Planting Missional Life: God Moved Into The Neighborhood

We recently began a six week teaching experience at RiverTree that we titled:  Planting Missional Life.  This series is the culmination of several years of work that God has been doing in the life of our leadership and the heart of His church.  It is also the launch...

Necessary Endings

My friend Alex recommended this book to me and WOW am I glad that he did!  The book?  Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud. Cloud’s premise is that as we go through life . . . in our personal life, business life, relationships, spiritual life, etc. . . . we need to...

Unbroken

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is without a doubt one of the best reads of the summer.  I couldn’t put this one down! Hillenbrand recounts the TRUE story of Louie Zamperini–I capitalize TRUE because it is almost beyond belief.  Zamperini was a U.S. Olympic...

Hell No? Hell Yes?

In a nutshell, “Hell no? Hell yes?” pretty much summarizes Rob Bell’s book Love Wins and Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell. I read Love Wins by Rob Bell a couple of months ago.  After reading it I felt more compelled to tell people about Jesus.  Even...

Our house is on the market

Julie and I just put our house on the market.  And just for clarification, we love living here!  We live at the top of a wooded hill on 3.2 acres in a very “pastoral” setting (pun intended).  Jackson Local is a great school system and we have MANY friends in the...