The book of Numbers (in the Bible) finds finds a lot of people fighting back yawns as they attempt to trudge through it on their way through all 66 books of the Bible. If you made it through Leviticus, you’re sure to wither away in the wasteland of Numbers—they reason. Other slow going, thick and soupy books […]
READ MOREAs we continue our journey through the gospel of John at SCC—we will arrive (beginning THIS weekend) at the first of two of the most evangelical passages in all of scripture: The late night schooling of Nicodemus (ch. 3) The encounter with the ‘Woman at the Well (ch. 4). The first would be the […]
READ MOREThis morning I challenged the men of Southbrook to consider something different for their sons this Christmas than the run of the mill stuff that will break or be discarded (whichever comes first) by January. I had them think about how it was that ‘Daniel’ from the Old Testament rose repeatedly to the highest places […]
READ MORESo many thoughts floating around in my head. This could easily be a SERIES, but I will refrain and keep it short. Today was an all around great day! High turn out at Southbrook Weddington. I guess people were pretty interested in the subject matter. We’re going through the gospel of John, and today we […]
READ MOREBefore you go off on this title thinking I’m being ‘snooty,’ consider some great leaders who subscribed whole heartedly to the law of the inner circle… King David had some hand-picked men even among the mightiest of his mighty men. And, finally, there was his best friend, Jonathan General Robert E. Lee attributed most […]
READ MOREFor the last several weeks, I have been in the book of Acts for my morning quiet time. I’m nearing the end now—the part where the apostle Paul is taken by ship to Rome to stand trial before Caesar. And here’s what gives… The Lord has told Paul that this is his future—to stand before […]
READ MOREAs we trek through the Gospel of John we arrive at some pretty interesting and controversial passages. This weekend is the first of them—Miracle numero uno for Jesus—water to wine. So many questions… So much fighting… Is it okay for a Christian to drink alcohol? Was it real wine Jesus turned the water into or […]
READ MORECongratulations! Let’s celebrate! This (yiddish) word has several different meanings but the gist of it is a sense of congratulations followed by a celebration. The Black Eyed Peas use it right in their song, “I Gotta Feeling!” It’s interesting that they use a word wrapped around Jewish culture—maybe the Peas ‘get it.’ Nah, but I do. […]
READ MOREWorship is Jamin these days! As most of you know by now, Southbrook hired Greg Carr to take over worship—AND, take it up a notch, or 10! And he’s already done great things in only ONE MONTH! Can’t wait to see what the future brings! It was just about this time last year that we […]
READ MOREWhat are a babies first words? “Da-Da” Nothing new there. But the other day I was reading about how that was the case typically with little Hebrew babies as well. “Big deal,” you say. “I’ll be sure and log that away.” Well, before you do—log it in file 13, that is—consider this. The Hebrew equivalent […]
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