What an incredible series for God! Planet Earth is over now; however, like global warming, we’ll be feeling the effects for some time to come. Unlike global warming ALL of these effects are real and ALL of these effects are good! The week before the series began we saw 116 people come to Christ as […]
READ MORELet’s quit monkeying around! A Barrel Full of Monkeys Ok, gang, obviously people are pouring into Southbrook’s weekend services again and that means that the unchurched, dechurched, tire-kicking, far from God, curious public who give church a whirl will want to come to the 10:00 service. Unfortunately, I’m still seeing some of our ‘mature in […]
READ MORE“Recommit†God’s New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s resolutions don’t work. Is anyone really shocked by that statement? I mean, we all know this to be true, right? Right. Then why do so many of us anti up on January 1 each year for another round of disappointments? Because we don’t want to be failures. We […]
READ MOREI told you that this Fall was going to be an amazing time of seeing dreams come true and it begins this weekend with the final message in our PLANET EARTH series and continues next weekend with the release of the long awaited Southbrook Praise and Worship CD, “Return!† It all began much […]
READ MORE‘Dream’ Put legs to those dreams! Dreaming (buzzz) is all fine and good, but when a lot of people talk about their dreams, I’m pretty sure they’re referring to their ‘daydreams.’ Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. When you sit around in your world history class and picture yourself as the $300,000,000 powerball winner, […]
READ MORE“Contemporary†This is the word, “relevance’s’†(buzzz) evil twin. How so? Well, alot of churches believe that if they throw in some, “contemporary†(buzzz) stuff (dressing casual, drums, electric guitar, etc.) that automatically makes them relevant (buzzz). But if that were true, than anything contemporary (buzzz) would automatically connect to your audience. But that connection […]
READ MOREReposted What’s next for the almost 700 new believers in Christ?! We have a large church within a mega church, but the two have very different needs. If you are one of the individuals who have trusted in Christ as you Lord and Savior this year, your next move is clearly outlined in scripture. You […]
READ MOREIt’s time once again for S.A.L.T (Southbrook’s Advanced Leadership Time). What does this mean for you? Well, if you lead a ministry, Participate in a ministry, Help with children’s Church, Are a part of the 180 first impression folks, Signed up to help with the Monroe Campus, Work with the Encounters, serve at Southbrook in ANY […]
READ MORESeeker Seeker (buzzz), or I guess this is really 2 buzz words with the term, ‘Seeker Sensitive’ (buzzz). This may be the one that gets me the most riled up of any of them — at least it will feel that way until I begin writing about the next one and the one after that! […]
READ MOREWhat’s next for the almost 700 new believers in Christ?! We have a large church within a mega church, but the two have very different needs. If you are one of the individuals who have trusted in Christ as you Lord and Savior this year, your next move is clearly outlined in scripture. You can […]
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