I spent a good portion of the day today unplugged at Umstead State Park. Many thanks to the park rangers and volunteers who make Unstead Sate Park an incredible retreat in the midst of a metropolitan environment. I want to challenge to unplug from your daily routine in order to plug into the voic[...]
Archive for September, 2007
September 26th, 2007 - 10:32 am § in Uncategorized
Back in God’s Kindergarten
There is a book by Robert Fulghum entitled “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten“. God has been leading me this week in two Kindergarten lessons for Church Planting: Patience & Endurance. Patience – Why does good news seem to be the tortoise and bad news the h[...]
September 24th, 2007 - 2:13 pm § in Core Values, Ruth
Monday Morning Sermon Quarterback
I am preparing to listen to yesterday’s message. I am following my principle: “if you want others listen to you, you have to be willing to listen to yourself.” It is always a little painful, especially when we hit as many hot button topics as we did yesterday. On a day like this [...]
September 20th, 2007 - 5:19 pm § in Be The Church
BIG MEETING TOMORROW
We have a big meeting tomorrow with the owner of “Pump It Up” to try to work out a deal for renting their facility for our Sunday morning services. We will send out an email tomorrow afternoon to give everyone an update. Please be in prayer. A couple of women from TrueLife were led[...]
September 19th, 2007 - 9:15 am § in Ruth
Boaz, Beer, and a Late Night Visitor
I am gearing up for Sunday’s message, Ruth 3 is a very difficult chapter to exegete with any kind of contextual accuracy, and hits many hot button topics like sex, marriage, aggressive women, male/female communication, alcohol, parties, and salvation. Sunday is going to be fun! Pray for me[...]
September 14th, 2007 - 6:52 pm § in Be The Church
And a Gong was Heard at NCSU
I spent the day today with Brian Hargett and the students of Chi Alpha in the brickyard on the campus of North Carolina State University. We were talking to students as another crazy preaching group yelled at anyone willing to listen that all “homos are going to hell.” We spent the ti[...]
September 13th, 2007 - 3:56 pm § in Uncategorized
Worship: Soundtrack for My Life
I continue to mull over this concept of my life set to music. Every person has a rhythm and a melody. Some of us are high paced, like a John Phillip Sousa march, while others of us are easy-going as a Jack Johnson beach song. (A funny observation: A high paced march can never be played [...][...]
September 11th, 2007 - 9:38 pm § in Uncategorized
XA: UNC
It was great to be with Chi Alpha on the UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. What a great group of Christ followers being the church to their community! The video that we couldn’t get to work tonight is posted below. Much thanks also to the Campus Police who gave our car a jump-start because the [...][...]
