It's Like Herding Cats

I've been a follower of Jesus for 34 years now. I've seen the church go from "Flakes formula" to the "growth spiral...

I'm sitting in my office at church surrounded by a couple thousand of my closest friends - my books. Bunny walks in, looks around, and s...

We're looking at revamping what we do in a number of areas, and one of those is the way we approach youth discipleship. I think we are a...

- Wow, that was a fast sermon! I knew that without all the heavy contextual work it would be shorter than the past few weeks, but it was mu...

"The church which effectively reaches people is willing to sacrifice its preferences for God’s passion." - David Wilson I'm go...

Small Groups start soon. Some quotes from the first chapter of the book. "We are a culture that relies on technology over community ......

Wednesday is a push day for Bunny and me, and is kind of a blur from daybreak to evening, but after finishing Tom Davis ' novel "Sc...

10 And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. 11 So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapo...

Diane Weech pumps up the crowd, Scott Marston and John Anderson on the ice production, and Ryan Marston and JoAnn Smith on flavors. Producti...

I think this was taken about 5 years ago when we were up in Macon. He'd have turned 89 today. The last couple of years were really tough...

1 One day the sons of God came again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the Lord...

Ah, irony. We finished looking at the second chapter of Job tonight in Bible study. Job was having a pretty mean string of bad things happen...

Yesterday I wrote about how even though we have seen God work in awesome ways this summer, that there are areas of "needs improvement...

Some Sundays I cannot wait to get home and tell everyone what happened. Others, not so much. Add to that the anxieties caused by Larry Smith...

"What did you learn today via the sermon?" "That there's still a bishop of the church in Philadelphia." arrrrrrrrrrr...

This picture is of a child named Sarah in Uganda who has received a New Testament and is reading Matthew 6:25-34 aloud. 25 "Therefore I...

Well, we began our study of the book of Job last night. I'll be posting a recap every week of what we observed as a group in the text f...

The Biblical truths in this book would rock many Christian's worlds if they were to seriously sit down and study it with an eye toward w...

Actually had a lot of fun with the graphics but they carried a deep truth about Christians who should be full of life and yet are living dea...