Well since I have decided to go a new direction and pursue a more traditional church setting, I now have the very difficult task of searching for a church home (a group of believers to live life with larger than the current folks who are the greatest). The biggest problem is I have specific convictions that are important to me. These convictions would prevent me...

2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” 4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 May the...

Our little group will begin to study and apply the book of Romans beginning Sunday which I am very excited about. One thing that I was ingrained in me was Bible Study Methods a good acronym to use in bible study methods is SWAP. This stands for Subject, Writer, Audience and Purpose.  Two big helps with getting the audience was Frank Viola’s “The Untold...

I wrote a previous post called “whose sheep are they”. I decided to stay with the name for this post.  This post was actually in the think tank; however a dear blogging buddy over at New Leaven posted this about small groups. This actually rekindle my thoughts and motivated this post. Lets be clear about something. Leaders, have no right to tell...

  This post will contain some spoilers, so if you are really interested in seeing the movie, see it first then come back and read this post, I don’t have much readership so it won’t matter much anyway Up In Air is about a guy who works for a firm who lays-off people for companies who are scared to do it. It is a heart wrenching movie. I mean really...

I want to approach this post from an apologetic perspective. There is a common misconception held about those who don’t agree with the popular church culture. That misconception is that because some reject the organization commonly known as the “church” that somehow those same individuals don’t love or care for the “church”. I...