27 Mar Looking for an Easter Spotify Playlist? I’ve got you covered!
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24 Aug Finding a Mentor: 5 Things You Can’t Afford Not To Do
Over the past few weeks, I've had several conversations with friends who are considering looking for a mentor to help them grow their leadership. This post is a few thoughts that I usually share with people who are beginning that process. For what it's worth,...
18 Aug 7 Podcasts That Will Make You a Smarter, Better Leader
Some of the best free resources out there for growing and learning are podcasts. Over the past few years, as podcasts have grown in popularity, literally thousands of new podcasts have flooded the web. It can be exhausting sifting through them to find the really...
02 Aug Jesus May Not Calm Your Storm
What do you do when it starts raining and then it never stops? Somebody asked me that question yesterday. I was sitting across the table as this friend poured out the details of some really difficult things that are going on in his family right now. Really difficult things that I honestly can't understand or relate to because I've never been there myself. So for that reason, I wasn't sure how to answer his question. What do you do when things get dark and there's no light at the end of the tunnel? Actually, let me ask the question this way, because this gets right at the heart of things: What do you do when you pray, beg, cry out for Jesus to step in and calm a storm in your life, and then you wait and wait and wait for the peace to come and it just.....doesn't?
12 May Removing the Chaos
What if I told you that God doesn't want your life to be chaos? In the first week of our series studying through the book of Titus, we explored the idea that because God loves us, He has something better in mind for us than...
18 Jul Not Done Yet
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Each of us experiences moments where we feel like God has forgotten about it, or failed to show up in a time of need or desperation. When life doesn't go the way we planned, our gut reaction is to blame God for not coming through....
18 Jul Follow and Obey
God created each of us for a unique purpose and wired us up to do something great that only we can do. By following and obeying His leading we get to experience the freedom and fulfillment of living with purpose. But that can be scary, because...
17 Jun Jesus For All People
The thing I love most about being a part of the team at First Christian Church is the fact that we are a place for all people, regardless of background or baggage or brokenness, to find a place to belong, to rest, to heal, to grow, to find community, and to ultimately bump into Jesus and allow Him to work in their lives. Over the past few years, we've seen God do some incredible things because of that vision. But the truth is, we believe the best is yet to come. We believe God has even greater things in store down the road. Through the month of June we've taught about our mission, vision and values, and how they are going to play out in what we do over the next few years as we chase after the call Jesus has given us to reach out with unconditional love to all people. If you've ever wondered how a church can become that kind of place, here is what it looks like for us (video after the jump):
22 Jan God of This City
I'm sitting in Starbucks looking out the window. This is a typical Friday for me. Today, I'm trying to write a sermon for an event I've been asked to speak at in West Virginia in a couple weeks but I'm having trouble focusing. I often find a place to work away from my office where I can sip some coffee. And today, in less than an hour, I've seen no less than four cars drive by with "Jesus For All People" window decals. One person wearing a "Jesus For All People" t-shirt came in to order a non-fat latte. I was talking to two people I know who are part of the community of First Christian Church, where our vision, motto, and heartbeat is "Jesus For All People", and as we were talking, two more people who attend FCC that I've never met stopped to tell us how glad they are that God brought them to FCC. I'm sitting at the same table in Starbucks where I sat two-and-a-half years ago in an interview for a job that everything within me (and a few close friends) told me I shouldn't take. It meant taking a pay cut to move to a city I didn't know, to become the leader of a struggling ministry within a church that many on the inside and outside thought was dying, in a city that has been struggling economically for well over a decade.
10 Dec The Most Joyful Christmas Ever
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Christmas is complicated. It's busy. And especially if you've had an unexpected experience this past year that brought pain in your life, it can be really difficult to understand how it's even possible to experience joy this time of year. This past Sunday, we kicked off...