Chris Bishop

Shovels, bulldozers and oil drilling When you study scripture how do you go about it? Shovel Slinger: Fling open your Bible, put a finger on a verse (get a scoop of dirt), read it, pray a bit done. You might wonder why God wasn’t very visible in the story that you read about the suffering [...]

I have a huge stack of reading right now on my desk. I am reading one right now called “Unlearning Church”. I the first chapter Michael Slaughter is talking about what thing the church has as a “radical product”. He says that revolutionary people are this product of the church. Now this sounds great!! Especially [...]

What is Prayer? Seems an easy enough question, but when we get down to it, “IT” becomes something that is harder to define than we would think. On all saint’s weekend this is what our later looked like at church.  We lit candles as an act of living prayer for those we have lost in [...]

On Sunday I met Katie and Eden for lunch at McDonald’s for a very fancy meal (oh yeah big spenders). We sat down, ate and watched people play with the giant slide puzzle (you can see a guy with camo on playing with it in the pic). We had a delightful meal and then Katie [...]

1 Corinthians 13 paraphrased for youth workers » JakeBouma.com This is a great post from a a guy who knows a thing or two about youth ministry (or can fake it well ). I thought that ti was a fun post, and a passage that we should all read before every day to seek being [...]

Last night at SPRC we approved that our Safe Sanctuaries policy was fitting and plan to move on to passing it to the church counsel in August.  Very cool

This past weekend I conducted my first weeding while flying solo. I have help with some others and officiated parts of my friends weddings, but this was the first where I was THE guy.