…laboring for the gospel as it transforms me, my city, and my world for all of eternity…
It’s an amazing thing to start a church. It really is. There’s tremendous uncertainty, constant change, exciting developments, new friendships, and a never changing God.
I can’t tell you what the last few weeks have been like for me. There have been many moments of unspeakable joy. There have been moments that [...]
This book was recommended (and given for free) to me by a pastoral friend here in the Jefferson City area and he is much much smarter than I. I had heard about it previously and I know CJ Mahaney is a huge fan of Paul David Tripp. So I graciously accepted the gift and with [...]
Last night I had the opportunity to preview Fireproof, the latest release from Sherwood Pictures who also brought you Facing The Giants. This movie has received fairly positive reviews and not the least of which was from Tim Challies who reviewed it here.
The story is about Caleb (a firefighter) and Catherine (a PR [...]
Read about what happened at the second vision meeting for Eternity over at our website.
A good friend of mine recently gave me for free (he’s that good of a friend) a copy of Paul David Tripp’s great book “Instruments In The Redeemer’s Hands”. He said to me when he gave it to me that he expected to see it on the blog, so I’m obliging him. But [...]
As I sit in the Yanis Coffee Zone preparing for the fall with the Eternity core group, I read a paragraph that I wanted to share today. Ask yourself these questions and really chew on the reality in your life:
Have we heard the Gospel? Have we believed it with our lives or are [...]
But there is some great stuff here to chew on.
Some of the more provoking quotes here for your pondering:
The church is especially notorious for doing this. We have kid’s ministries and youth ministries and young adults and older adults — all separated from each other because of age, thereby negating any positive and necessary influence [...]
If you haven’t read much of Tim Challies’ blog, it’s worth the few minutes a day it takes to drop by his site. Here’s an excerpt from his post today titled “Our Highest Aim”:
A few years ago I spoke to a pastor of a small church that had been formed largely on the basis [...]
Yesterday we went and listened to a good friend preach and I have to tell you it was extremely refreshing for me. The day was very challenging but the sermon was extremely refreshing. And as I thought about why this friend and I have connected even though we’ve only known each other for [...]
I was having a conversation yesterday with a pastor who I’ve become very good friends with and we were talking about Eternity. And he said something very strange in the middle of our conversation. He said: “Marc, are you going to ask them to go and get new friends?”
To tell you the [...]