Who did Jesus eat with?

I was combing through notes in the back of my Bible and came across these from  a recent Sunday evening sermon by Jake Grogan.  I thought these straightforward points have a lot of bearing on our everyday lives and are worth thinking on again. Jesus ate with SINNERS (Luke 15). Jesus ate with SNOBS (Luke [...]

Eat Food, Grow Relationships, Give the Gospel

Some of Jesus best Gospel messages didn’t come in a formal, monologue format. Many of His best Gospel messages came around the dinner table. Matthew 9:9-12  And as Jesus…saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. And it came [...]

10 Ideas on Loving Your Neighbors to Christ

Summer is a great time to build your relationships with your neighbors. The dark and cold months of winter  are gone. The summer months allow for getting to know those families who live on either side of you. We must be intentional about beginning and maintaining redemptive relationships. If you have additional ideas add them [...]

Preparing for a New Member – part 4

This is the fourth and final part of the series – Preparing for a New Member. We’ve compared the welcoming of a new child into a family similar to the welcoming of a guest into a church family. There are three phases of welcoming a guest into our church family: preparation, process and finally, the product. The preparation [...]

Preparing for a New Member – part 3

When I began this series I likened the welcoming of a newborn child into a family, similar to the welcoming of a guest to our church. There are three phases of welcoming a guest into our church family: preparation, process and product. The preparation has to do with what we as a church family can do to [...]

Preparing for a New Member – part 2

As my wife and I prepared for our new addition to our family we would have loved to build a new room perfect for our newborn, but that would have been impossible. Instead we chose to prepare and do the very best with the baby room that we could possibly do. The room may not [...]

Preparing for a New Member – part 1

For the past nine months now our family has eagerly anticipated welcoming the newest Mosier into our family. We are intense about making sure that the environment that we’re bringing this new one into is ideal. We’ve prepared by painting walls, installing new blinds and curtains, piecing a crib together, organizing clothes and have even come [...]