We Go Live In, 8…7…6…5… 4 More Days! Can you believe it?! There are hundreds and hundreds of names on the Christmas ornaments at Southbrook Church. Each name represents someone who is far from God. If you have not yet confirmed that rendezvous @ SCC with that individual you better do it now! And here […]
READ MORECall’m Out — Part 2 Have you ever tried herding cats? I haven’t either. My mom loves cats so I’ve been around plenty of them in my day. And one thing you notice about each one of them is that they have a definite mind of their own. For the cat lovers of this blog…brace […]
READ MORETis the season to party! Our Executive pastor, Paul Allen and his wife, Sandy hosted a ministry leader’s drop in tonight (part 2 is tomorrow night) and they’ve been telling us that the people on their street are sort of having a Griswold type battle to see who can use the most electricity per minute. […]
READ MOREI love this! These 5 ladies who paid for this really get it! And check out this post if you still don’t get it with the whole Xmas thing! — Or even if you do get it. It’s a great post!
READ MORECan anyone reading this ever imagine the following? You have a church where the Holy Spirit begins to move in amazing ways—hundreds, if not thousands, are coming to faith in Christ. Marriages are being restored, people are becoming more generous—less self-serving, there’s great joy spreading like the ripple effect when you throw a large rock […]
READ MORESorry I haven’t posted for a couple of days, but blogging sometimes takes a backseat to a little ole thing I like to call, life. Anyway, let’s pick back up with some more of my Christmas rants. Here’s the shirt my parents made me wear to bed on Christmas Eve until I was 10 years […]
READ MOREThis weekend a lot of people learned what it means to make contact with God! We learned that the goal of ‘drawing near’ at this time of year may not be enough. Close only counts, as they say, in horseshoes and hand grenades. But when it comes to embracing the reason for the season nothing […]
READ MORETonight we kicked off our quest to see 200 people receive the ultimate gift of salvation before the end of this year. As we closed out the service almost everyone came forward to write on Christmas ornaments the names of friends, neighbors, co-workers and family who do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In […]
READ MOREA few days ago I wrote a post about the absurdity of Christmas without Christ. Few posts have ever stirred up so much reaction. If you missed it, you can get up to speed here. It was entitled, “No more Xmas!†Perhaps people read it just to see who this pastor was who seemed to […]
READ MORETransformed Other than the Bible, there are several books that I know God used greatly to literally alter the course of my life. I owe a lot to these books and these individuals for helping to ignite an even greater fire in my heart than I ever thought possible. I wanted to share them with […]
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