I have had a lot of questions about how the Yard Sale/Antique Road Show went from my previous post… The event was great and we raised $4,445.00 in an eight hour day. The Antique Road Show was a big hit and the videos will be uploaded and posted to this blog just after our trip. [...]
Archive for July, 2008
The Long Shots!
Posted in International Missions, Pillar Church on July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Door2door
Posted in Church Planting, Family on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Out with my boys now doing some old school door to door. Man, church planting is fun.
More on the Prosperity Gospel
Posted in Rants and Raves on July 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Watch Joel Osteen’s 60 Minutes Interview
I only have a few things to say about this:
I think Joel is Authentic – I think he really believes that what he is doing is right.
I think he has no confidence in the power of the Gospel to change lives.
I think Christians should pray that God would show [...]
Blogging Just Got Easier
Posted in Things I Like on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WordPress has a new widget on itunes making it easy to blog from the iPhone. This is great news because I have tried a dozen times to blog from my phone without success. So… This is my first mobile post. I am adding a few more pics from our trip below.
Ruthe is with her 13 [...]
A Trip Through The Motherland
Posted in Family on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We left Monday and headed through to Tennessee to see some family . We wanted to make the trip before our big project in Indonesia that starts next Monday. We visited some of our very southern relatives and had an great time. Because we are “city folk” our kids have missed out on the opportunity [...]
Sunday @ Pillar
Posted in Pillar Church on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few things that made this Sunday REALLY great! #1) We had the highest attendance of the summer and a good number of visitors. #2) These three guys (above) did a great job leading worship. I could honestly not have dreamed of a better group of people to work with in service planning and worship [...]
Roadshow? the real Roadshow?
Posted in International Missions on July 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For those of you who read from remote and far away places- please forgive me for this post. There are a few things that I want to emphasis to the “Locals” who are involved in our ministry:
As you know Jen and I are leading a team of 12 to Indonesia in two weeks. We have [...]
Speaking of Music
Posted in Songs & Songwriting on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well since todays post was about songwriting I wanted to take the opportunity to brag on our worship leaders Amanda Long & Keilan Creech. These guys are super talented and are such a big part of our experience with Jesus each Sunday Morning. A few months back they headed to the recording studio to put [...]
Dirty Clint Music
Posted in Songs & Songwriting on July 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am an amateur songwriter and have been for most of my life. I started playing music when I was about ten and wrote my first song before I was twelve. I don’t claim to be a great songwriter but I absolutely love writing songs. A few months ago I decided I wanted to get [...]
The Non-Gospel
Posted in preaching on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dr. Piper makes some pointed comments about the prosperity gospel. From our own churches this movement is wreaking havoc on Christendom and leading millions worldwide away from the cross.