Chris Bishop

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So there hasn’t been much posting going on here for the last little bit because it is simply something that has fallen off of the plate for the past little while. I have notes, drafts and potential posts scattered throughout my bags and notebooks, but there is little progress that is really happening.  There are [...]

In the age of twitter, how would you proclaim the Good News with only 140 characters?  Redirecting to external links doesn’t count.  Today the amount of written material and media is astounding.  Most of it is just background noise to us.  It is hard to have something that passes through our filters and then makes [...]

There are events, services and intentional efforts that we make to connect with the students in the community who are not part f our ministries.  The hope would be to present the Gospel, or offer an experience that will make this community want to come back and eventually be a part of the ministry.  There [...]

In our student ministry we are beginning a series called “Home” from now until Christmas.  The series is all about the prodigal son parable and where we fit in the story and where God is when we go off the ranch.  With this I thought that I would shape the next couple of Faith Lab [...]