What Do You Do When You Hit a Wall? Weeks one and two of Impact Church’s series, “When You Hit a Wall,” went great. It’s honestly one of my favorite church services in forever. My wife, Michelle felt the same. This morning was week two of the series and twice as many people showed up […]
READ MOREIf you missed the first one in this mini-series, click here. Did you know truthfulness often cost Jesus greatly? Let’s start with the 7 “I Am” statements of Jesus. There are many websites that talk talk about these, but most agree that the following are the 7 major ones. One good post I found was […]
READ MORETruth is costly. Ever notice that? Now lies? They’re another story—dime a dozen on the front end. But let’m sit long enough and they’ll cost you even more than truth. They’ll cost you everything. Make sense? No? Then allow me to back up a bit and perhaps it will. Truth is a Rolls Royce. It’s […]
READ MOREThis past weekend was filled with intense experiences, emotions and feelings—polar opposites in many cases. On the one hand, there’s the awkwardness and anger—on the other, the mercy and compassion. But the greatest of those is the love and support the Singleton’s felt from the body of Christ who are so gracious and forgiving. It […]
READ MOREYou’re not ‘Chicken’ if you defend marriage! For the last couple of weeks, Chick-Fil-A has come under enormous attack for, wait for it… Saying they agree with God on marriage being only between one man and one woman. For this, politicians and Hollywood “stars” (as well as well known musicians) have demanded they be punished, […]
READ MOREThis past week was not typical for the Singleton family. The of us traveled to up state New York and the beautiful Adirondack mountains to the place where my own life was forever changed—Word of Life Island, Schroon Lake, New York. Two years ago I traveled there just to return to the ginormous evergreen where […]
READ MOREToday we continued our journey through the book of Ecclesiastes and our, “Game of Thrones” series with the 12th installment—a message entitled, “Formula God.” We’ve been in chapter 7 of Ecclesiastes for 3 weeks now. What can I say? There’s a ton of good stuff in there! And, believe it or not, we still didn’t […]
READ MOREEach summer something strange and wonderful happens to Southbrook Church—the adults fade to the background and the students takeover…everything! Today was the 2nd annual Student takeover Sunday for our students and they did not disappoint! Their fearless leader, Billy Almaguer convinced me last year to let the students run the show and I was so […]
READ MOREWhat a week @ Southbrook Church! First, we saw the return of a group of 15 folks who hiked to the peaks of the mountains of Peru in order to bring hundreds of Bibles to the Quechua people—Bibles in their very own language! Imagine the thrill to hand a new believer the very Word of […]
READ MOREThis is the title we’ve given this next year @ Southbrook Church—“The Year of Discipleship.” Sounds pretty impressive, huh? But what in the world does it mean? Well, let’s start with what it doesn’t mean. It doesn’t mean that this is the one and only year we’re giving a rip about discipline people. It […]
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