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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Come On, Hope!
Posted in Christianity, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are about three weeks away from starting a new series of messages at GCF. Called, The Anchor, this series will be based on Hebrews 6.16-18 and will take us through 6 weeks of talking about hope.
As I was sitting in Panera this morning with my Bible open, a blank legal pad and some notes [...]
FACE DOWN: Dealing with the Fire of His Presence
Posted in Christianity, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The prayers of the righteous accomplish wonderful results,” or so says Timothy. We see an incredible example of this in II Chronicles 6. Solomon stands before the entire assembly of the people to offer a prayer of dedication over the Temple. When the prayer was concluded, II Chronicles 7.1-3 tells us that fire came down [...]
