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I love the Church of Jesus Christ!  I do.  It is easy to be critical of many aspects of the Church but we must always keep in mind that the Church, the true Church of God, is loved by God (Ephesians 5:25-27).  Jesus died for His Church.  Notice Paul's words in Ephesians 5:25 that Jesus gave Himself for her.  If Jesus so loved the Church, so should His disciples.I have met people who dislike the Church.  In fact, an a...

Wednesday night we hosted our first ever Worship Night at Cross Point. What an amazing night! I was so proud of our entire creative team for gathering our church for one of the most important things we could be doing as a body, praising our amazing God. I loved the purpose of this event as described by Matt Warren, our music/technical director, on his blog. He wrote, Sunday mornings shouldn’t be spiritual Exxon stations. If you...

It is not uncommon to see church signs in my city offering reasons why I should visit their church.  Some of them put the sermon title on the marquee.  Others will put out events such as a concert or a yard sale.  Still others simply put the times that the church meets.  In many ways, the Church has become like a bar with its battles against other churches trying to steal away members by offering many, many, many activities an...

I am so excited about this event coming up tomorrow night at Cross Point.  Breachbent writers night!  Our own Natalie Robertson and Ryan Bult have teamed up with two of my favorite people in the world, Jeff and Vicki Rogers of Go Ministries, for an amazing evening to benefit their tireless restoration efforts in Haiti. I’ve been friends with Jeff and Vicki since college and have introduced them to you HERE. We’ve...

“You need to take Your Secret Name into the women’s prison Kary,” said Carol Kuck, a woman in my church (Grace Church) who works with Kairos.  “You need to come do a retreat. There are so many women who are enslaved to the Names they’ve been given and God wants to set them free. “Actually Carol, I think you need to do it. You’re the one who has years of relationship with these ladies. You’re th...

We’ve all heard about supporting orphans in Africa…and we should. But something caught my eye recently-a movement that helps us train Africans to minister to other Africans. Cutting through it all – this movement is pure leadership development. I like this type of forward, visionary thinking and so I sat down with Dave Martin to find out more about The Timothy Project. 1.  What is the Big Idea behind The Timothy Project? Rapi...

I can’t tell you how excited I am that I just turned in my manuscript for “The Space Between” right before we left for vacation. All 65,743 words of it were sent in Friday! I wanted to take moment to say thank you to all of you faithful blog readers and commenters. Over the past 8 months I’ve floated a lot of different ideas from this book through this blog. Before many things go in a book for me they ge...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkfOEzGaS74 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Luke 4:18-19 ...

While I’m on vacation this week and not blogging as much I thought I would introduce you to a few of my favorite fellow Cross Point staff blogs. It’s a real honor to get to serve with these guys. If you don’t already, make sure you check out… Matt Warren- There are very few blogs out there by guys who understand the technical and musical aspects of the church like Matt does. He’s our Cross Point musi...

No, I will never stop using cheap-shot titles when it relates to pornography. Why? Because my stats show me that you click on them. And this is a message that needs to be heard. So, I’m looking for a porn gig. Kind of. National Porn Sunday is February 6, 2011. And I am available to speak on that Sunday. If your church would like me to address the issues of pornography from the stage that Sunday, I would be honored to sha...