A few Sundays back, while I was eating a bagel, smeared with low-fat PB and sugar-free jam, the pastor of another local church, whose services are televised, made this statement to the church in a very gentle and humble way. “We want you to be well. We want you to be healed. We want you [...]
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Great Expectations, GCF! Part 3
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great Expectations, GCF! #1
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I begin two weeks of posts (for a total of ten posts) in which I am going to try to pull together some thoughts on what expectations should exist for Great Commission Fellowship (or any local church, for that matter)
During the first week, I want to focus on what you and I can [...]
Countdown to Roast Goat
Posted in Life, Ministry, church on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, night 1 of our Spring Into Missions weekend has come and gone.
We started tonight with FaceDown Prayer and Worship. The worship was amazing AND we really sought God’s face for the missionaries we were praying for. Thanks to Rochelle and Vince for putting tonight together. It was awesome.
The Lord hit me with I Peter [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Friday E-Letter
Posted in Christianity, Family, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, church on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s this week’s copy of the e-letter that will go out to all GCF’ers on Friday morning . . .
Goodmorning GCF’ers,
My parents are arriving today for a quick visit before heading back to West Virginia late tomorrow. My Dad is going to work with me tomorrow on cleaning out about five Japanese Honey Suckle shrubs [...]
Sermons that Change the Congregation or Sermons that Change the Preacher?
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have two upcoming sermon series that are teaching me something simple and yet somehow very new (at least new to me).
Some time ago I decided that I would do a two part series called Busting the Money Myth and then a series during Lent that focused on hope. This series will be called The Anchor, [...]
