The Perfectly Imperfect Church, he identifies 13 paths a church travels to become perfectly imperfect. The first of these he calls, “Simple.” He thinks that the way we tend to do church is too complicated for most … Continue reading →

We usually take little things for granted – that’s why we clasify them as little things and not big things. In social contexts it can be really hard to tell whether something is big or little. Think no farther than … Continue reading →

This coming Sunday I’m preaching on “The Blessings of an Imperfect Church.” As part of my preparation I picked up a copy of Steve Sjogren’s book, The Perfectly Imperfect Church: Redefining the “Ideal” Church. I’ve enjoyed Sjogren’s books in the … Continue reading →

The Bible tells us that “the wages of sin is death.” That sounds pretty dangerous to me. One of the prevailing sins in our culture (and throughout the ages from what I can tell) is the way men deal with … Continue reading →

Everyone knows the preachers only work 1 day a week. When someone else is doing the preaching for us, we don’t even work that one day. People seem to think it’s easy for us. It sure isn’t for me. Last … Continue reading →

In today’s New York Times, David Brooks writes (requires registration) about the relative advantage (political) conservatives have vs. liberals by being so much more divided. I’m not sure this is entirely correct, though it does seem true that liberals value … Continue reading →