Hidden Agendas

9 But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. 10 They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” 11 And they paid …

Churches and Racial Seperation

I am hesitant to write this post namely because I cannot control how people will respond to it.  I also want to admit there is a host of history I am aware of but am not trained in that precludes the issues we will address in this post. However, I am struggling with the ramifications …

The Dirty Seven and the Church 3 – Lying Tongue

We are continuing a series of how people perceive the church and using Proverbs 6:16-19 (7 Deadly Sins) as a framework for our discussion. 16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked …

Youth Ministry 6.3 #31 – Philip Jenkins (Unity)

You will enjoy this one!

I got your back…

Learned a valuable lesson last week when my computer crashed due to a virus: always have your files backed-up.  I decided one day to purchase one year of off-site back-up from MOZY in case some nerd sent a virus to my computer and caused it to crash.  Well it seems that nerds are hard at …

Get to know you column in bulletins…

Seems like a no-brainer but I am having a "get to know you column" in my space for a bulletin.  This certainly is not a unique idea but so often I have people at my church ask me, "Who is so-and-so that was just baptized?"  My response is, "Are you kidding?  You have been attending …

Memphoplin (Part 1)

For the first time in a long time I have the opportunity to blog.  I was out of pocket for most of June with back-to-back mission trips and we have VBS this week so my blogging has been pathetic at-best.  What I wanted to do is share a few stories about what we did as …