Category: Church

This upcoming Saturday, our church is hosting a conference entitled The Collision Conference: When Christ & Culture Collide. If you are going to be in Southern California this weekend, you are personally invited to this conference. Click here to visit the official conference website. Click here to join the event on Facebook. We will also…

This past Sunday was the first time our church gathered in our new facility. It is a great opportunity that God has blessed us with. We are grateful to the host church for being so gracious. We are excited to partner together for the gospel. Here is a short photo essay of the first Sunday…

This post that went live Tuesday of this week, entitled: The Most Inexplainable Issue I Have Ever Faced In The Church caused quite a stir. The discussion about the post was rather lively and gracious. It was a really good sharpening session of various approaches to the issue. One of the commenters provided some really good insight…

I have faced an issue that I just can’t quite figure out. I hope that you as the discerning reader will be able to help shed light onto it. It seems like a particular mode of reasoning is prevalent everywhere but the church. Only in the church will you find people who constantly disagree and…

In this post, I want to outline four types (groups) of people that populate and dominate the Russian church in the United States. This is all based on my twenty year observation while being in the Russian church in America. Let me say right out of the gate that I love the church in general…

One of the many marks of a healthy community is a culture of confession. The bible calls us to confess our sins to one another. The bible calls us to pray for one another. These instructions are for our good and for our benefit. We are called to confess our sin and to ask for…

I absolutely love the local church. I really do believe that the church is the hope of the world. If you call yourself a Christian but are not a committed member of a local church, the authenticity of your claim may be challenged. When I invite people to come to church, some say they do…

I often hear people say that they absolutely love Jesus, just not the church. I call this the comfortable deception condition (cdc). This cdc stunts the spiritual growth of a Christian and robs the community of learning from another. It usurps the individual of progress they would otherwise experience. To say that you love Jesus…

The Apostle Paul planted an exemplary church in the city of Thessalonica. It was a church that was imitated and it is a church that should be imitated (1 Thess. 1:1-5). Here are eight characteritics of a church, centered around the person and work of Jesus.