8:50 is the New 7:50

Have you ever had one of those days where you had stuff planed to do but you didn’t really get any of it done because other things came up? Today was one of those days for me. It started this morning, I sent out an email letting some people know where I would be today, […]

Why Sermon Based Small Groups?

This post is by Larry Osborne, he has some great insights as to why the sermon based small group model is optimal for discipleship. At North Coast Church, where I serve as senior pastor, we’ve had a long and interesting journey with small groups. We had no groups when we first started out. But after […]

Captivated

Our Captivated series begins this Sunday

A Fear that Ruins a Church

Yes, just like the last post on this subject, the topic came out of a conversation I had with a pastor friend of mine a few weeks ago and from that conversation I jotted down a few blog ideas. This is the 4th. So if you are visiting this blog for the first time or […]

A Basic Truth Concerning Pastors

The idea for this post was born a few weeks ago while I was listening to a friend of mine talk about his church. From our conversation I realized there are a few misconceptions about what the Pastorate is and what it isn’t. So I scribbled down a few blog post ideas on the subject. […]

Let them say it

I was struck today while reading the Bible with David and his response to a critic that was jeering at Him as he left Jerusalem. The scene was when David was leaving Jerusalem because his son Absolum had taken over the kingdom. A fufliment of a prophecy that was made against David, spoken by the […]