As I was traveling over the weekend I listened to a few sermons from a wide variety of pastors: Charles Stanley, Jon Weece (Southland Christian Church) and Mark Driscoll.
Driscoll had an excellent sermon on the Cross from his doctrine series – if you don’t mind the fact that he used the phrase “I don’t give [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Me or One of the Marks – Driscoll, Batterson, etc.
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday Morning Quarterback
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Life, Ministry, church on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am posting this on Sunday night instead of Monday morning because I will be on my way to WV on Monday morning to pick up Max. Sydney is going with me and it will be good to have the company of my little girl!
What a great day it has been. When the second worship gathering [...]
Back from Them Thar Hills
Posted in Christianity, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Theology on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’m back from West Virginia. Had a nice couple of days there. Max and I had a good time together. He listened to The Magic Tree House, Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), Geronimo Stilton and Stink (Junie B. Jones little brother) on his I-Pod. Apparently he spent most of his time with The Magic [...]
Straight from the Foyer to the Bedroom
Posted in Christianity, Ministry, Theology, church on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was intrigued to read an article in Revmagazine this week about our sociological need for three kinds of space. People, its seems, move on a continuum from public space to social space to private space. As the article points out, this should have churches thinking because we do really well at providing public space, somewhat well [...]
Get the Joy Out
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The discipleship team at GCF recently decided that during the Easter Season (between yesterday and Pentecost Sunday at the end of May) that we would focus on joy as a church-wide theme.
I just finished doing a bit of searching at Amazon.com to find out what books on joy are floating around out in the world. [...]
Half-time Worship
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At our Monday staff meeting at GCF we were looking at some responses to a survey about what people were experiencing during worship this past Sunday. One member of the staff asked, “what do we expect to happen in worship?”
This lead to a lengthy discussion in the meeting that became a long train of thought for me throughout the [...]
