I was just reading on Just a Minute about people who think they can call themselves a follower of Jesus but then not believe what he said in the Bible. The author began to make a good point about how Jesus proved himself God by predicting his death and resurrection. Then it occurred to me [...]
This week Community of Hope has 12 missionaries up for a week to help us with our summer push – the “Campaign of Kindness”. We have a fully staffed park program running in one of the major parks in our area, and we also have four or five teams who went out last night to [...]
It was an action-packed night last night. We had our biggest baptism service since we launched, with six people taking the plunge. Everyone had dramatically different stories, but they all had a common thread – a desire to take seriously their commitment to follow Jesus. Especially remarkable were the Weston family and a character named [...]
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I was looking at my google ad sidebar, and noticed the first ad was a reference to some authors I have already reviewed on this blog – Nelson and Searcy, the authors of “Launch“. I clicked through and they have an offer for church leaders and planters to download 4 lectures on subjects related to [...]
I have always known there isn’t enough time in a day to accomplish what needs to be done or enough days in a week or weeks in a month. I look at my to do list and feel like it is doing me rather than me doing it, if that makes any sense. My kids [...]
I’ve been reading Ed Stetzer’s Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age lately. It is beastly-long as compared to the quick read that Launch was. I was trying to catch some rays and darken the skin a little before we head to Florida at the end of the month for a little iGo action and [...]
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On the weekend we had a meeting to shake down the way our small groups will look this fall. As our church grows I don’t know how long this way of deciding groups will last. With regards to my group, there are several things I feel we did wrong last year. And there are several [...]
On thing that taking on this Awana ministry has taught me is the use of a calendar. Many times before I thought I was busy enough for using a calendar, but it always tailed off. Now that I have to look months ahead, I have had to get much more dedicated to the use of [...]
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Attendees: 10 including Cheryl and I. People who would have come but life intervened: 4. People who were invited and said on Sunday they’d come: 17. People we need at minimum to run the program this September: 19. I could be disappointed, but I’m really not. For some reason, God has given me a sense [...]
I was conversing by email with a new friend of mine who is seeking God’s will about planting a church in Whistler. She asked me how we knew God wanted us to join Community of Hope. This is what I wrote, edited slightly to include references. As for how we ascertained God’s will with regards [...]
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