Urban Reformation

We spent a weekend with Missouri Baptist Convention, church planters assessment this week.  We have strived to make one of the marks of LFF to kill pride and cultivate humility.  We went this weekend with some skepticism, I believe everyone has had their own perspective of “Baptist” or “SBC” in their life.  Some people associate [...]

Spanking has long fallen by the wayside in public schools, and there are certainly skeptics in the public eye who have come up with every “other” form of discipline besides spanking.  I am not sure if it’s based in guilt, or perhaps a child had a “harsh” experience from their own childhood.  I know that [...]

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.. – Romans 6:12 One thing that God has been teaching me, and in my own daily experiences, all times that I can think of when there is strife, pain, difficulty in this life it’s rooted in a few things.  Primarily [...]

I like CJ, would say I am and expert on Pride. I pray God would grant Humility.

“One thing we know, Jehovah Jirah, our Provider, has never let us down. He is faithful though we have often been unfaithful or faithless.” A friend recently responded to an email when I sent it out about a need.  This is so true, God is faithful when we are faithless.  It was true of the [...]

We are far enough along in the church planting process now, where God has granted us a time to come up with our Church Vision.  We have a ton of notes and yet I have no way to put it well.  I just thought I’d share some of my difficulty with all 7 readers of [...]

Yesterday at Panera, met I had the opportunity to meet Gus Suarez, who is the recently the new Professor of Church Planting, Director Nehemiah Center for North American Church Planting @ Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.  He’s back in the corner with two students who were with him and I was overhearing them [...]

I have been reading through the book ‘Radical‘ by David Platt.  He’s one of the youngest preacher I’ve seen that has a grasp of what’s going on in the world.  For being such a young man he seems to carry with him a gravity of the situation of lost souls and the “Radical” call that [...]

Do you ever get the sense that you’re going through life in a routine, and although you’re a believer, the gradual routine of life, just doesn’t seem to be the same as what you read in the bible. There is something to be said no doubt for living a quiet and peaceful life, and doing [...]

In this video “Is This Really Church by Francis Chan” he’s speeking at a conference in 2009. After 13 years of good ministry, and after having what he could consider a culturally “popular” and culturally “successful” Church he’s ask the question, ” Is what we do on Sunday’s Church ?” – Not that the Sunday [...]