Hey everyone! Sunday night God really moved in our service and gave us a word that was both uplifting and challenging. There is no doubt that God is moving and is ready to do something great here at South Decatur. He is creating a Life Giving Church within us. Now you might be asking what [...]
Don’t Grow Weary
This is an issue that has been on my heart for the last couple of weeks. I email my staff and volunteers about it last week, and then talked about it during our Bases o Ministry Sunday Life Class Sunday morning. The issue is growing weary doing the work of God. Paul tells us in [...]
Is the Holy Ghost just not Cool Anymore?
Now before you think, “What is pastor saying?” just hear me out. So many churches today that were birthed out of the fire, and can trace their roots to a time when the Holy Spirit ran the show, have changed. Not so much in appearance, but in something deeper and something that is much more [...]
Grace
“for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory. Ephesians 2:8-9
These are some of my favorite verses in all the Bible, because they let me know just how much Jesus loved me. By grace we are [...]
Back to Church
All this month we are working hard at South Decatur on our “Back to Church Campaign”. Many people that once were in the church have fallen out of church and we are making an effort to get them back into God’s house. Fallen out of church is not a hard thing to do. Miss a service [...]
The Promises are Yours
What has God promised you? What ever it is maybe you are like many waiting for it to come to past. Like many you wonder will it come to past, will God give me my promise? The truth is though that the promises of God are already yours. They were given to you by God [...]
When we all Work Together
How do we grow the church? As a lead pastor for the past sixteen years I have studied this question from every angle. I have tried all kinds of things to help the church grow, more failing than succeeding I have to say. But as John Maxwell says, “we learn far more from our failures [...]
Straddling the Box
Ok, though it is true that we are living in a very pluralistic world, as Christians we do not serve a pluralistic God. Throughout the Bible we are told that God is a jealous God and that if we are going to serve Him then we have to do it with all of our heart, [...]
In His Image
In Genesis 1:26 God says “Let us make man in our own image”. Now it is here that we understand who man was and who we are today. When God declared this He was not saying that man would have blue eyes or brown hair, but what God was saying is that man would be [...]
Where is your Faith?
Where is your faith? That is the question that Jesus ask his disciples in Luke 8. They found themselves in the middle of a terrible storm and were doing everything they could to survive, while all the time Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the boat. Finally in a panic they go and wake [...]
