Chris Bishop

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 [...]

If you look at newspaper headlines on the front page you will notice that font size makes a big difference on how important the paper feels a story is.  After all the larger the headline, the less room for other stories on the page.  The things deemed less important thus get a smaller font. We [...]

This past weekend that i thought would be a great idea.  We kicked off a new series called “Becoming.”  It is all about being transformed into people that God has made us to be.  The thought was that we would try and reflect what we are doing in Sunday morning worship by having a series [...]

So the picture to the left is the current state of the Xbox360 at the Bishop home.  A little while ago we had the spinner go out of the Xbox and so the ability to play a disk became impossible (because it couldn’t spin).  As of late the Xbox has become a way that we [...]

 I saw this post the other week and I thought that it was really interesting.  It has been rolling around in my mind along with a quote from Kenda Creasy Dean that says that, “youth ministry is the R&D of the church.”  Makes me think about how youth are a great barometer for the health [...]

Today began with the reminder of my role as dad when Eden popped out of a dead sleep, and waddled over to where I was still dead asleep to inform me that she was awake and she needed to go to the potty RIGHT NOW! Following that the morning continued as Katie and I waited [...]

We went biking yesterday with a group from the church and I think we counted about 35 people that came out for the event.  It was a really great time and I think everyone had fun meeting some new faces.  We stopped in Harpers Ferry for ice cream and some time to talk.  At one [...]