I’m pretty excited about the new pastor on staff, Brandon Reynolds. The guy can do it all and with a smile too!! In case you haven’t met Brandon yet, we just recently added his staff profile to the web page. Check it out!! P.S. If you’re in to the Strengthsfinder test that I’ve blogged about […]
I just received this e-mail “complaint” from a friend at church. What’s up with all the “seat saving” going on at church these days. Last time I’d seen so much seat saving I was on the bus in the 4th grade. I used to hear complaints that nobody wanted to fill a seat in church…
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I punch in the attendance figures every week, and today it just hit me that this looks kind of cool!!
Here are some great quotes from the introduction and text of a book by the great Puritan John Owen that a friend of mine loaned me as I prepped for this week’s sermon. “By making life easier for ourselves in minimizing the nature and seriousness of our sin, we become greater victims of it.” “Be
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We’ve been away at Cannon Beach as a family for the past four days and after a crazy ride home (Sara dislocated her elbow) we are glad to be back in Bend.
We began a series a week ago on the Book of James that I had planned to last for about 9 Sundays. Well, as with a lot of other things lately, I think the plans are changing. As I’ve been reading, studying and praying I’m beginning to think that we’ll be camping on James until
My friend Gary put me on to this free internet radio site www.pandora.com I’ve been listening to music on it almost non stop. The music is built around your own preferences, which can be saved as your own personal stations. I thought I’d pass on the tip!!
River Rock Fellowship… a local church that has been going for about 3 years decided Wednesday to join with Antioch!! The church merge doesn’t change the structure of Antioch at all, but it does grow the church family with a great group of people, several new leaders and one full time pastor who will come
I spent almost all day with other pastors. I didn’t plan it that way, it just kind of happened. In almost every instance, I appreciated the other pastor more than I would have ever expected. It was a good day for my belief in the local church and that it is in good hands here
