Summer Spectacular Recruitment Video 2016 Extended Cut

Lessons an established church can learn from a church plant.

There was a huge push when I was in seminary for those of us who were graduating to set out and plant a church in an area that needed something modern and relevant to reach a lost and dying world. Many of my friends answered the call and went for it. Some were successful while […]

Rain (Hebrews 6)

I have grass this year in my yard. This is an accomplishment but its not mine alone. My good friend Josh Hill (who is now a pastor at The Summit church in Raleigh. NC) has plugged and planted grass seed in the fall of each of the last 3 years. The results have been very […]

Just Like Everyone Else

Hi My name is Phillip Nothing extra ordinary Just Phillip Made like everyone else was made in this world in my mother’s womb Crafted by the hand of God then born into an imperfect world filled with imperfect people just like me which defined the need without defining it which set me in a bad […]

Difficult Times

We live in some difficult and confusing times. It is a cultural era that just when you think it couldn’t get worse or more confusing (as to how people are thinking) it does. Never before – even during the marriage issue of our recent history – have I seen so many upset people “yelling out” […]

What is absent in a good man?

What is absent in a good man? We can all probably list things pretty quickly that make up a good man and could probably make a list of things we would never expect a good man to do but what is absent in a good man? Absent with no future of becoming present. What would […]