Life

I’m blogging from Hillsong Church in Australia right now. And I am totally inspired. For those of you who don’t know, Hillsong is perhaps the most influential contemporary worship church of the last century. (In fact, Hillsong United has been topping the secular itunes downloads for the last few weeks). Their songs are being played…

  We just got more great publicity from the Star Tribune!  How cool is that?!  The article was on churches that market themselves through Twitter and Facebook.  Of course, a photograph of me and Substance was randomly put into the article.  Talk about random!  People started calling me last Sunday saying:  “Pastor… what a cool little…

Are you an American Idol Fan? I told myself:  “Peter, you are not gonna watch that this year.”  And of course, for some reason, I got sucked in again.  Last year, the worship pastor of one of my mentor pastors got into the finals (remember Chris Sligh).  So, of course, I had to vote. After…

My wife and I started dating over 17 years ago!We’re celebrating her 34th birthday today.And that means, we’ve been together for more years than we’ve been apart.Isn’t that crazy?In fact, for her 17th birthday, I bought her a cassette tape of a band called “The Cure.”(And, if you don’t know what a cassette tape is,…

Last Night I just hung out with some pastor friends, Tory and Elizabeth Farina.Talk about a fun couple!Seriously, every time I hang with them they make me feel like a million bucks (that’s a nice skill when you’re a pastor).As for me:I have an ability to make people around me more sarcastic.And, yes, that’s a…