Baptism Service

I know I am not the first but I will still say, IT WAS AWESOME!  We had a great time celebrating people getting baptized and showing the publicly what God has done and is doing within their own personal lives.
Plus the time of hanging out and getting to know each other better was great too.
If [...]

Been thinking

I was sitting in service yesterday listening to the sermon and was noticing how few of the people in attendence were actually reading out of their own personal Bibles.  This kind of struck me.
I started thinking, “well there must be some reason”, and the conclusions I came to were thus:
1. People don’t have one.
2. People [...]

Mother’s Day +1

How was yours?  Did you do anything awesome?
Ours was pretty cool.  Had a great time at church and then went to my parent’s house and ate and hung out with the fam.  Then followed it up with a great time watching The Office with Lisa last night.

Taken Care Of

God totally takes care of us!

A Year of Firsts

This past Saturday, Lisa and I were able to celebrate having Melody in our lives for 1 entire year.  It was a great time of food, family, and more food.  This really was a year of first for us, our first Easter as a family, our first Mother’s and Father’s days, our first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, and now [...]

Shredding Pow!

In an effort to relieve some of the pressure of always writing something intelligent about church vision, growth or Life Groups I wanted to talk about my day today.

I went up to the mountain today to “shred some pow” (I heard a cool lookin’ kid say that) and it was totally

Challenge

The last two days Joe and I have been at the NW Baptist Convention’s annual Evangelism Conference (it was as awesome as it sounds).  Obviously the main emphasis of everything was evangelism (or telling people about Christ), but I felt challenged in myself to do something intentional and to challenge you all as well.

Rage Against the Lameness pt.6

This one blew my mind. I was listening to some new songs via a website I frequent, worshiptogether.com, and heard a new song by Chris Tomlin, or so I thought.  Chris Tomlin has been putting out great music for churches for a long time, like 10 years or more.  But to my surprise this song [...]

Rage Against the Lameness pt. 5

The front man from Christian punk rock band Switchfoot departs from the electric guitar driven power riffs and heavy drum beats and slides into a more intimate and stripped down style.  This first album (EP) by Jon Foreman, the solo artist, is a refreshing breath of air from the contemplative rocker.  The deep lyrics and Jon’s [...]

Rage Against the Lameness pt.4

The Myriad has been around for a couple years but are just now kind hitting their stride a big time band.  I was able to see them in concert about 2 months ago with the David Crowder Band and Phil Wickham and they freakin’ rocked!  They are currently involved in a contest put on by MTV.2 called [...]