@GabeTaviano @ScottMagdalein @jtauber Just did something cool w/Google Maps API. Saved me so much time: http://bulgarianchurches.com #ourCOG

Don’t hit the fast forward button on me just yet. You might be tempted to skip ahead, thinking that the reason it was defining to get kicked out of Eastland was that it led to us landing at Little Rock.  And of course that is true enough–but the transition into “the land” (spiritually and geographically) […]

I’ve never been fond of the trite “new church” language of “We are not your grandmother’s church.”  I can be charitable enough to understand the sentiment–it’s often a way of saying we  have a culture and style that will be outside your expectations of institutional religion.  But even given that, I hate the phrase–it is […]

ProBible.net / Acts 19:39 http://goo.gl/9VN5F #ourCOG

Whenever Pastor Steven Furtick has introduced me to preach at Elevation, he has always spoken kindly of what he sees as a very particular gift at Renovatus, a different gift for the sake of our city–and it is true that our churches have different flavors.  But let me tell you, there has not been a […]

The Ekklesia http://goo.gl/a8DOJ #ourCOG