I love long weekends.  Yesterday was a great time of relaxing at home… then I got the call to go play golf with my friend Kent Rogers.  Good round of golf… GREAT conversation and encouragement! Sunday was a great day at Journey despite being a holiday weekend.  Crowd was decent for a holiday, and even [...]

This week’s “borrowed” post comes from someone that I don’t normally read but I have a lot of friends who do… Dr Russell Moore from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  Maybe it’s because I went to Southeastern! I was catching up on Twitter when I saw this link from Mark Driscoll that talked about the Gospel, [...]

Have you ever had one of those crazy busy weeks?  I know you have.  This was/is one of those weeks for me.  Since I have entered the bivocational world of ministry again, juggling ministry at Journey and a marketplace ministry through Kathy Powell State Farm (you should really be her facebook friend!) plus the new [...]

Totally felt like crud today– fighting a cold/congestion and wondered if I would be able to make it through the message today. Probably prayed longer and harder for the service, our people and a spirit of expectation today… Prayer was answered!  God showed up in a big way today. There were many breakthroughs in people’s [...]

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 [...]

We’ve been in this message series called – RED LETTERS.  We’re looking at the words of Jesus and how they can help us become more like Him.  Today, I want to find out what your favorite RED LETTERS are.  What are the words, sayings and teachings of Jesus that have impacted your life and faith [...]

Began a new series at Journey today– RED LETTERS… looking at the words of Jesus.   Had a great time preaching the first message… but I’m going to warn you, this message series is going to be challenging… we may run some people off OR God may just blow the doors off our church! Great [...]

I’m a big fan of Logos Bible Software. I’ve been using the Alpha and the Beta versions of Logos4Mac… so when I woke up to see that they were shipping the final product October 1st I was pretty pumped. If you know anything about Alpha and Beta Versions of software you know that there are [...]

One of the things I talked about this past Sunday was cultivating a sense of desperation.   That sounds, and is, counterintuitive  to our nature and our culture.  We want to be, and in many cases, are taught to be self sufficient, self reliant.  That’s the American Way.  The stories we hear more often are [...]

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 [...]