Why the name?

It is upon the hill of Golgotha that Jesus was crucified. God’s heart was stripped naked, placed on full display, and the ripples of his love and forgiveness spread across time and through hearts. All that Christianity is traces back to Golgotha as Christ was lifted up to draw all humanity to himself.

About Me:

I am the pastor of Narrative Church in Tigard, OR. This blog is my place to put things down into writing - material from my sermons, my own thoughts, or anything else useful.

Attribution…

My head tends to be filled with a simmering caldron of dozens of influences that cross a gamut of theology and philosophy, nicely seasoned with my own experiences, thoughts, and processes. As I serve something up out of this mess, in a sermon, blog post, or personal interaction, I don’t always get a chance to recognize or realize where one thought or another comes from.

Was that a word-for-word quote I somehow recalled from a sermon I heard 10 years ago? A thought from a book I read only 6 months ago? Or my own creation from last week?

Sometimes it gets a little hazy in the middle of continually ingesting and digesting thoughts. Thus, in case attribution gets missed in a post or a sermon, here is a list - in no particular order - of some who influence my thoughts from years past and/or presently:

NT Wright, Rowan Williams, Stanley Hauerwas, Scot McKnight, CS Lewis, George MacDonald, Brian Zahnd, Greg Boyd, DB Hart, Christopher Wright, Samuel Wells, Michael Gorman, Brad Jersak, Paul Young, and many that I am forgetting at this time.

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