The faith of a child…

Grace Point just concluded an amazing week of Vacation Bible School (VBS) on steroids, called Adventure Point Day Camp.  VBS is one of those tools that when done well it has worked to help in a childs spiritual formation for many generations.  Two-thirds of U.S. churches host VBS with 38 million children partciplating every year((Leadership Journal, Summer 2005, 11)).   Grace Point’s...

SBC…Good, but not Good enough

I’ve read the list of the Great Commission Resurgence Task force and I think it is good start but doesn’t go far enough into the emerging SBC churches (notice I didn’t say Emergent church, so please don’t throw stones at me). If deep change is going to happen, we have got to move beyond the established guard. We’ll always get what we’ve always got if we always...

The SEX talk

I am perplexed these days as I raise teenagers, observe our sexually charged culture, pastor a gathering of Christ followers and explorers, at the same time seek to maintain my own sexual integrity.   The views on sexuality and values placed on such issues as monogomy, celebacy, virginity are all over the map.  If you hold to more traditional values of sexuality, the world considers you as...

Travis Williams Rocks!!!

Way to go Travis!  You took my vision for a more appealing look, more interactive, content rich web-blog and knocked a home run.  In the matter of  a couple of meetings and looking at a  few examples, you took my muddled thoughts and crafted into a functional blog. I would encourage anybody who is interested in a webblog to look at Travis’ and contact him. He is great and great to...

Thank You Ralph Winters

To be a blog about advancing the life, mission and kingdom of God beyond borders and not stop and honor the legacy of one of the 20th centuries greatest missional minds would be wrong. Though I never met Ralph Winters face to face, I have met him in the printed text. I have been to the Center for World Missions in Pasadena, CA, I have purchased many of his resources for Grace Point Beyond Borders...