Ragamuffin Soul

So as I am helping craft the worship experiences at Catalyst with Brad and team, I think it’s important that we include songs in the worship sets that are currently connecting with your churches… What songs are the songs that your people sing the loudest to? What songs are connecting right now? Not your favorite [...]

She’s been around the ragamuffinsoul.com community for years. My friend Anne Jackson’s second book, Permission to Speak Freely – Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace releases today. I’ve asked her to share one of the essays from her book with you. Anne decided to share seven essays on seven different blogs, this being the third. For the rest [...]

My new house does not have internet yet. It would be difficult tonight. Rescheduled for Wednesday… Same time. Until Ten… How can we pray for you? Los

We have a church. Soul City Church. It was instrumental in bringing a transformational mindset into my family and marriage.  We would sit on Jarrett and Jeanne’s sofa for hours and weeks and months talking about how to live out this new way of thinking about church and the Gospel. Last November I wrote this [...]

I have started a league for our community. If you want in leave a comment and if we get 10 or under then you are all in. If we have 10 or more then we will have a lotto to see who gets in. Who wants in? Los

So when you go to a conference… A church one… Like one to help you with your church… What is it that you are actually looking for? Are you looking to be “wowed”? Are you looking to be inspired by “wow”? Are you looking for nuts and bolts? Are you looking for networking with other [...]

This month has been a —–(female pootch). Or crappy… Today I feel like cussing…but I censored my typing, although you all know what I typed, so is it really censored if I thought it? Anyways… The Whittakers are broke, but only in America. The truth is we have a roof over our head, and food, [...]

Big Church or Little Church…and why? Los

I’ll go first… When I was a kid I…was in the Tintinnabulators. A Og hand bell choir from Decatur GA that would regularly beat down any hand bell choir from Oak Grove Baptist or SmokeRise Baptist at any regional hand bell festival. GANGSTA. Your turn… When I was a kid I… Los

[wow] I often wonder this. I’ve got a few best friends who I think serve different purposes for me and it would be hard for me to narrow them down to just one. If a gun was put to my head and I had to… I wonder what my ultimate qualifications would be? And I’m [...]