Yesterday about 10:00 a.m. I checked my email and saw that Shane’s granddad is sick in the hospital. If you are a prayer, please pray for him and Shane’s family…even though you may not know them. This is a difficult and trying time for them. I had less than 8 hours to prepare a message […]
Francis Chan on the Bible Belt
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kTjHx_oH_0s] I know what your talking about… I believe that is why God has kept me in the Bible belt area, because I see it everyday, and have grown passionate about seeing unbelievers as well as those who claim to be believers become passionate about Jesus. I’ve grown up watching this very thing. I am […]
The Church Being the Church: A Sunday Review
We canceled services today at church (the church @ greenbrier). Last night several local cities and communities were devastated by tornadoes. As you can see in the picture provided some people lost everything, while others sustained major damage to their homes and property. Reports of businesses and churches being completely destroyed have been circulating, more […]
Life: Message Series
I came up with a 3 session/week series for the winter retreat that I just spoke for, here are the main points or thoughts for each of the sessions. I may put everything up on the resource sharing site for PDYM, but I am not good at providing outlines for other speakers…I have my own […]
West Virginia: Winter Retreat
I head out this afternoon for West Virginia. I’m speaking at a Winter Retreat for a friends church. They are actually in South Carolina, but I am riding with them on their chartered bus to West Virginia. After seeing about 4 or 5 charter bus crashed over the last 2 weeks throughout the US I […]