My man Rod Pearcy over at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale has let us know the lineup for the Calvary Chapel Southeast Pastor’s Conference.  He’s going to be giving highlights throughout the conference.  It’s wierd to see my name in the midst of guys that I admire so much.  Excited?  Yes.  Nervous?  What do you think?   

I’ve been attending the Calvary Chapel Southeast Pastor’s Conference for the last 9 years. When I was in Bible College, my dream was to someday be one of the speakers. Well…someday is happening this upcoming Wednesday morning! I got asked to be one of the keynote speakers at this annual event. There’s about 1,200 Senior Pastors and church leaders registered to attend. I’m totally excited and humbled by the opportunity. My topic you ask: “Postmodernism and the Emerging Church”. I’m just glad I wasn’t ask to teach anything hard! Just kidding. But if you remember, please pray for me.

Pastors, you know more than you anyone the importance of sharing vision. Yet as I look around church world, I don’t see a lot of Pastors sharing the vision God has given them very well.  Nehemiah succeeded because he was able to mobilize the people to be part of God’s vision.  We are having our annual "Vision Night" tomorrow and I’ve been thinking about vision a lot overthe last 2 weeks.  While I’m always trying to deposit some vision into every message, there are important moments when we get the opportunity to talk in these terms the entire evening.  In … Read More

My good friend Pedro Garcia, who s doing a great job Pastoring the Calvary Chapel in Kendall played hookie and visited Calvary Fellowship this weekend.  It was great to see him and his family and spend  time with them.  He offered some very kind words about his experience at our service.  You can read them here on his blog. 

This week gets the “Weirdest week ever” award! I started a series on Sunday called “Origins” talking about who we are as a church, where the church has been and where we are going. The message has stirred more talk, conversation, meetings, e-mails, and rumblings than any other message we’ve ever done in 5 years! What was the subject matter? End Times? No. Divorce? No. Sex? No. “Once saved, always saved”? No. Here’s what it was: Love. That’s it. Loving one another… We’re getting tons of feedback. Mostly positive, some concerns. Check it out if you’re interested. In fact, subscribe … Read More

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Wow! Today was amazing! The place was slammin’! The music was great. The video we used was insanely funny. But we talked about the church. We talked about the important of the church being original (That is, we are going to be different than any other church because of who we are, where we are, and what period in history we’re in) and then we talked about how we need to be linked to our origins. The first of which was love. Love is supposed to be our calling card as Christians. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, … Read More