Getting saved is only half the battle (won). Once rescued by Christ, the new believer is to spend his or her life becoming more and more like Him. But for some odd reason, that happens in only a small minority of believers. For others, they kind of enter a spiritual roller coaster existence, vacillating between […]
READ MOREWhat an awesome day of worship @ Southbrook today! Pastor Rene Joseph really brought it! Straight from the Word (Mark 2 to be exact) with passion unlike any other! If you haven’t spent a week in Haiti with this guy you really should pray about making a short term mission trip to Haiti and seeing […]
READ MOREPosted In Evangelism,Mark The World Are you praying?! I’ll never forget what God did at Delmas 33. Try to imagine the scene as Haitians kept streaming into an old concert venue to hear the gospel for the very first time! I promise you it was 10 times more impactful than that! Hundreds were saved that […]
READ MOREToday was bitter sweet as we celebrated tremendous ministry accomplishments in Monroe over the last several years but also ended a chapter in the life of Southbrook Church. Yes, it’s true that all Monroe outreach endeavors will continue on into the future, however, the multi-site arm of Monroe is closing down. Many have bent the […]
READ MOREThis is the final installment of “A very courageous post,” by Geoff Saurat Planting Pandemic Who knew that church planting could become trendy? My grandfather was a church planter in Oklahoma back in the 1940s and 50s, and it was anything but glamorous. There were no conferences, Web sites or networks; just Grandpa, Grandma, and […]
READ MOREHere is the 3rd installment of posts from a very courageous series on the “Shipwrecked Church”done by pastor Geoff Saurat. For parts one and two–scroll down to earlier posts. Pastor Praise I come from a long, long line of pastors. Every relative on my dad’s side of the family is either a pastor or married […]
READ MOREHere’s part 2 of pastor, Geoff Surratt’s series. I love corporate worship. One of my favorite aspects of working in multisite churches has been visiting multiple worship experiences every weekend. I have participated in as many as six different services in a single weekend, and I love seeing people connect with God through the leadership […]
READ MORENearly everyone has heard of the biblical character, Job. He’s the guy who loved God through pain, loss, betrayal, sickness, a nagging wife and, oh, we wouldn’t want to forget those hideous, rotten to the core, ingrate , so-called “friends” of his either, would we? Yeah, what about those three bone-heads? Not much is ever […]
READ MOREToday I am going to hand my blog over to an incredibly godly and insightful man of God (Geoff Surratt from Seacoast Church) who stood up to say what many are afraid too. It needs to be said and I for one will help spread the message. So, without further adieu, here is part one […]
READ MOREKicked off a mini-series on the book of Jude today. I called it, “Hey Jude.” It was just too easy to name. What began as a desire to teach one of the short books (because we only had a two week gap before our annual, March “Impact Series” began) quickly landed on Jude once I […]
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