This week I got to hang out with some church planters that are doing it well in their churches.  Wednesday I went to Birmingham and spent the day at the Developing Churches Network roundtable.  We talked about family ministry and small groups.  Great stuff and lots of info shared.  Thursday, Andrew Kulp, our Growth Group [...]

I feel like I’ve been living the last week at warp speed.  So, today, I’m just going to do a mind dump of all the stuff I’ve been thinking about as I lay awake at night. I’m blessed and amazed that God called me to be a church planter. Auburn is an incredible town and [...]

This has been an incredibly wild week for our family and our church.  Someone broke into our house (that also doubles as the church office) on Thursday.  I came home from a lunch appointment and went to check my email and my laptop was gone… I looked around and another computer was missing and then [...]

I went to see Wild Hogs this weekend with a couple of guys on our Navigation Team.  This was one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time… I’d even pay to see it again!  Better than that, I had an incredible time with 2 of my best friends and we all laughed [...]

I’m looking forward to this Sunday for a couple of reasons:1.  I just love being with our people at Journey… they’re my best friends, people I’ve chosen to do life with.2.  We get to baptize a couple of people who have gone public with their faith.  As much as I love teaching and leading our [...]

I usually get up early in the morning… 4:00 or 4:30am and have my personal worship time (before you think…’Man, this guy is SO Spiritual’… that’s also the time our new puppy gets up and has to go outside… it’s like having a baby in the house again).  So since I’m up, I take advantage [...]

Yesterday was a great day at Journey.  We had LOTS of first time guests…Attendance was up, even with the time change… and the band ROCKED! As I left the church yesterday I was pumped about what’s going on at our church.  You guys are so great at doing whatever it takes to reach disconnected people!  [...]

In my personal worship time I’ve always tried to incorporate reading a Proverb a day.  Someone taught me that a long time ago… they said because there are 31 chapters, you can get a daily dose of wisdom if you read one a day. Well, a few days ago I was reading Proverbs 4 and [...]

I’ve learned so much since planting this church.  Like, Sunday rolls around every 7 days and somebody’s gotta teach. So you’ve got to prepare and prepare well.  Being at the church planters conference took me out of my rhythm and prep schedule… but it was so worth it!…So, we get to Sunday morning…we’re finishing up [...]

As I get back into this blogging world… I had to ask myself, "what do I think I’m doing?… Do I have the time?  Do I even have anything to say?  Well, I talked with some bloggers at the churchplanters.com conference and realized that some would think I’m just jumping on the blogging bandwagon… but [...]