Last week, exactly at this time, my father and I were speaking in Newport News, Virginia, at the United States Air Force (Air Combat Command) Chaplain’s Conference. I know that was a mouthful but that’s exactly what it was. These Chaplain’s were the ones who were overseeing the spiritual well being of the Air Force [...]
It’s not too often in life when you have the opportunity to be a part of the beginning of something incredible. Well, this next week, May 13th-15th, about 150 people will be able to do so when the Aletheia Network will hold its very first Network Conference. I love grass roots events…Probably why I’m a [...]
Now I know that one of the newest upcoming trends in church planting is to avoid talking about the dreaded “numbers.” How many did you have on Sunday? How many are coming out each week? How many are you running? These are the non-postmodern sensitive questions that you get as a church planter all the [...]
This past week I had a new visitor at Aletheia tell me that they loved our church and that it reminded me of their church back home. That is always a good thing in my mind because we want people to feel comfortable when they come through our doors. But the next thing she said [...]
It’s amazing that we’ve only been in Tampa for a year now. It was a year ago yesterday that we had our first on campus Bible study, in which 13 people or so came out. We had no idea what the next year would hold. As I have mentioned in a previous post, so much [...]
In collegiate church planting, I am a firm believer that to see any sort of success, unless you are holding people at gun point and forcing them to come through your doors on Sunday, you have to go to the students on campus. I spend 4 days out of the week connecting with the students [...]
So it’s not typical that I blog about how things are going in the specific church plant I am at. But I am going to that just a little bit in this post because at the end of the day, I am a church planter, one who is daily in the trenches, one who has [...]
As I alluded to in my last post, church planting is a process. I love doing what I do but I have really had to learn something over the past decade of doing this…planting churches takes time. I am naturally a very impatient person so this often times doesn’t bode well for me. This is [...]
This past week (Feb. 14th), I was teaching out of 1 Peter 2:9 at Aletheia Tampa and I got a little fired up. Graham Cochrane thought it would make for some good sermon jam material and well, here you go…