ENDURE Sound Teaching & Suffering
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn […]
How? & FAITH
When the question of “How?” meets the reality of FAITH IN CHRIST a whole new path begins… When my wife and I spend time in God’s presence our attitude changes. […]
Redeem & Make Useful
This morning as I read the end of Ephesians and the start of Philippians, I sat and prayed and had a vision I believe was from the Lord. It was […]
Went Away Sad?! Away from JESUS…
You’ve likely heard or read the story. The rich young ruler who Jesus encounters who kept all the commands and did well except to sell all and follow Jesus. I’m […]
Weak & Powerful
Yesterday’s gathering was the culmination of a week of missionary activity for our little missionary community. We saw God work through us to touch some lives in some really special […]
Paul’s Emphasis Vs. Our Western Mindset
As our little Jesus community prays and grows, prays and grows, seeks the Lord’s heart and grows, we have been studying 1 & 2 Corinthians and have been impacted by […]
Friends Who Live in California
Church Planting & Psalm 127
“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain […]
Friends Who Live in California
Friendship
Rosa is a friend who I’ve had the pleasure of spending some time with in the last week especially. She has severe dementia and has the exciting habit of wandering […]
We Are Jesus Communities
Any who gather in the name of Jesus Christ and follow His manner of ministry can experience His eternal joy and be knit together in God’s love. We had such […]
#Welcome & JMC Update
My good friends, Dave and Jennifer Collie, are leading a conference this weekend that Carrie and I get to help out with. Lord-willing we will be able to see this […]
Steady Eddy & Our Faithful Jesus
Each of us have an opportunity to serve as part of the broader family of Jesus followers. As we enter into the work of God’s Holy Spirit and encounter people […]
Church Plant LAUNCHED!
Totally humbled to have had about fifteen Jesus followers in our home yesterday for our first Sunday worship gathering as Jesus Missionary Communities’ first house church plant. We are prayerfully […]
Being a Jesus-Following Neighbor
Luke 10 contains the story Jesus uses to illustrate how a neighbor should conduct him or herself toward his or her neighbors. What stood out to me is that Jesus […]
Play NO MORE, Boys! It’s War Time
The death of an “American icon” who created Playboy makes me think of the cancer porn has been across the world. Really though it’s our sin that creates and permits […]
Jesus Encounters
Yesterday evening marked our first official gathering where I sensed from the Lord with boldness that our gathering of a few followers of Jesus is a local Jesus community. It […]
JMC Launch & The CROSS of CHRIST
This last Thursday night’s gathering truly melted my heart in God’s presence. This next week holds promise of being even more heart-transforming for us as a small community of believers. […]
