I read this spoken word piece written by Micah Bournes, one of last summer’s interns, in my message yesterday at Antioch. I wasn’t going to post it, but I’ve had an overwhelming amount of requests. Here it is: A wise man once said to me “the more I study history the harder it is to […]
I’m looking forward to the BBQ after church this Sunday. First, because it sounds like a lot of fun to do a community BBQ on the 4th of July. Secondly, because there are kid bounce houses, which means my kids will be happy. Thirdly, because instead of crappy Costco burgers they are doing Shish Kebobs!
Welcome the birth of the Antioch Choir everyone!! My good friend, Ben Larson, has foregone a scholarship at NYU Grad School (tops in the country) to hang with Antioch and birth The Antioch Choir (in addition to an Antioch Drama team and helping with Kids Music). The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is our bar – waiting
I’ve been buried lately with blessings. Almost too many God things and dreams coming true at one time to keep up. What I realized, that never occurred to me before, is that when God heaps on blessings – like a snowstorm – you need to shovel out! In other words, good stuff is still stuff…
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The 4th of July falls on a Sunday this year. As a result, we wrestled as staff on whether to have our Sunday morning worship service or not. In the end, we all decided that it would be silly to cancel church as most of the BBQ’s and fireworks are set for the evening. We
Pretty cool weekend coming up this week. Good friend Ed Underwood, Pastor of Church of the Open Door, is coming up and giving a message based on his new book Reborn to Be Wild. It is a semi-autobiographical account of the Jesus Movement of the 70’s that Ed was a part of and his account
Crazy Ivan was a term used in the movie The Hunt For Red October (Kip Jones’ favorite) for a sudden and radical turn the Russian Captain (Sean Connery) would make to see if another sub was following behind. I’ve been feeling, lately, God is about to pull some Crazy Ivan’s with Antioch – sudden and
Here are some pictures someone sent me from the Habitat Build today. Pretty cool to see so many people helping build Robin’s house (Robin is on the right below)!
How’s this for a Pastor of Community? We’ve now got Brandon Reynolds’ mug on thank you notes for the staff to use. Love it!
