Where God Guides, He Provides

I’ve decided to add a new weekly feature to my blog for a while. For an indefinite number of weeks, I’ll be re-posting some of the defining, favorite or popular posts from my old blog. Don’t worry; it’ll only be one time a week. The rest of the time will be [...]

Wild Week Continues…

More from Wild Week at Keystone Church in Keller…

It’s been a good week in spite of the flood producing rains that have fallen every single night!
See more here.

Wednesday Weigh-In #7

No great progress this week…
The Weigh-In:
Last week: 208 pounds
This week: 208 pounds (There must be an echo in here… Turning the 20 pack into a 6 or 8 pack:
Last week: 41 inches
This week: 41 1/2 inches (Whoops. That can’t be good… Pressing on…

Snapshot of a New Church

I’m always motivated when a new church plant starts off well.
And a church plant that recently did just that is Pine Ridge Church in Burlington, North Carolina. They kicked things off this past weekend with a huge community event and the first of three monthly preview services.

Tadd Grandstaff is the pastor and his excitement [...]

The Pursuit of Holiness

I am currently re-reading the book, “The Pursuit of Holiness” by Jerry Bridges, and it is chewing on me as much as I am chewing on it.
I once taught a class through this book, and have read it at least twice over the years. It is one of those books that isn’t very long, [...]

Wild Week

At the last minute, Leona and I volunteered to help with “Wild Week” at Keystone Church.

 

There were about 80 kids signed up as of yesterday, and most of the registrations for the week were made online. Should be a number of “walk-in’s” tonight, also…

 

 

One of the great things about being plugged in with Keystone [...]

Rick and Ed on Evangelism for Church Growth

One of the most refreshing and motivating podcasts I’ve heard in a long time is a conversation between Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and Ed Young Jr. of Fellowship Church on the importance of evangelism for church growth.

These guys are “smoking what they’re selling,” and it shows through their passion and the fruit of their [...]

Wednesday Weigh-In #6

Well what do you know, it’s actually on a Wednesday, this time!
The Weigh-In:
Last week: 209 pounds
This week: 208 pounds (That was one pound that was stinking hard to lose… Turning the 20 pack into a 6 or 8 pack:
Last week: 41 1/2 inches
This week: 41 inches ( Not sure [...]

Rain and Roof

We had some flooding around the area, yesterday. Leona and I were up when the storm blew through, and recorded the moment for posterity.

Link for email and feed readers:
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4430293541364701964&hl=en]
By this afternoon, it was sunny again, but the storm had messed up a few shingles on our roof. So I borrowed a ladder [...]

Compass Church Initial Strategy in Plain English

I was really inspired by the clarity of the communication style of the “Rss in Plain English” video of the “Common Craft Show.” So much so that I decided to rip it off.
Yesterday I created a video providing a simple answer to the question, “So what’s the plan?” in relationship to starting “Compass [...]