It is within man’s sinful nature to believe we are better than those around us most of the time. We say, “What were you thinking!” and “I would have definitely done that differently.” I am guilty of this all of the time. But, as we have been studying through Romans 8 at Aletheia over the past 4 [...]
As I was preparing to write my blog today, I noticed that this is my 200th post. I started this blog in June of 2007 and even though I have taken long seasons off from writing anything, my hope is that I have used it as a means to communicate what’s going on [...]
It was great to be back at Aletheia (Tampa) this past Sunday. Ashlee and I were out of town the previous two weekends for her brother’s wedding as well as the 10 year anniversary of the first Aletheia Church in Harrisonburg, Va. I missed my church family in Tampa and being able to worship [...]
This past Sunday I was away celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the first Aletheia Church that we started in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was a joy to be at the original location that Jesus began this church planting movement. When we left over 2 years ago to plant the church in Tampa, we left an [...]
So this past week, I was at a rural baptist church in Riner, Virginia, about 700 miles from Aletheia, and let me tell you, I missed my home church. But, it is nice when I go away to have a back up that has more teaching experience than I have years. So, with that being [...]
Seeing as though the past 30 hours or so have been an absolute circus (I will discus that in detail in a future post), that left me with little time to be able to put together a decent recap of my sermon from this past week: “A Strange Dichotomy”. As I made reference to a [...]
I am teaching through the book of Romans presently at Aletheia Church and it has been amazing to see how Jesus has shaped the theology of our church here in Tampa through our verse-by-verse study in this doctrinally rich text. We are in chapter 6 right now and this past week we looked at how [...]