One great way to make Scripture come alive is to rewrite it (carefully and reverently) in your own words.  It allows you to personalize the words written so many years ago in a new way.  I did this with Psalm 96 the other morning, and it was refreshing to me…
Let’s not sing the same old [...]

Remember when you were in elementary school and it was “show and tell” day?  You’d bring in something cool to show your class and then tell them all about it.  Maybe it was a new puppy, or perhaps memories from your summer vacation.  These days allow kids to pass along to other kids the [...]

I am at the Great Commission Pastor’s conference this week, where the theme is "Changing Lives".  Last night was a great reminder that it is the gospel of Jesus Christ that truly changes lives.  Tom Short reviewed verse after verse pertaining to the gospel and our role in proclaiming it.
I don’t often do this, but [...]

Each year during Lent Grace Point focuses on a common, Church-wide theme.  This focus has included our Sunday services and Life Groups, and this year it will also include our Thursday morning Band of Brothers gathering and the EPIC Student Ministries.  It is always a powerful 40-day journey together as a church, and we are [...]

I’m in the middle of of a class called “Contemporary Evangelism”.  Rather than have us read and interact on a traditional textbook, they are having us read six different books with six different approaches to evangelism in the 21st century.  I have particularly enjoyed the one I just finished reading called Concentric Circles of Concern [...]