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In my continued series of my CHURCH PLANTING – ROAD RULES. I want to focus on the SEATS and MIRRORS. Your SUPPORT and your STORY. ADJUST YOUR SEAT AND MIRRORS I hate driving my wife’s car. Not just because she drives a white Kia minivan but because I will hop in, and it will takeContinue reading “Adjust your Seats and Mirrors”

My middle child just turned sixteen and so the American rite of passage is upon me, the dreaded drivers license.  I haven’t looked at a driver’s manual in 30 years…when I did, I noticed something.  I noticed a correlation between preparing to drive and preparing to plant a church. I’m going to share with you someContinue reading “ROAD RULES – A CHURCH PLANTERS JOURNEY”

“…Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among the nations,…” Romans 1:4b-5 (emphasis added) Grace is the unmerited favor of God. There is nothing that you or I did to earn or deserve the love or favorContinue reading “What to do with Grace?”

In any organization but especially with churches one of the most difficult thing to navigate is transitions. The churches that grow verses the ones that don’t are the ones that prepare not just for the growth but the transitions between the stages of growth. In my experience there are a few numerical stages that seemContinue reading “Transitions”

So, Sunday I had an “episode” between our two worship services.  My eyesight got blurry, I saw stars and almost passed out. I made my way to my office and collapsed in my chair. My wife and several others encouraged me to go to the hospital. Which, of course I didn’t.  Out of the abundanceContinue reading “Listen to your body”

Getting it perfect is overrated. Don’t get me wrong I believe we should strive for excellence in whatever we do but sometimes when you focus so hard on getting something perfect it causes a level of stress that is just not worth it. I read an article in Golf Digest a long time ago whereContinue reading “Perfection is overrated.”

WHY ARE WE BAPTISTS? We are defined by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the good news. The Great Commission Baptists are a cooperative of like minded churches whose foundation is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of sharing that gospel throughout the world. By cooperating with thousands of other churches (theContinue reading “Why we are Great Commission Baptists(SBC)?”

There has been quite a lot of talk this week about “unity”. President Biden tried to bring the very divided country together with a speech…the speech spoke often of unity. Then within a day he began to do things that others found quite divisive. Here is the thing…unity is overrated…it is unrealistic and since theContinue reading “Unity is overrated.”

2 years ago today was Live Oak Church’s first weekly worship service. It was considered a pre-launch because we still didn’t even have our own home yet. First Baptist Church Johns Island graciously allowed us to meet in their youth room on the second floor of their fellowship hall. I went into the day withContinue reading “Looking Back”

Prayer…it is one of those things that everybody does, though usually out of desperation. Even mature christians find the spiritual discipline of prayer difficult to master. Funny because at it’s core it is simply talking and listening to God. We do that with our loved ones, we do that with our co-workers…heck we do thatContinue reading “Why is it hard to pray”