Urban Reformation

As of late I have had difficulty “regaining” what I would said is “right” perspective or “God’s” perspective.  However, a couple of things came out in James this morning for me.  Besides the first part of take joy in those trials, I camped on “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast.”  This society is so [...]

Yesterday my wife had the opportunity to go spend time with a friend, which afforded me the opportunity to take the children to the park.  We brought our dog along with us, Nitro.  Little did I know that Nitro would be such a conversation piece.  As the children ran over to the new playground equipment [...]

We have been meeting together on Saturday mornings.  It’s been a rich time as we go to seminary, (not literally go to seminary) but the book we’re going through every Wed, I’ve written about before is a book of ecclesiology of sorts.  The book which I have blogged about in the past is The Trellis [...]

God has been teaching me a lot lately about differences in people, ministries, families, and life in general.  Some of these differences in people are personal differences, some of them doctrinal differences, some rest in philosophical differences, some are differences, in culture, understanding, presuppositions, and so forth.  As you can tell just in the opening [...]

Over the past several months as we have actually moved out from our local home church and are seeking to establish a work in the North East are of Kansas City, I have found that the issue of Trust is an amazing factor is beginning a church plant. You can call it trust, you can [...]

I’ve been reading this book!  As we are considering planting again in the northeast kc, this is the best book I’ve read on such things.  Don’t take my word for it, Mark Dever does a short review below which you will find helpful to give you an idea.  Enjoy and I look forward to hearing [...]

As I watched this video I was amazed at the Grace, and the genuine care and correction that can only be accomplished through Christ centered, cross centered relationships, and true humility.  Enjoy Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Leading from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

A friend of mine at work gave me a sermon to listen to this week.  Another friend of mine told me that he visited a church with teaching that was decent but possibly light on doctrine.  These things had the wheels spinning this week.  The friend form work, gave me a sermon from a guy [...]

This message has been so profound for me personally. For years I have seen the games we play as professing Christians with Christianity. Cultural Christianity and the lukewarmness that God will someday spew out of His mouth. Someone said one time, and I can’t remember who at the moment, but they said “if God is [...]