Hey Gang…There’s an AWESOME conference coming up at Newspring church (http://www.newspring.cc/) called, “Unleash.” The pastoral staff is already signed up and going, but it dawned on me that there might be some MP’s out there that would love to go to this thing and get even more FIRED UP for what God is doing and […]
READ MOREI received over 50 e-mails, phone calls, letters and personal encouragements from Brookies who were touched by last weekend’s message. Thank you all for the encouragement you have been to me. As I said, it wasn’t an easy message to share and it was one that I have been fighting God on for years. Praise […]
READ MOREHere, as promised are some of the baby steps that will make a GIANT difference if we all take them together: 1. We need at least 100 of our regular members and attendees to call the new 8:30 video cafe their service. We’ve successfully done this for both the 10:00 and the 11:30 cafes, but […]
READ MOREI’ve heard a lot of folks displaying what I call, ‘Optimistic Schizophrenia.’ Yes, I made it up, thus the statement, ‘what I call.’ What is it you ask? Well it’s the fired up, joy-filled, ecstatic, child-like wonder we all share at seeing God continue to bring people to Southbrook in droves, on the one hand. […]
READ MOREThe weekend is over and I have a funny unfamiliar feeling from it. I mean, I’ve had hints of this feeling before — smaller doses and such, but this was different. This weekend left me feeling a bit like I imagine the Austin Power’s tiny character, Mini Me would feel after a ‘no holds barred’ […]
READ MOREWow! On a good note, lives were obviously touched. I hung around after the message Saturday night longer than I have at any other Saturday in recent memory. There are a lot of hurting people out there. Aren’t you glad we serve Jehovah Rafa (the God who heals)? God is going to restore marriages at […]
READ MOREI love to read. I mean really LOVE TO READ! — to the tune of about 3 or four books a week. So, when a publishing dry spell hits the industry, I’m fit to be tied. About a year ago it seemed nearly the entire 12 months passed without a noteworthy offering. Where were the […]
READ MOREHow are we all doing? Have you made that bold invite yet? — as opposed to sneaking to nearby neighborhoods at 3:00 a.m., tying balloons and a note to several random mailboxes inviting people to Southbrook signed, The Phantom Inviter. I’m with you, rejection is tough. Alas, all I can offer you is this, don’t […]
READ MORECurious? Not even a little? Tough, here it is—the method for gauging our mission (Blues Brothers Style) from God… You see, we simply need to take a look at what we have been averaging over the last month or so and double all the MP’s who step up to the plate (1 for them and […]
READ MOREI was looking over the list of MP’s who identified themselves (via the comment section) many blogs ago. WOW! 50 different families, and that’s just the computer literate bloggers. I had at least twice that identify their interest in being a MMWY (Might Man, Woman, or Young Person) but lack of interest in blogging. Oh […]
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