We live in interesting times. The more I read, the more I hear of people calling other people heretics. So let’s see if we can get this straight for all of us keeping score at home… Mark Driscoll outs the Emergent guys… John McArthur outs Driscoll… The non-Calvinists out McArthur… The Calvinists out the Arminians… The pre-wrath guys out the ‘Left Behind’ Crowd… The Left Behind crowd out the Amillennials… The cessationists out the Charismaniacs… And the Charismaniacs out every imaginable demon… So I’m calling it right now… everyone’s a heretic… except me and you (and I’m not so sure … Read More

My day started pretty early as I drove up to Merritt Island to be with a group of Calvary Chapel Pastors. I hadn’t been up there in a while, but made a point to be part of today’s meeting and spend some time with guys in my tribe. It was great seeing some guys I hadn’t seen in a long time. Of course, the highlight was showing off pictures of Mia 🙂

I’m not kidding, it smells like a cigar in this office! Mark has put this spray contraption that sprays a fragrance every 9 minutes and it smells exactly like a cigar. I don’t think it’s supposed to smell like one, but it does. He says it smells like something else, but it smells a bar in here. All we’re missing is peanuts on the floor 🙂

Sermons Motivate, but Systems Dictate I didn’t want that statement to be true, but it is. It’s why a person watches a testimony about someone who lost weight on a diet and decides to lose weight too, but 3 weeks later is slamming down a box of Twinkies. It’s why teenagers become who they used to be a month after youth camp. It’s why couples say they are going to change but go back to old behavior patterns. It’s not the intention they have. It’s the system they are living in. I didn’t learn until this year the power of … Read More

This weekend is our 7-year anniversary, and I’ve been thinking about the things that God has shown me this year. Here’s the first one: Talent cannot compensate for a lack of integrity The story of Samson has been rockin’ my world as of late. This was a guy that has extraordinary talents and strengths (literally!). But he lacked integrity. He started with small compromises that eventually led to him losing his strength and trusted position as Israel’s judge. This year we have seen Christian leaders fall in the most heinous of ways. Thinking “That will never happen to me” is … Read More

I got a call on Wednesday from a reporter from the Miami Herald who was doing a story on how churches are using the internet to share the Gospel. We had a good conversation. What struck me after I got off the phone with him was how important a website is for a church, especially a portable one. When you don’t have a physical brick and mortar presence in the community, you’d better have one on the web. It’s a representation of who you are. We designed a website that tried to communicate our personality as well as have functionality. … Read More

Here’s the bumper that we used for our Supernatural (Gospel of Mark) series

Here is the Teaser we used for our Small Groups Promo…