I’ve heard it said that there are actual cases of human beings bursting into flames for no apparent reason. I mean, you can read about it on the internet, so it must be true. Actually, I don’t care if it’s true or not (I might feel differently if I suddenly burst into flames, but I’m […]
READ MOREThis weekend will be a concert to remember as Southbrook Church’s many praise and worship teams assemble to celebrate the release of their first CD, “Return.†After that we begin what I believe will be one of the most life-changing series we’ve ever done at SCC… IGNITE! It will be a time where each and […]
READ MOREFasten Your Seatbelts! We’ve spent the last two days as a staff hashing through some pretty deep stuff. We’ve been learning how to work together, deal with conflict, and build trust. We spent the last half of today sharing our dreams. Each pastor and director revealed their heart’s desires, their biggest dreams and goals for […]
READ MOREAdvance I like the way Mark Driscoll refers to these leadership getaways better. For us it wasn’t a time of relaxation or retreating. It was a time of charging forward and advancing on Satan’s territory more and more each day! And it all began with a little personality exploration… Personality Plus by […]
READ MOREWhat 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 […]
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