I serve as the senior pastor of Bayside Auburn Church, a transformational and missional faith community. We are located in the foothills, a few miles east of Sacramento. This is my personal blog. After two decades of serving the church of Jesus as a pastor, I find myself more passionate about Jesus and more hopeful about the church than ever before. An awakening within the church and within the human soul is underway as I write. This is a great time to think about spirituality and to draw out the implications of vital Jesus-centered spirituality for church, pastors and culture. I marvel about this development; it’s shattering old paradigms and opening up new possibilities.

"Christians have no monopoly on commitment; they simply have a different object. A Christian is a person who confesses that, amidst the manifold and confusing voices heard in the world, there is one Voice which supremely wins his full assent, uniting all his powers, intellectual and emotional, into a single pattern of self-giving. That Voice is Jesus Christ."
- Elton Trueblood

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that…earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
- C.S. Lewis