An insecure kid who loved music and grew up to be an unhappy rock star and later a happy Christian, Brian “Head” Welch spent his teenage years in Bakersfield, playing guitar, watching horror movies, being mean to his girlfriend, and feeling bad abo…

Life Pointe Church’s people love Starbucks. In fact, we are borderline obsessed. For a while, when we were having Saturday night services, we would do our best to be out of service and make it to Starbucks before they closed.Eventually, we we so acquai…

There is a beautiful retreat center in Mississippi that I used to take students to for our annual youth camps. The retreat center was built around a natural spring that pumped 40,000 gallons of crystal clear spring water every hour. If you were luck…

Avoid riding in automobiles—they’re responsible for 20 %of all fatal accidentDon’t stay home—17% of all accident occur in the homeAvoid Walking on the streets—14% of all accidents occurto pedestriansAvoid traveling by air, rail, or water—16…

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of…

Nothing annoys me more than to hear someone say “the King James Bible is the ‘original’ translation of the Bible.” I’ve been in churches across the state and have seen a clinging to the KJV. People are almost afraid they’ve lost God if they deviate…