Bethany is here
On May 4th 2012, the Bishop family’s world was turned upside down again with the birth of Bethany Grace. Eden and I come home from a preschool beach party with a surprise Thai food lunch for mom. After lunch Katie said the contractions were getting way worse and closer together. At 1:00 we made our [...]
Faith Lab: Shaping Worship
I love the adventure of shaping and facilitating worship. This is a picture from our last youth worship service. The goal of the service was to capture the drama and emotion of all of Holy week. We began on Palm Sunday, and people even threw their hoodies and jackets on our road to Jerusalem (see [...]
April fool a little late
I love that my small group students would care enough to take the time to totally destroy my office like this. I am still unwrapping things. They took the time to wrap up my books, individual DVDs, my phone, funeral shoes, bobble head Jesus (which they think is a sin), and much much more, They [...]
Rockstar or social worker
This week I am preaching on the triumphal entry. This is the part of the biblical narrative where Jesus rides a donkey, or colt into Jerusalem. In my sermon prep and research for this week, I have been struck by the the disconnect between the way we celebrate rockstars vs the people who are fighting [...]


