VBS — Greater than ever! This year’s VBS is by far the best I’ve ever seen at Southbrook Church! After last year I would have thought our volunteers would be hard pressed to do better, but they’ve raised the bar again! 10 notches! And they say a picture is worth a thousand words so, here […]
READ MORELast week my son and I wrapped up another great season of soccer with one major difference from the previous 7. This year he played for the Southbrook Legacy Sports league! At first I was a bit skeptical about putting him in this league. Afterall, he’s played several years of fairly competitive soccer and this […]
READ MORE…with no one around. Was it ever really there? This is one of the great time wasters of philosophy 101 class. But today a church planter seemed discouraged enough to ask a question that struck me much the same. And this time I did not see it as a waste of time. “My church is […]
READ MOREI’m still amazed by the entire concept of this “One Prayer” undertaking. Stop and think about this for a moment. More than 1500 chruches now (they are still joining this thing) and close to a million people completely unified in their desire to see God do great things for His glory and honor! Today we […]
READ MOREHey 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 […]
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