ReThinking Church
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am currently reading Mike Erre’s book, Death by Church. As I was reading a chapter this morning I came across a paragraph that I wanted to share with you. He...
View ArticlePepperdine Lectures
I’m heading to Malibu on Tuesday for the Pepperdine Lectureship. I’ve been saying Malibu a lot lately. I’m super pumped because I have never been to California and my first ever trip will be to...
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I had a wonderful time at the Pepperdine Lectureship this year. It truly is an amazing experience. There was beautiful scenery, Christ-filled people, uplifting praise, and Spirit-gifted preachers and...
View ArticleMessed Up By The Gospel
At Pepperdine I attended a class taught by Thomas Fitzpatrick. He is the campus minister on Pepperdine’s campus. His class title intrigued me – Illegal Aliens, Bottled Water, Nike Shoes, and...
View ArticleCan’t Hide Anymore
I’ve discovered that as a youth, campus, associate, or worship minister you can have many nontraditional beliefs, and yet be able to keep them to yourself. Once you become the preacher there is no...
View ArticleBeing Saved
For Paul salvation is not just a one time event. It is not just something that happened in the past. Paul has no problem speaking of salvation as an ongoing event. There are times when he speaks of...
View ArticleThe Minimally Decent Samaritan
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works… ~ Eph. 2:10 I am a huge Seinfeld fan. In the final two episodes ever created Jerry and the gang find themselves in pretty hot...
View ArticleGiving Up?
Well, I’ve thought many times that I should just shut down this blog. I don’t ever update it (my last post was June 2). But someone sent me a message suggesting I need to update. So, here I am. No...
View ArticleWHO?
Last week I started a new sermon series that our LIFE Groups would also be following. The series is called WHO? The idea is that there are certain relationships that all of us need in order to run the...
View ArticleGreat Communion was Great!
The Great Communion service at Harrison High School was everything I hoped it would be. The attendance was great. We had between 550 and 600 people in the school auditorium. All four churches (ours,...
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