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UPDATE – The Matthew Party

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Well, our experiment paid off and we all had a great time. While not everyone that we invited came, we did have a lot of people there (and a lot of my neighbors!). It was a great time to meet new people and to have a chance to sit down and talk further with people that we've never had the chance to talk with.
There were… Read More

The Matthew (Pumpkin) Party

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Tonight my small group is trying something totally new. In fact, I have no idea how it will actually turn out. About a year ago, we read through Bill Hybels' book, Just Walk Across the Room. It is a book on relational evangelism and one of the ideas that he presents is what he terms a "Matthew Party," based off of Luke 5:27-32.
The idea is to take a group from the church (in… Read More

Bible Reading Plan

Monday, September 29th, 2008
We put together a 90 day Bible Reading plan (spread out between 15 weeks) at thirdformat.com for people to read through together. I want to extend the invitation to anyone who wants to read through this with us. You can download it here. Also, we created a Google group for people to discuss things as we go. Click here to check it out. Read More

What is your Walkscore?

Monday, July 21st, 2008
Thanks to my friend Steve, I've been exposed to a great website called walkscore.com. It is a website that calculates your address based on what is within walking distance. It shows you where the closest coffee shops, restaurants, schools, parks, movie theaters and the like are. Your score is based on how many of these are available within reasonable walking distance from where you live. This is very intriguing to me for many reasons. One, gas is ridiculously expensive. But more importantly, I would guess that the… Read More

I’m Sorry

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My Mom saw this sign in downtown Phoenix recently and sent it to me. I think this is absolutely beautiful and it encourages me about the church.  Read More