It feels really weird to come to the end of a two year project. I remember what it was like when VCC moved to the Grove. What a crazy experience. I was basically born and raised in that building. I was there every week for 30 years. Then in one week we moved and I never went back. No more[...] Read More…
Last night we met in our new space for a time of worship and prayer. It was awesome. I’ve been in the building every day for the last 4 months but last night was totally different. The presence of people and the people that they represented that would come was overwhelming for me. As soon as I walked in with[...] Read More…
Just got back from 3 days at Risen King…conference was amazing. I saw a guy that I prayed for at the last conference a year ago. He’s a church planter in New York. Last year he came forward for prayer from chronic pain he had in his left knee that he had for years. I prayed for him and God[...] Read More…
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. There are so many things that I’m thinking through operationally as a church coming into our new space that it makes my head hurt. And with every policy and procedure and system and staff position and line item I wonder how you keep that thing that keeps you real and raw. As[...] Read More…
Thoughts…behind the scenes…bloopers Love the set this week…so much joy. First song was new. No idea what it was called but it was awesome. If I were a bettin’ man I’d say it was called Deep Waters. Child Dedications in the morning were awesome. So much new life in our church…love it. Something special about the Stirring surrounding these families[...] Read More…
I started a consistent Monday post last week about my Sunday Takeaway. I spoke this week so I’m not going to do a takeaway on myself…that would just be weird. Emily wrote a blog with a pretty sweet recap…check it out. So here’s some behind the scenes madness from the day: – if you didn’t notice we crammed 3,498 things[...] Read More…
So I went running by myself on Wednesday morning in the complete darkness on the Clover Creek trail. I was terrified. God showed me some things. I talked about those things with Nate. Now I’m gonna share those things on Sunday at the Stirring. Here’s a hint in the form of key words… Friends, elderly women with dogs, roosters, machete’s,[...] Read More…