Spiritual Warfare Resources

I don’t think I have ever experienced a longer season of intense spiritual warfare than I have over the past six months.  To say I feel like I have had a target on my life would be an understatement.  While that may sound like I want pity, I must say I have been the beneficiary of the warfare.  I have been forced out of apathy and complacency to an alertness and assertiveness in my...

Which Bible and Which translation???

Bibles are a dime a dozen in America.  You can get your Bible in whatever theme, color, make and size you want today.  What happen to the simple free Gideon KJV Bible (keep up the good work Gideons, I have used your Bibles many times)?  As a pastor I am a connoisseur of Bibles as much as a techy loves his gadgets and a cook loves William-Sanoma store.  I have been in the teaching ministry...

Why go to Church???

Who needs it?  Why waste our time with it?  What is the value of it?  Why Church?   Fewer and fewer people are “going to church” these days.  What are we saying about church with our feet ? In one of the most difficult studies to swallow, only17.7% of Americans go to church on a regular basis, according to Olson1.  People are leaving the church very early in life and not...

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...

Is God Green? Are You Green?

To ask if a person is “green” in this highly enviromentally conscious world of today, is like asking are you Democratic or Republican. The views on global warming are about as divided as the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s (a little southern rivalry). Going “green,” by far, is the politically correct thing to do. Employees are getting challenged daily by their...