The Notebook

Louie is one of the most dynamic speakers around. Here is a great video that you must watch. I have several friends who are science teachers that are followers of Christ and almost get sick by what they have to teach. They need our prayers. Is creation vs. evolution one of the battles worth dying [&...

Today begins the second week of our Faith In Action Campaign at Bridge Church. To find out more about this campaign go to www.thebridge4u.net and click the big orange FIA logo. We are gearing up to May 18th when we cancel our worship gathering and go into the community and do service projects....

Believe it or not, it has been fourteen years since we have taken an official family vacation. That was in 1994! That year Julie, Sarah and I(Emily was too young) went to Alaska in September, then in December we all went to Disney World. Since then we usually head back to Tennessee and Alabama each ...

It is always busy when you come back from being away for a week and this week has been no different! playing catch up with email, we are in the middle of a Faith In Action campaign, meetings, and phone calls. Today is study day for Sunday. Truthfully, I love it! Being in ministry is […]...

After returning from Orlando to attend the Exponential Conference for the second year in a row, I am finally starting to catch my breath. As you may or may not know, I have had the opportunity to launch /help launch three churches over the past several years. The latest of those, Bridge Church is 15...

My friend Ed Stetzer invited me to an International Mission Board forum of 40 emerging leaders in the SBC to engage in conversation around social justice, missions and empowering the next generation of global leaders. It was good to see Ed and another one of my long distance friends at this forum, R...

Darrin Patrick Here are my notes from a break out session I was in with Darrin Patrick, pastor of Journey Church in St Louis. He spoke on Raising Up Good Leaders. Timothy the church planter and Paul as his coach. I Timothy 6:20 Self Leadership What is going on within you? You have to cultivate [&hel...

In the Main Session at Exponential 2008, Andy Stanley spoke on Apostolic Vision. Andy is by far one of the best communicators in the world by keeping his talks clear and focused. Here are my notes from Andy’s talk which by the way was excellent. Apostolic vision is a mental picture of what co...

Mark Batterson Lead Pastor National Community Church Washington D.C. 5 Greatest Challenges Every Leader Faces Emotional Managing all the emotions:         Fear, Discouragement and Jealousy         Your emotional health w...

Good evening. Today was the start of the Pre-Conference Intensive for the Exponential Conference in Orlando. The track I took was The Reproducing Church Experience taught by Jon Ferguson of Community Christian Church and Brian Zehr of NewThing Network. Jon shared with us in this Intensive how to rec...