I used to do a ton of theatre as a kid. I had good directors. I had not-so-good directors. But when I looked in the mirror, what I always saw was one of the actors. Well, my pastor drafted me to direct my new Christmas Play. Yikes! What am I going to do at my first […]
Director’s Journal: Getting Ready
So I wrote this Christmas Play, and of course I gave a copy to my pastor. Who knows?” I thought. “They always do a play in Advent. Maybe they will think it is fun to produce the world premier!” They said yes! Woo hoo! I should know by this time that this amounted to volunteering […]
Christmas Play: Giving You Back Your Treasures
There really is a common thread holding together all the posts on my blog. (Well, almost all of them.) Let’s see if you can find it. What do the following have in common: A post on a saint from the Middle Ages. A post on a section of the Heidelberg Catechism. A post on a classic […]
Join my “Review Crew” and help launch my new Christmas Play!
I’m about to publish a Christmas play. (I call it “Christmas Play.” Pretty catchy, eh?) I am totally psyched about this project. It is designed for production in churches. It focuses squarely on the real Christmas story, weaving the biblical text of every Gospel passage about the coming of Christ into one story. I’d love to […]
Keeping Our True Orientation to Communion (Heidelberg Catechism, Q55)
Last week I posted that the church is most the church when it is in worship, on Sunday morning, receiving the Lord’s Supper. My friend and colleague Chris James left a thoughtful reply disagreeing with me. I see his point. Isn’t this actually the problem in mainstream Christianity? We neglect the mission of God in the world because we are […]
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