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Why do people go back to the world?  Why do people who once were passionate about Jesus and His kingdom settle for a lukewarm or even dead church?  Why do people who once hated sin and the world all of a sudden become fascinated with it?  Why is that people who once would pray for hours now spend hours watching television or wasting time playing video games instead? The answers vary but I believe that one answer is that people get ...

I was reading The Forgotten Spurgeon the other day and found this quote a tremendous encouragement. It was reportedly spoken by Spurgeon to his friend J.W. Harrald prior to his death: Ah! the bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by their ...

Tweet Two years ago, after being inspired by a friend’s post, I wrote a post called “I used to believe… Now I believe…” In this post, I laid out some of the ways that I my beliefs about the church had changed over the last few years. Feel free to present how your views have changed (or not changed) in the comments. —————————————&...

Tweet As I mentioned in the first post in this series, I want to highlight some of the comments that have been left on my blog posts during the past week. Hopefully, this will give more visibility to some of the reasons that I love blogging – dialog and interaction. Aussie John asked a good question in a comment on my post “Replay: He washed their stinkin’ feet“: Those who claim to be called to function as elde...

Sunday morning at Grace Church  Pastor Rick will cast vision for the next 5 years. Here’s a sneak peek at what happened this past year. Thanks to all the volunteers who partnered with the Holy Spirit to make this happen. ...

Tweet This Sunday, we start studying the Book of Acts together as the church. I’m sure that there will be alot of good questions and answers and discussion when we dig into Acts 1 in a few days. But, as I’ve been thinking about Acts 1, a question keeps popping into my mind: How important is the time between Jesus’ ascension and the day of Pentecost for the church today? In the Book of Acts, Jesus ascends into heaven i...

With the death of David Wilkerson, another prophet is gone.  By prophet, I don't mean the term in the charismatic sense of foreseeing and prophesying future events but I mean the quality of the man or the woman of God who called a generation to repentance.  Like Isaiah.  Like Elisha.  Like John the Baptist.  We need prophets who will stand for holiness, declare God's coming judgment, and preach the hard truths of the Word...

Okay, maybe not, but I am super excited about several things going on this weekend at Cross Point and I would appreciate you joining me in prayer. 1. Starting a new series. “Anything But Ordinary” This is the first time I’ve ever preached through the Beatitudes and I’m so excited. Here’s the promo… 2. We’re launching our Internet Campus. Starting this Sunday you can join us anywhere around the world for ...

Tweet There are many different kinds of families, and none of them are perfect. But, it seems that almost everyone knows how families should treat one another. When we read Scripture about the church, we find that we should also live as family with one another – not that dysfunctional kind of family, but a loving, caring, serving kind of family. Eric at “A Pilgrim’s Progress” recently talked about this in his po...

It sounds like a plan hatched in a college dorm room: a beer fast for 40+ days. However, for J. Wilson, this was not a plan for collegiate binging but rather Christian living. Wilson emulated a tradition practiced by ancient monks. He ate a meal on Ash Wednesday for the last time until Easter Sunday. His only ‘food’ was beer. That’s right. Nothing but beer for 40+ days. What did he drink? Apparently his favorite was Illuminat...