I met Ethan Pope back in 1996 when JJ and I began attending Temple Baptist Church in Hattiesburg. Ethan has a heart for God, a heart for people, and a heart for managing money the way God instructs us to in the scriptures. By reading a few of his books, and spending time with him [...]
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Last week, one of the finest men I know, gave a presentation during Dallas Theological Seminary’s chapel service. Please take 20 minutes and listen to Ethan Pope’s message on America’s financial demise. I believe whole heartedly in what Ethan is saying here. I don’t hope or want this, but it seems to me that it [...]
Polls open on the www.seniorbowl.com website at 10:00am Friday and close at Midnight Sunday. I couldn’t get the video to embed, but you can visit it here. This quartet from the Hattiesburg area is one of the three finalists trying out to sing the National Anthem before the Senior Bowl to be played in Mobil, [...]
Story Time
Posted: December 15, 2008 in Arc, Books, Culture, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Quotes, The WordStories have always been an important part of my life. Stories, good stories, have a way of capturing and keeping my attention like nothing else. If you think about it, most of our everyday conversations are simply us telling stories to each other. Growing up my parents always told me stories, mostly funny and some [...]
Well I’m officially in the Christmas Spirit and here is why: Finally got our tree up. We had to replace all of the lights this year so we went with color LED lights. Our tree could be described now as “retro” or “blingish”. (Notice Santa’s little helper on the stool.) Started seeing frost on the [...]
A friend of mine sent me this video a few weeks ago and I knew I had to share it. Basically it’s a parable that demonstrates how goofy things would be if the church took over Starbucks. If you have a first impressions team at your church that is responsible for welcoming people (Greeters, ushers, [...]
Thankfulness: From Sentiment to Reality
Posted: November 26, 2008 in Culture, Family, Friends & Family, TheologyProclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds. Psalms 26:7 (ESV) What many of us consider as gratitude in our hearts is only sentiment. Gratitude must be verbalized for it to become Thankfulness. Telling God and others how grateful we are to them moves our gratitude from a potential into the domain of reality. [...]
Church + Gospel + Culture=The Great Commission
Posted: November 3, 2008 in Books, Church, Culture, Ministry & LeadershipThis diagram was brought to my attention as I read through Mark Driscoll’s book Radical Reformission. The following designations help us understand how the church, culture, and the gospel message should relate to each other. Ideally each segment should have a part in the mission of our churches if we are going to be effective [...]
Just a reminder that much of what you see today will not be real. Someone is fighting for your attention today; the question is to whom will you give it? Ladies, stop competing with the world. In reality you are competing with someone/something that doesn’t even exist. Set your minds on things that are above, [...]
While reading Mark Batterson’s book, Wild Goose Chase, I came across a sentence that brought Milli Vanilli to mind. In chapter three of the book Batterson talks about how the routine things of life can keep us from worshiping God. ON page 59 it reads, God doesn’t want to be lip-synced. He wants to [...]
