Tag: teaching
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new in 2012
This past weekend I had the opportunity to preach the last message at Sun Valley Community Church in 2011 and the first of 2012. It was a great weekend and God used this message to speak to a bunch of people. The feedback was incredible! Hope He uses it to encourage you. Enjoy!
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What are you hiding from?
It’s one thing when you’re stuck in the airport, in the wrong checkout line, or traffic; but it’s a completely other thing when your kids start making decisions that don’t reflect the values of your family and those decisions are leading them on a path towards an impending trainwreck. When that moment comes and you…
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fighting the sin of becoming a boring church part-2
Broken Window Theory is the idea that your environment tells you to act. That is to say, if you live in a community with run down dilapidated buildings, with broken windows, graffiti, and trash on the streets it affects your ideas, feelings, and ultimately your behavior. In the 1980’s New York City was at the…
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Unconfined: An interview with Chris Coleman
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Christopher Coleman, a friend of mine who was pronounced dead at birth and who spent the first 15 minutes in this world not breathing. God had other plans for him however, and while he struggles with cerebral palsy, Chris serves in full time ministry and is…
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8 Core competencies of Family Ministries
What does a comprehensive and holistic approach to developing students from birth through late adolescence and the families that influence these students mean to the infrastructure and ministry of the Next Generation Team?