Category: Church

  • The maturity of the Body of Christ

    The call is simple, and is not a suggestion. That call is this: GROW UP

  • We sit ignorant of the authority given

    We sit with so much power, and so little willingness to walk in it.

  • Vision for discipleship in a post-Christian world

    Articulating faith in a culture that thinks they know what a Christian is.

  • Keeping the call of God fresh in my life

    On our church blog, I laid out a little more of what God is giving me in prayer for Heights Church. But this thought is something that NEEDS to stay with me: Jesus isn’t nearly concerned with our “numbers” as we think he is. I am usually far more worried about “small.” He took 12 clueless guys, trimmed it down…

  • What will get me up every day for the next 20 years

    I have said over the past couple of years that I’m only praying what God asks me to pray. Those are huge prayers, but I’ve seen huge answers since then.

  • The “bigness” of the gospel

    Key question: How BIG is your gospel?

  • Being missional

    Missional is a word that seems more trendy than real. For me, it’s become more real than trendy.

  • Resurgence

    There is a resurgence that is possible. It won’t be the biggest thing on YouTube or Facebook. But it will be lifechanging for the culture.

  • Prayer for Spirit Power

    Lord, help us be a soul-winning, Spirit empowered, leadership producing, missionary giving, missionary sending  church.

  • Ascension Day

      14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Heb. 2:14-15, NIV) 13 “In my vision at night I looked,…