Proverbs 24 – The General Contractor

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” – Proverbs 24:3-4 And by house, it means anything worth building, anything of value, and/or anything worthy of pursuit. This could be our actual house. It could be our life and spiritual [...]

Proverbs 12 – Suspicious

I was thinking while reading chapter 12 how blatantly obvious Proverbs credits taking counsel and correction as wisdom. And by default, how ridiculous it makes it seem to reject it. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.” – Proverbs 12:1 So why don’t we do it? Why do we still [...]

Psalm 101 – Leading with a Limp

“Never trust a leader who doesn’t lead with a limp”. That’s something that was said to me by a very godly man a couple years ago.  While you could probably pick that statement apart if you wanted to, considering life experiences, it somehow seems to resonate with most. What he’s saying is that until we’ve [...]

Psalm 89 – The Next Generation

The moment I became a dad, things changed. If you have kids, you know what I mean. I felt like I went through a crash-course on God’s love. And I came out on the other side wanting two things: for my son to understand love and for my son to experience love. Over the past [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 8 Day 5) “Fork in the Road”

As with many community groups going through the Tangible Kingdom Primer, ours from ANC were pre-existing groups (with an already missional and service oriented DNA). In addition to helping us grow in an understanding for who we should be, each of us have seen how the study could be really useful for establishing new groups [...]

Missional Church: African Refugee Churches

As many of you already know, Tray and I had the opportunity to go to Houston last week and help finalize an agreement on a facility that three African refugee churches will utilize for ministry. In this one location, we are going to be able to help plant three churches in three languages: English, Swahili, [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 2 Day 5) “Incarnational Posture”

Today’s discussion might be one of the most important yet (If you haven’t, please take the time to read section 2.5 of “Tangible Kingdom Primer” on pages 40 and 41). What we’ll find is that the questions do not just point us towards an understanding of what incarnational is, but even more so it poses [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 1 Day 3) “Immersed in Community”

Today our reading leads us to consider “Four Immersions” that the early Christian Communities experienced. Each one of them are a part of the plan and each one of them play an important role: 1. They were immersed in New Culture: Often among those who have no context, care, or concern for their God. 2. [...]

Tangible Kingdom – Introduction

For those of you who know what’s going on I need you to do two things: (1) bookmark this site and (2) keep reading, there are some important thoughts for you as you begin at the bottom of this post. For those of you who don’t know… here’s what’s going on… ANC Restore Communities and [...]

Missional Church: Corporate Church

I’ve come to truly love the “sending” of the Church. I love the opportunity to band together in unity of Spirit when we go out into our workplaces, social circles, schools, and neighborhoods as ambassadors for something greater than ourselves. I’ve grown to love experiencing faith in new and exciting ways. I’m learning more and [...]