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Most of you likely know about the church plant I’ve devoted much of my time and energy to over the past year. Today we held our third weekly service, so there is no turning back now!  I’ve preached a couple of times- Authentic Community and Who needs a King?- along with the other members [...]

Tomorrow marks the beginning of weekly services at our church plant.  One of the more exciting things for me about the weeks and months to come is the opportunity to share the preaching load with two incredibly smart and devoted friends, Michael Washington and Michelle Dodson.  Here we talk about the resurrection of Jesus, the [...]

The second preview service for our church plant last Sunday went very well.  We had quite a few visitors, including some folks who had come for the first preview service.  We have our final preview service in two weeks and three weeks later, on the Sunday following Easter, we commence weekly services.  You can listen [...]

It’s been too long since I’ve posted something new.  My excuse?  10 days in Colorado taking two classes and this past week spent preparing for our church plant’s first preview service tomorrow.  Our church website is now live and will give you a pretty good idea about the things that matter to us: http://thenewcom.com/bronzeville/
On another [...]

For those who might be interested, here are a few recent sermons I preached at our church:

New Life at the Ends of the Earth (3/22)
Out of Control (6/14)
What is (Y)our Story? (6/28)

On Saturday an email went out to a bunch of PCC folks that a caravan was being organized to pick up our homeless friends on Sunday morning. Typically our van makes a few trips to pick up all 40-50 people. But it was supposed to be cold enough on Sunday morning, that our [...]

Mike and Michelle (whose move to Arizona I lamented this summer) are staying with us through Sunday. Last night Mike and I went to dinner at Famous Dave’s for old time’s sake before going to see I am Legend.
This evening Maggie is teaching a financial management class to some of the women at Jubilee [...]

We’re having a great time with Maggie’s family- lot’s of chatting, walking, and eating.  Mary was given the 3rd season of Lost and Jane was given Planet Earth, so we’ve watched a few episodes of each.  If you’ve not seen any of the episodes of Planet Earth, than you need to rent it at your [...]

I did my best to recap what was a pretty exciting weekend around Parkview at SignsOfLife.org. It was a nutty weekend that wore me out… but also so good.
My sermon isn’t on the Parkview website yet, but the video interview we did with Ron has been uploaded to YouTube.
I wrote up a short review of [...]

We started our new sermon series yesterday (this is the banner we have hanging in the church lobby). Since I’ve been working on putting this series together it felt really good to get it kicked off. I used the passage from Matthew 5:14-16 about light to introduce the idea that to be a [...]