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Saved by grace. Servant by calling. Husband of Paula. Father of Linley Beth. Lead Pastor of The Point Community.

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The “Show Me” state shows no love for Acts 29

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Being affiliated with both the SBC and Acts 29, I have delayed any comment on the recent controversy in Missouri concerning churches that are both Southern Baptist and Acts 29 affiliated. I have been hoping to see the MBC resolution withdrawn, but that’s not going to be the case. My brief comments are below and a Baptist [...]

Deal Or No Deal?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Posting & Pondering

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

On Mr. Hawpe and his article regarding the ‘indecent’ prayer I offered in the Ky. House of Representatives… 
Mr. Hawpe of the Courier Journal has, thankfully, moved on to a new and more…ummm…….sensitive topic.
Mr. Hawpe specifically addresses his article and some of the reponses he received. Ofcourse, he has only chosen the comments that give him [...]

Straight And Narrow

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

  I’ll start with a conclusion. Liberal pastors in liberal churches love people more than they do Jesus. But that’s just part of it, here’s the other half— Fundamentalist Pastors in traditional churches love their church and it’s traditions more than they love people outside their church or Jesus.
From Scripture, we are instructed to love [...]

If I Had My Way

Friday, February 16th, 2007

If I had My Way …

We’d be impacting our community and engaging our culture, in creative and effective ways, every day in some way. 
We’d have a new stage and cool backdrop and some really nice lighting to go along with it. (The stage would be clean too, free of clutter… ;-) 
We’d have a team of people in some foreign [...]

Nobody’s Listening

Friday, February 9th, 2007

 It seems that a group from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas had planned to trek to Bardstown Kentucky in order to protest at the funeral of ten family members that were tragically killed in a house fire there earlier this week. These bozos from this ‘church’ travel around the country protesting primarily at the [...]

Pleasure Principle

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Jesus was all about pleasing His Father, everything He did was out of obedience and love for His Father. At the beginning of His ministry, just after His baptism Jesus heard these words from His Father…“This is my Son, whom I love. With Him I am well pleased.”

Can you honestly say that pleasing God is [...]

Anonymously Bitter and Bored

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Someone, anonymously, used the ‘Visitor Registration Form’ on the TPCC website to send the following message…”what would you do for members or employees if you did not have crestwood to get them from?” [unedited]. They stated their name as ‘crestwood baptist’ (though they misspelled it) and gave the Crestwood phone number.
I chuckled a bit at [...]

Green Eggs And Ham?

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

It seems that Chuck Queen just views the Bible as a good story with some good ideas that might help ‘thinking people’ enjoy life and be a better person. His latest (I say ‘ad’ he says ‘article’) in the State Journal has him going even further off the chart of theological truth. Here’s a particularly [...]

Monday Reflections

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Sunday at The Point was simply a day that was truly significant in the life of this church. The number of people that are joining this family of faith is simply amazing. There were a number of families that came to me and indicated that they have been searching for a local church and they believe that God is leading [...]

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