Spontaneous Baptism

May 31, 2010

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A week ago Lisa and I took a quick trip out to Atlanta to nail down a rental house. While we were in town we had the opportunity to attend a worship service at North Metro and were blown away by how the Lord moved. The preceding week the Staff had wrestled through the idea…

What Jesus had to say to Church Leaders and why it should Freak us out…Part-2

May 6, 2010

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Paul Alexander

in Leadership, Spiritual Formation

Here are a few humbling things that Jesus had to say to the synagogue leaders of the day. Not to women at wells, people possessed by demons, men born blind or whose bodies were with crippled with leprosy or even women caught in the very act of adultery, but to the religious leaders. As church…

the quality vs quantity time myth

May 3, 2010

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Paul Alexander

in Family, Spiritual Formation

In his book Revolutionary Parenting, George Barna writes the following: “Millions of parents have accepted the idea that they have to make a choice. They must either give up careers and self-fulfillment and spend a lot of time with their children, or spend limited but deeply enriching time with them while maintaining the same level…

Kate McRae

Apr 27, 2010

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Paul Alexander

in Family, Spiritual Formation

On Monday, June 29, 2009 I received a phone call from Aaron McRae, a friend of mine that I work with at Cornerstone Chandler. His daughter Kate, who was 5 years old at the time, had just been admitted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and been diagnosed with brain cancer. It’s so bizarre to think that…

What we can learn from crisis

Apr 26, 2010

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Paul Alexander

in Family, Leadership, Spiritual Formation

This past weekend I was sitting in a line of traffic waiting for a train to pass, innocently counting the cars on the train when WHAM!!! Once I gathered my wits about me I realized that I had just been hit. I pulled off to the side of the road and the gentleman in the…

Category: Spiritual Formation