The tricky part about inviting someone to church is that they are usually a little skeptical about how much you really care. They sometimes wonder things like,   Will YOU be there the day you invited them to come? Will you act like you know them when they come up to you at church? […]

Sunday Evening Mind Dump

Looked like even more people this week! Time change didn’t keep’m from coming! Praise God—Impact continues to grow! What’s one of the ways to know that you’re a believer? FRUIT. Gotta have it. There’s no such thing as a fruitless Christ follower. The final group in the ‘Parable of the Sower’ was the “Good Soil” […]

The Sunday Evening Mind Dump!

•    Today we baptized 42 people in week 7 of our brand new church! 42 people stepped forward to identify with Jesus Christ (His way)! The celebration, tears and overall presence of the Lord is why baptisms are some of my very favorite services at church! •    Biggest attendance since Grand opening! Last week we […]

Deeper

We’re going deep this Sunday @ Impact Church! This Sunday I will be preaching a message on baptism that will remove all doubt and confusion about this strange, commanded sacrament from Jesus. If you or anyone you know has a big question mark floating above them when it comes to baptism, invite them to Impact […]

YOLO!

YOLO If you haven’t seen this acronym written somewhere or heard it tossed around, I’m not sure you’re living above ground. It’s everywhere these days. But just incase you are one of the subterraneans, I’ll go ahead and save you a google search. It stands for, “You Only Live Once.” You Only Live Once… Hmm […]

Sunday Evening Mind Dump!

  ·      Today was our last time together as a launch team—next week Impact Church goes live!! Woot! Woot! ·      The last two weeks have seen a veritable bee-hive of activity at Impact Church! In the span of 2 weeks, we have moved from one 10:00 service to 2 services (9:00 and 11:00). We have […]

Church or Movement?

Churches we have. By last count, (2010 to be exact) there are about 350,000 churches in America. About 314,000 of those are protestant. 24,000 are Catholic and the rest are non-Christian in nature. Wow! That’s a lot of churches! And I’ve planted several myself. Yet here I am venturing out one more time against all […]

If you Build it They Will Come!

It’s one of the most memorable lines from one of the most memorable films— “Field of Dreams.” It’s also one of the cheesiest lines in movie history because, well, if you mow down ten acres of corn and spend tens of thousands to erect a professional sized baseball diamond so that Shirley McClain and Deepac […]

Sunday Evening Mind Dump

•    Wow! It’s the middle of the summer—everyone (including me) is looking ahead for people to return from vacation and for our Grand Opening on August 25th. Then, out of the blue—we got a mini grand opening today! Great crowd, incredible enthusiasm, red shirt volunteers everywhere! Can’t wait for the real deal! •    It was […]

Sunday Evening Mind Dump!

·      Today we took a look at a very familiar and seemingly straight-forward story in Luke 4—The time Jesus was tempted in the wilderness for 40 days. We faced some hard truths about how easy it is for Christians to play the old kindergarten game where everyone sits in a circle and the first person […]