Today’s blatantly plagiarized post comes from StevenFurtick.com. Many of you know Pastor Steven as one of the brightest young leaders and communicators around.  He has the ability to inspire and present the Gospel effectively way beyond his years.  He wrote recently about THE FUNK.  We’ve all been there–even pastors get the funk… and no I’m [...]

What a great Sunday after a long week of getting kids in school and preparing for college students to come back. We finished up 5 Things that Grow Your Faith… I LOVED this series… we saw some real life change happening… not just in the way of people taking their Next Step, but also through [...]

Yesterday was a fun day at Journey– a lot of it had to do with the A/C working a little better in the Worship Center! We had guests come back… that’s always a good sign that we didn’t weird them out too much! We had more first time guests yesterday– one of them I ran [...]

I’m back after a week away from blogging. It was a Great day at Journey yesterday… I can tell summer is coming to an end… some people are taking last minute vacations and some are looking to get plugged into a church. We had both yesterday! Great conversations with our first time guests.  I love [...]

I’m absolutely loving what God is doing in this series- 5 Things to Grow your Faith. It was great seeing new faces and friends back that we haven’t seen in a while. I could really sense God moving through the entire service this morning. The big challenge we gave everyone today— Read the Sermon on [...]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by my old boss at State Farm to see if I could help them out for a few days.  They had some office turnover and needed someone to answer phones, receive payments and generally be a nice guy to people who came into the office.  Before we launched [...]

Good Crowd yesterday. The band really rocked… but more than that… they led us to worship the King. We kicked off OnePrayer yesterday with Steven Furtick from Elevation Church in Charlotte.  As always he shucked the corn! He talked about the Unstoppable Power of God!  Here are some nuggets from yesterday’s message: The sermon doesn’t [...]

Mother’s Day was a great day around our house.  I’m so grateful for my wife Sonja, who is an amazing Christian, wife and mother to our 2 children.  She truly lives out Proverbs 31! Steve Redmer is doing an awesome job leading our Creative Arts team.  I just found of our college students who sing/play/serve [...]

I had fun today at Journey Church!  Trey Erwin taught today and did a fantastic job.  God’s hand is all over this guy and I’m grateful he’s on our team and that he has a heart for missional living. He’s heading to Germany for the summer to work with the International Mission Board of the [...]

A few days ago i was in a lunch meeting with some pastors.  The conversation turned to our Top 5 Most Influential books we’ve read.  I need to mention that this meeting was full of deep theological thinkers– and yes, I did feel out of place– But it was interesting to hear their top 5 [...]