Entries from April 2008

April 28, 2008

Church planting update

Had a awesome trip last week with all the Aletheia boyz.We left for Madision,Wisconsin in the wee hours of the morning on tuesday and got back in the wee hours of the morning on thursday. The University of Wisconsin is a awesome campus.Here is the positive: 41,000 students…29,000 undergrad…4,000 international students…awesome people…awesome campus on 900 [...]

April 18, 2008

Awesome Quote

“Every town has its places where heaven can show up and the town will welcome it, because heaven’s response is much better than the evil that is hurting those to whom we go…’Going’ implies that we go somewhere new, to someone not like us, to some culture or subculture where we might not feel comfortable [...]

April 18, 2008

How to run your life!

When it comes to life many of us want to be in control. We make decisions based upon money, benefits, time, influence, and many other things. We choose which schools we are going to attend by what kind of job we are going to get when we get out. We choose what kind of job [...]

April 11, 2008

Confessions of a Church Planter- 4

Many times in life we can get “bent out of shape” about things that don’t really matter and can find ourselves Majoring on the minors. Just for the record…This includes me. What helps me with this is that I have a few people in my life that can see my need for a swift Kick [...]

April 9, 2008

Confessions of a Church Planter-3

Many of the greatest lessons that I have learned lately have not been from success but from stupid mistakes that I have made. One of these is that sometimes loyalty to certain people in your life can blind you to the obvious. Sometimes we can get so close to someone that we can’t see the [...]

April 8, 2008

Confessions of a Church Planter-2

Many times as a person who is in the ministry vocationally, people can get the perception or catch the vibe that we have this special phone-line to God and that we always know what to do. I just want to confess to all today that there are a lot of times that I just don’t [...]

April 4, 2008

Confessions of a Church Planter-part 1

The longer I go through this process of Planting a collegiate church, the more I realize that it’s not cosmopolitan like some dudes think that it is. This is war! The evil one wants to destroy you and he will do it however he can. The whole church movement is about people. It’s about people [...]