Archive for June, 2009

• The faith of a child…

  Monday, June 29th, 2009

  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, [...]

• SBC…Good, but not Good enough

  Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

  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 [...]

• The SEX talk

  Saturday, June 20th, 2009

  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 [...]