The Cutting Board for – Captivated 2

Here is a portion I cut from the sermon from today… It was an important part but just didn’t fit into the flow of things in the end… thus it was left on the cutting room floor. How do we become captivated by God’s word? Pray that God will enlarge your heart 119:32 – (I […]

The Change #4

This year as you know is Steven Curtis Chapman’s 25th anniversary of being in ministry. We have Joined him a few times in that celebration with post like “The Top 5 SCC Albums” and The Top 10 SCC Songs. Today I wanted to post a video of one of the Songs from my Top 10 […]

God has a Broom

God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes we give ourselves a mess we can’t handle… Yep…. that’s right…. all the hard times you go through in life are not all sent from God, we tend to create them for ourselves… more often than we realize. You do not need to go any […]

A Pastor’s Accountability

Now, The post here comes from a conversation I had with a pastor friend of mine a few weeks back. From that conversation I jotted down some blog ideas, this is the 5th and last of those. If you want to catch up… the links to the posts are… King Jesus The Shepherd is King […]

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 […]