After washing his disciples’ feet, Jesus spends the next while comforting his disciples. He talks about how he will always be with them, and how they will be sent the Holy Spirit after he is gone. But then he breaks into a reality check. 18“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated [...]
Check this link out – the pictures are stunning. Dreaming… Care to dream with us? Can you picture yourself there yet?
The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches holds annual regional focus retreats where pastors and elders can get together and encourage each other and build relationship. The Northwest Focus Retreat is just the Northwest District, so most everybody knows each other… except us. This was the first retreat where we as Community of Hope’s leadership board [...]
Speaking blessing to someone in prayer is immensely powerful. My wife blew me away on Monday night with that one. Repentance works. I laid my bad attitude at work before the Lord in prayer this morning as I drove. I’ve been incredibly, illogically upbeat ever since. Sometimes, even when you think the worst of someone, [...]
As a service to those who may be considering joining our team, I thought I would begin to collect links to Medicine Hat so you can read about the community – what it offers and its needs. I will create a link at the top to the page. Enjoy! Here it is: Medicine Hat Links
Ran across this youtube from Medicine Hat’s News. It is about their school system, and how they need more. I present this here because this represents important information for us. A high demand for schools means growth, and young families. We relate, and that is a big segment of the people we are hoping to [...]
It seems like my graduation represented the opening of some kind of floodgate to evangelistic opportunities. Last week, I had two people contact me through Facebook whom I didn’t really know that well, who came to me for advice and I was able to share much of the Gospel with each of them. It was [...]
I should post more often so that I don’t end up trying to summarize an intensely busy week in a post short enough not to bore you all to tears. Let me quickly summarize the events of the past week: Wednesday – Staging for 1st Community of Hope Leadership Retreat. Phil tasked me with setting [...]
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Some time back I signed up for some free podcasts from Nelson Searcy (incidentally, the sheer volume of advertising I get from that guy, I wonder if he is more about the selling of how to build a church than he is about churches… but I digress) and as a result I get emails from [...]
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