The Notebook

This morning I am testing out a trial version of MacJournal, a journaling software program that allows you to do your journal electronically. If I want, I can post my journal entry to my blog. The most useful personal feature is I can index my entries and quickly find topics that I journaled about. ...

Yesterday I was interviewed by Mark Kelly. Mark is writing an article for OnMission magazine about churches planting churches and was given my name by Randy Chestnut, Executive Director of Cleveland Hope. As I was sharing with Mark, I made a couple of comments that I have had time to think about and...

As I type, a team from Thompson Baptist Church in Thompson, Mississippi are making their way up to NE Ohio to help Bridge Church at Perry carry out it’s mission to encounter, engage, and encourage people to experience Jesus. This team will be holding Day Camps in a park and in a church members...

Look at the date of this post: Friday July 20th at 9:00 am EST. Why? The Book is not out until midnight tonight so, I will make some predicitons for what it’s worth. Harry will die, but will be brought back to life ie… Bobby Ewing on Dallas. Ron, Hermoine, and Neville all live. Snape [&h...

Ed Stetzer until recently, served as the Director of Research and Missiology for the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. David Putnam is one of the pastors at Mountain Lake Church in Cumming, Georgia. Both of these men through God’s providence have been able to break t...

Baptisms are an awesome moment for all involved. As a pastor getting the opportunity to baptize a new believer is quite incredible. For the person being baptized it is a moment of courage, excitement, and if the water is cold – refreshing! This past Sunday Bridge Church had it’s second b...

Here it is in all of it’s beautiful glory – the Apple iPhone which goes on sale tomorrow. Since my conversion in 2005 (not spiritual) to an Apple PowerBook G4 away from the Microsoft monopoly, I have feverishly been an evangelist for Apple. I currently own a bulky Verizon XV6700 Smartpho...

Acts 17:1-6 ESV Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there l, a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the...

Definition of community from Wikipedia – A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the ident...

I started a new teaching series this past Sunday titled Changeology. Yes, I made up a word – pastors are good at that. We mumble and say it came from the Greek word hmmphgubmout and people believe us. Any way the first sermon was on change yor life and here is the gist of my […]...