What in the world is A Red Dot Sermon?Something that fits for the first Sunday of a new year.Something that fits as we celebrate the church's response to What Child Is This?Something we'll do together on January 2, 2011.Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.
I once heard Jack Hayford -- long time pastor of The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, CA and the author of the contemporary hymn Majesty -- say this about growing a church:You don't want to grow a big church. You want to grow big people. I like that concept.And I saw...
The first results are in from last Sunday's What Child Is This offering in support of the fight against the global slave trade and human trafficking.And they're pretty spectacular.When we combine them with the offering we'll receive on Christmas Eve for the same...
Here's how we led up to our "Big Ask" yesterday.At the end of the sermon, seven of our young worshippers came out on the platform carrying large photos of children from around the world who have been victims of human trafficking.We told the stories of the global...
That's really what the whole What Child Is This series is about.Freedom for people held against their will.And how we can be part of this bigger thing the Christ child is doing.People are already responding.Will you join them?Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.
When Chris Macedo welcomed people to worship this past Sunday, he spoke of the ways that our What Child Is This project stokes a "fire" in his "bones."I'm much the same way.Here's why this series has changed this Christmas from "oh, another one" to "WOW! I can't...
Jesus answers the question of the Christmas hymn "What Child Is This?" in Luke 4:18-19:The Spirit of the Lord is on me,because he has anointed me to preach good news to the pooor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisonsand recovery of sight for the blind,to...
So it starts Sunday.We've been praying, planning, and dreaming for a couple of months.I've been talking to as many people as possible about this crazy thing we're doing for Christmas 2010.I've even asked my family who lives so far away to get involved.It's What Child...
Many of us have experienced the ways in which church can be an obstacle to faith rather than an empowerer of it.When that happens, is there life after church? Is there faith after church?To enter that conversation, check out Philippians 1:12-18.And then hear for...
John McEnroe always said that attaining the number one ranking in the world was easier than maintaining it.In other words, life after success was harder than life before.You may not be #1 in the world in anything, but you've probably had a measure of success in some...