God changed us! We are not the same! God used our trip to Bolivia form us. We thought we were going to help others to grow into His likeness, and we did, but He did much more than we ever could have imagined. We were …
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Believe Now
“Believe now.” ~ Bryan McKenzie My pastor said this in a sermon a while back. He was referring to coming to Christ for the first time, but I heard it differently. It stuck. It’s been rolling around in my head for months now. If I …
Read MorePlace of Grace – Meridian – for my children
I never finished this, but it was an idea for a poem or song or something to give to my children. It expresses the things I plan to share with my kids when I take them to visit Meridian State Park someday. I’ll tell them …
Read MoreThrone Together Story & Downloads
A request before my post: If Throne Together impacted you in some significant way, please post a comment below. I’d love to pass on some of your stories to the band. Now I’ll continue with my post. I was at a wedding a little while …
Read MoreTroop Carrier or Luxury Liner?
In his book Radical, David Platt writes: In the late 1940s, the United States government . . . construct[ed] an 80 million dollar troop carrier for the navy. The purpose was to design a ship that could speedily carry fifteen thousand troops during times of …
Read MoreChurch Staff Ideas
Church staff people are valuable. (I know, ’cause I was one at one time.) Therefore, I have always said that if I was ever in a place where I got to make decisions regarding church staff, there are some things I’d like to offer them. …
Read MoreFamily Update & Videos
Here are some fun things to tell you about: I got up to go to the bathroom the other day and when I returned, this is what I found. Isn’t she the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? Kesleigh loves Kleenex from Steve Corn on Vimeo. …
Read MoreComic Books and Church – Between Frames
Seth Godin had a great post about marketing based upon some ideas from a book about comic books by Scott McCloud. In comic books, the action takes place “between the frames” and the reader ends up telling the story in his imagination as much or …
Read MoreSimon Says
Whoa!! I came home from a rough day @ church last night and found the most amazing e-mail awaiting me. Simon was a “hard headed punk kid that had it all figured out.” Those are his words but I’d say they’re pretty accurate. I was …
Read MoreJob Search
Our church has struggled through this rough economy. Every full-time programming staff position is being made “part-time” in January. They have been very intentional about communicating that this is not a “performance related” decision. Here’s a letter drafted by the SPRC chairman describing the circumstance: …
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