The Path – A Call to Follow
How every path of our own doing ends in the same place, and how the Father has a different path in mind for us. Pre-Adoption and our Paths: Our lives, pre-adoption (pre-salvation), are run by us and our community (family,…
Leading with Love
Simplicity of the Mission:Such a simple set of things can make up the church in such a season as we have just gone through. It purifies and clarifies things to have difficulty. We’ll always tend toward having many activities going…
What Needs to Change?
This Table comes from a design document that was developed as a “Fronts of Change” in the church. It is not comprehensive, because there are so many aspects of what could be improved. It is simply to invite comment and…
A Prayer of Blessing for The Church
So many times over the past twenty years, I have been tempted to say “enough!” and cry out to God to lead me and my family toward something else. In every situation, in every moment, where I thought that we…
Why does God always want us in a place of trust?
I wrote on this topic right before COVID… Not knowing that COVID was coming. Then, we just went through this past 14 months and I would have never thought my own words would need to teach me time and time…
“I could have got more” – Oskar Schindler
Written on Monday, April 5, 2021. The day that I will officially be done serving on the Board of Directors at Vineyard Church, after over Thirty One years. Friends, This has been a difficult last few days. I’ve been back…
Harvesters, Hope, and a Hurting Heart
This is a message I wrote to honor my Mom’s life the week after her death on March, 28, 2020. She was an inspiration to all. LAST SATURDAY – March 28, 2020 My cell phone rang at 9:21 last Saturday…
Where we need to go?
The following is an adaptation of the writing I did for the pastor search team at Vineyard Church. It is a discussion of five key trends as we navigate the next for churches. COVID-19COVID-19 Hit and large, in-person gatherings will…
A Prayer During Unrest – June 2020
As we have gone through this week, an uneasy, unsettled feeling has been growing in me. Not fear, but just unsettled. The enemy of God’s Kingdom is fighting hard to negate the love, hope, trust, and openness of heart that…
Controversial? Does Your Life Matter?
This message was posted last summer, and received quite a bit of push back. Let me know your comments At some point, you will feel it. It is an ache, a stirring, a longing, or a dull, chronic nagging. “What…
The Kingdom and Choosing
9:24 AM God our Father created in us the ability and the capacity to choose. It is this “will” that God gave us that was not a mistake by Him. It wasn’t that He was surprised when the “will” in…
What happened on 9/11 – A message to the church on 9/11/2020
Message regarding 9/11 and Vineyard Church 9/11/2001 is a day that those of us who experienced it will never forget. On this, the nineteenth 9/11 since that day, I’d like us to pause and remember what changed and how those…
The Message Before the Message – Delivered Jan 9-10, 2021 following the “insurrection” in Washington, DC
The Message Before the Message Friday, January 8, 2021 7:06 AM A video of some us this can be seen below. Many people, experts, pundits, leaders, followers, neighbors, co-workers, clients, and corporations are saying that the events of 2020, culminating…
Owners, Time Shares, and Renters
Ownership? Time Shares? Renters? Monday, February 1, 2021 10:35 PM One of the things that hit me during the interview for Senior Lead Pastor at Vineyard Church – Kansas City was that God builds strong churches when we transfer ownership…
Imagine a Church:
What is the Promised Land? Not a comprehensive list. Just thoughts. 6:08 AM A church where hope and trust in the Lord are palpable. A church where anyone (from any background, culture, sub-culture, or brokenness) who comes experiences love, not…
The New and The Old
Check back here in the coming weeks to find out more about what God is doing. We will have to pray, organize, design, envision, and listen. The Church has an opportunity to step into the world and bring the transformation…