May 2012 Newsletter – “Scott Thoughts”
“Twelve in 2012: Trends in Healthy Churches” by Thom Rainer Last month I shared with you the first half of a good article by Thom Rainer, who does extensive research on the American church. He’s one of the authors of Simple Church, a book that helps shape our thinking about our ministry structure (available to [...]
April 2012 Newsletter – “Scott’s Thoughts”
“Twelve in 2012: Trends in Healthy Churches” by Thom Rainer I wanted to share with you the first half of a good article by Thom Rainer, who does extensive research on the American church. (The other half is coming next month.) He’s one of the authors of “Simple Church,” a book that helps shape our [...]
Men Needed… to lead in living the missionary life!
A couple things I came across today that are hitting home right where I’ve been thinking and praying a lot lately. American churches have allowed people to stop short at contentment with a pathetic dream of self-actualization and security that has little to do with the gospel and that, in the end, doesn’t satisfy… creating [...]
“Motive 6″ Sermon Series
When it comes to living the Christian life, motive is everything. It affects all areas of our lives, getting down to the crux of why we do what we do. Just ask anyone who has been married for any length of time… It doesn’t take long after the honeymoon to realize that, in a world [...]
Are You Growing? Sermon Series
Friends, being a Christian means becoming more and more the people God created us to be… and that means increasingly reflecting the nature and character of God! But that is easier said than done, amen?! So, as an appropriate launch for our Fall season and the implementation of Growth Groups, we’re providing you with 10 ways [...]
“The Prodigal God” Sermon Series
For the month of June & the first week of July, we’ll spend 5 weeks in a sermon series focusing on Luke 15 called “The Prodigal God”. It is based on the book by the same name by Timothy Keller, which states at the beginning, “This short book is meant to lay out the essentials [...]
“Theosaurus” Sermon Series (kinda)
We’ve got a cool new sporadic series called “Theosaurus”. You know what a Thesaurus is, right?! “Wait, do you mean like an ‘onomasticon’?” Umm, yes, actually… we do. “That’s what I thought.” Yeah… right. Well, this is exactly like that but totally different. The goal of this Theosaurus series is to define God words so [...]
“Don’t Go Solo” Sermon Series
In our busy and fractured modern world, where the popular cultural gods of individual freedom and economic security have taken on religious intensity and proportions, living as a productive and caring Christian community, where fellowship and togetherness are important values, becomes an increasingly difficult and almost foreign ideal. I mean, c’mon, who has time to [...]
Signs I’ve Given Up Being Cool
Okay, so this doesn’t have much redeeming value and certainly doesn’t have… well… anything to do with church or following Jesus, but I thought I’d share with you something with which many of you can probably identify. A few mornings ago, as I was pulling out of the driveway with the kids in the back [...]
BEYOND Sermon Series
We’re kicking off 2010 with a sermon series called BEYOND that is the theme for this year’s North American Christian Convention, a yearly gathering of independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ from around the world. It’s a great opportunity to learn about what God is doing among our churches. We’ll be joining with two churches in Johnson [...]
