Friends, Pastors and Scholars – a Question.

Friends, Pastors, and Scholars. I need your help. Currently I’m studying for a message for next spring from Mark 8:11-13. In this passage Jesus says “no sign will be given to this generation”. Now we know that every miracle He performed was a sign that He was the Messiah. Where He grew up, where He […]

What would it take?

Repentance is not something we really like to talk about unless it is aimed at someone else. Why? Because we really do not want to deal with the issues in our own soul. If we can point the finger at someone else’s wrong doing and demand repentance from them it makes us look better and […]

We’re like them…

They were human, just like you and me. They were bad, just like you and me. They had done things that God did not like, but instead of destroying them He sent a prophet with a message of doom… to give them another chance…. … just like He did for you and me. God loved […]

Quit Giving Him a Hard Time!

We need to quit giving Jonah a hard time in Chapter 3. Why? We miss the message of the chapter when we do that. Here is what we know…. God gave Him the message he was to speak – Jonah 3:2-3. There was no resistance or reluctance, its just not in the text. Instead it […]

Nothing Short of Amazing

The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time…. (Jonah 3:1) …. a second time. I am amazed the word of the Lord would come one time, but two? and with the same message? That is incredible. How many times has the word of the Lord come to you? How many times has […]

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 […]