Loaded Up

Wow, it's been a veeeeery busy Monday! Blown by. How about you? What are your Monday's like?
Mine are mainly filled with administrative tasks and catching up on phone calls/emails that I wasn't able to get to at the end of last week.

Really looking forward to our Leadership Meeting tonight -- have some great stuff to share! We have some incredible leaders at Oso Creek, that's much of the reason for God's blessing on our church!

And tomorrow is not only April Fools Day ---- but it's my beautiful wife's birthday!

A New Office!

Only 1 (one) mile from my house!

That's awesome :)! Or is it?????

Family Circus

I'm excited that tomorrow morning we begin a new series on Hope for Our Families!
Yes, I've taken a cue from Bill Keane and his Family Circus cartoon.

I love his cartoon because it talks about real life, but in a way that makes it fun to survive.

How many folks around you could use help navigating family issues? I'll give you a clue as to who needs encouragement in their family . . . If they're breathing!

Who you gonna invite??

Mature or Immature? Or Both?

What is a mature church? What does it look like to be a group of believers who are living out following Jesus in a way that brings new life? Mark Beeson - Pastor of Granger Community Church - had an awesome post on this.

Read below and ask God to help us follow Him with all our being!

Three days ago Rick Warren proffered this question for me to mull over. What is the mature church?

I knew immediately how I would respond: "The 'mature church' is the church filled with immaturity."

Anywhere in the world, whether plant or animal, the clear delineation of maturity is the ability to reproduce. Immature animals can't reproduce. Immature plants can't replicate themselves. The definition of maturity is being fully ripe, fully aged, so the connotation of maturity is obvious. Where you see maturity you'll observe new life, babies and immaturity all over the place.

Maturity desires reproduction. Maturity tolerates juvenile behavior (from juveniles) while training its progeny for success in life. Maturity means little [babies] running all over the place.

If you attend a mature church, be prepared for immaturity. Where you find mature Christians you'll find little babes in Christ running all over the place. In fact, if you have been looking for a church where everyone tithes and everyone serves--you're not looking for a mature church, you are looking for a dying church - aged, impotent and bereft of spiritual newborns because everyone is mature.

Few things are more disturbing than a flock of adult believers standing around complaining that no one has come to Christ while refusing to do something that might result in new life. So when you bump into someone who acts immature at one of our services, don't complain, and don't be surprised. Instead, thank God the mature in Christ are busy delivering newborn babies to the family of God.