Jose Humphreys

Yesterday a pastor friend of mine described miracles as “events that stop the natural progression of things.” In his case, his story was about a young man who was on crack, in and and out of jail and destined to become yet another statistic in New York City. The miracle was that his [...]

Only in the city at a small Korean nail salon in the Barrio will you hear the sales pitch, “Mace for the face.”  It’s a true story. Mayra was getting her nails done, and you always get your usual neighborhood peddlers selling bootleg DVDS or Hip Hop gear. This one guy in particular seemed to have a different niche…”Mace for the face.” 

The church will always be a foreigner in the city until it learns to love the city. If we are going to be truly effective in urban ministry, we must first give ourselves permission to fall in love with our city.
Got that quote from Lindy Erin’s blog.
A group of us got together Friday and Saturday [...]

As I prayed this morning I felt the weight of teaching.
There are two thing in particular we do as teachers. One of them is guide people through new learning in a way that makes sense. The other is provide an avenue for discovery. It’s the latter part that I believe becomes a weighty [...]

Reading N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense. It’s in the same spirit as C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, where Christian faith is presented to people who perhaps haven’t engaged it before. So far I’m engaged with the first chapter where he refers to justice as “putting the world to rights.” Here’s an excerpt.
Christians believe [...]

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God vs. Science. A spirited debate between atheist biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian geneticist Francis Collins.
An Evangelical Identity Crisis. Sex or social justice? The war between the religious right and believers who want to go broader.

My prayer to God about church planting was, “Well Lord, if you’re going to ask me to do this thing, I need to be able to get some support.” And that’s an answered prayer. Right now we’re just doing alot of praying, listening, learning, reading, and visioning. We’re even taking a visioning [...]