October 18th will be Antioch’s 3 Year Anniversary. Pretty hard to believe… When we planted the church, I don’t think we possibly could have imagined all that has happened in the last three years. The staff and elders both talked about the anniversary this week. It was cool to see everyone’s excitement. That’s the beauty
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I like what Winston Churchill, who hated committees and endless chatter, said in favor of the formation of the United Nations. “Jaw Jaw is better than War War.”
Tim Kizziar gave a message a couple of weeks back at Antioch from the book of Job that he called, “Entitlement.” It’s one of the better messages I’ve heard in a long while. Check it out below!! Tim Kizziar Sermon from Antioch Church on Vimeo.
Last Sunday at Antioch, Tim Kizziar underscored a point that I really like. He was talking from the Book of Job about the nature of blessing God as a form of ‘approving of God.’ The converse was cursing God as a form of ‘disapproving of God.’ The interesting point, for me, comes in the relationship
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Brandon Reynolds, the Community Pastor at Antioch, shot me some numbers yesterday that he tallied after the launch of all the Community Groups at Antioch. There are 39 groups, or “pocket’s of community” as Brandon like’s to call it. In those groups there are 428 in attendance. That is 96% of the Sunday morning adult
I’ve been having some discussions lately with some folk who are a part of “The New Atheists” – a term for a recent movement of confident and assertive atheism coming from a collection of writers that includes Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others. Last night I actually watched a debate between William Lane Craig and
In Act II of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Antonio says to Sabastian, “What’s past is prologue.” I’ve been thinking of that for the last hour or so… what’s past – the trials the difficulties the struggles, are really just the beginning. They are the prologue. They are what the author writes to set the stage for
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I loved this blog post that someone forwarded. Funny, accurate and timely. I’d write the same post, but someone would probably criticize me :) Click here to view the post.
Someone asked me what I’m reading, so I thought I’d share what’s on my nightstand. 1. Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow. It’s the history of a certain part of philosophy – namely, Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgentstein. You’ll probably like it if
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