Here’s a clip of the Grace music team practicing for Easter. If you look close, you can see our brand new drum kit and our incredibly excited drummer. They’re doing a stellar job, and I am wicked excited for them to lead worship on Easter. There are 200 seats in our auditorium. I believe God… Read More »
Every once in awhile, I am asked about what I take to the pulpit with me. The answer is – as little as possible. I carry a Thinline Bible with no room in the margins for jotting distracting notes. I do bring a rough summary of the ideas from the Scripture and one or two… Read More »
My co-laborer and friend, Darin Shaw, has started posting a series of thoughts called “A Preacher on Preaching” highlighting some of his thoughts on sermon preparation and delivery. (You can catch some thoughts here and here.) I thought I would do a sort of parallel series of posts from my perspective on the topic. Diversity… Read More »
So, Jesus and the apostle Paul are givens and I am not one to offer super-spiritual thoughts in things like this. Here are my five biggest influences in the way I think and work. #5 – P.T. Barnum For all of his quirks, P.T. Barnum was probably the greatest showman and entrepreneur of American history.… Read More »
– Rich Mullins, The World Best As I Remember It, vol 1 – Now Balaam, he had a donkey Who was gentle and true and kind And the donkey saw an angel with a sword So he slipped old Balaam past him And when he done it three times Well, Balaam got so me mad… Read More »
…Not afraid to look a little nervous …or serious …or a little crazy. …a friend to all …regardless of age …or skin tone …or nation of origin …or language (Bob and Paul are deaf) …or questionable level of sanity. Yeah, my wife Nichole is a good woman. She isn’t a ‘home maker’ and she’ll never… Read More »
Over the past couple of weeks, we have started taking suggestions for the name of our merged congregation. As you can see, our five year old daughter has really taken the task in hand and continually submits ideas. Some of the suggestions have been good, but the elders have had some more-or-less unwritten guidelines as… Read More »
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