Hey Brookies! It’s time to shift again. Anyone taken a look at the 10:00 am service lately?—In both the main building and the Video Cafe? It’s slammed and once again we are hearing frustration from some of our guests about it taking too long to check in kids and or get a parking space. For some […]
READ MOREI’m thrilled to be a part of this history making series called, “One Prayer!” For those of you who haven’t heard anything about it yet, it is a unifying of over 1400 churches and close to a million people in their passion to see God move in mighty ways through local churches around the world! […]
READ MOREOk, I found the analogy and the brain behind it. Larry Osborne is the author of a book called, “The Unity Factor.” In it he says that, as a church goes along the continuum of size it goes from a decathlete (the lead pastor)—where the pastor does ten events (preaching, teaching, youth, returning emails, cutting the […]
READ MOREOne of my closest friends is a pastor in the Georgia area. That’s all I’ll tell you about him because some people just have to play, ‘Inspector Clouseau’ and track’m down. If that’s you, you have WAAAAY too much time on your hands. Anyway, my friend’s been through a lot lately with some power hungry […]
READ MOREWhy is it that the people with the greatest message in history—a message of hope and love and healing—can be one of the most obnoxious and overbearing roadblocks to encountering God? Seriously? Have you ever thought of this? If they will know we are Christians by our love than what will they (the world at […]
READ MOREA lot of the parables (stories) Jesus told have to do with getting real. I’m talking about living a spiritual life of substance rather than a virtual spiritual life that only pays lip service to God. On one occasion Jesus fired off two quick ones in a row in order to bludgeon the point home […]
READ MOREI’ve been telling you all about this for weeks. Well, it’s here! In case you haven’t been around or read the blog, I’m talking about “One Prayer.” It started out small (like the singing of the Whos down in Whoville) but has started to grow! And grow and grow and grow! Now, there are nearly […]
READ MOREToday I read an awesome post by my friend, Troy Gramling. He talks about the issue of loyalty. It’s well worth the read. So go check it out here. I have a lot of pastor friends, and most of them have had their share of hard knocks in the ministry. But almost without exception, the […]
READ MOREThere used to be an old praise song that had this line in it. I used to think it originated from there. I was a kid, what can I say? Turns out, however, that it originated from here; “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love […]
READ MOREWe just wrapped up the series, “Tough Choices” and I believe it lived up to its name. Three weeks ago we discussed some tough choices we’ll have to make as a church family in order to see God bless us greatly for His glory. Two weeks ago we took an honest look at some tough […]
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