I’ve heard other preachers say this and I’ve said it before as well that if you’re not having fun while you sin then you’re not doing it right! HA! Well, not only is that true, but I learned this week that it is also fun to illustrate sin in a sermon. (Sin IS fun by the way…for a season. Sin might b…
Ever read something about another believer and just feel like you got punched in the gut? That’s how I felt when I read this article from The Voice Of The Martyrs . How often do I take my freedom for granted? How often do I complain about how Christians or Christianity is being marginalized in our c…
Failing doesn’t make you a failure, but you need to learn from it to advance in the future! [Tweet “Failing doesn’t make you a failure, but you need to learn from it to advance in the future!”] Recently, I was asked by Tony Morgan and the leaders at the Unstuck Group to share about the lessons we le…
Vision will communicate where you want to go but unity is what will get you there! [Tweet “Vision will communicate where you want to go but unity is what will get you there!”] Last week, I blogged about vision HERE . One of the things I didn’t share in that blog was the idea of unity. Unity is the b…
I ran across this news story the other day and it intrigued me. The story came out of Spain and told the story of how 1,300 sheep were found wandering through the town in the middle of the night. Around 4:30 AM on Tuesday, June 7th, police were alerted to some 1,300 sheep that were just wandering th…
Hey Element Church ! This is Katie and she is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Katie serves in our Fusion Student Ministry, and Pastor Brendan, our youth pastor, said this about Katie: “ Katie has had such an incredible impact on our youth ministry. She is a person who goes above and beyond, conne…
How much do we honor, revere or fear the name of God? Judging by how we so flippantly throw it around, I think we could at least say we don’t honor it as much as we could! On Sunday at Element Church we started a new series called “Our Father: Praying Prayers That Matter.” In this series we are taki…
No, this is not a plug for online church and no I am not on an emotional down swing and contemplating giving up on ministry. I’m actually not really talking about regular church attendance at all. What I’m talking about is the potential result from serving through outreach. Let me put it this way: W…
Giving is not something I HAVE to do but something I GET to do for God. [Tweet “Giving is not something I HAVE to do but something I GET to do for God.”] In addition to being the founding and Lead Pastor of Element Church , I’m also a financial contributor. I give at least 10% of the income God has…
Community Happenings (5) No, this is not a blog about women in leadership or whether women should be pastors, but my title did peak your interest didn’t it? (I’ll save a blog about that subject for another day) Here at Element Church we have a women’s group called “Leading Ladies” and they are doing…
That’s how I felt during a season in my life earlier this year in which I talked about on Sunday at Element Church . In this message we talked about how the Bible can read us. We said, “The Bible can’t just be something we read, it has to be something that reads us.” [Tweet “The Bible can’t just be…
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian but if you are a Christian why would you not go to church? [Tweet “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian but if you are why wouldn’t you go to church?”] We could talk ad nauseam about the necessity or lack there of of going to Church as a Christian…
