From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Courageous Church T-Shirts

June 29, 2009

I’m a little funny about selling a lot of stuff @ Courageous Church.  In fact, we don’t sell anything at all.  Well…until now!  My friend Xavier designed us a really cool shirt and all of our profits are going to go to our Global PlumpyNut Initiative.  The shirts are an awesome quality and we’re just [...]

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10 Things that are Harder than I Expected

June 28, 2009

Starting (and growing) a brand new church isn’t easy.  I’ve made a ton of mistakes since we launched 6 months ago and aired some of my dirty laundry for you by sharing a big ‘ol list of mistakes here. However hard you expected it to be, plan on it being much harder.  Some people say [...]

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Wifey’s Perspective on My Strategies

June 26, 2009

In addition to telling the world that I have a crush on Keyshia Cole, my wife gives her up front and personal perspective on some of my strategies to avoid moral failure.  A must read in my opinion. At least now I have a legitimate excuse to put a picture of Keyshia Cole on my [...]

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Revisiting “Drastic Measures to Avoid Moral Failure”

June 25, 2009

A few months ago I wrote what has been the most popular, discussed, debated post on this blog entitled Drastic Measures to Avoid Moral Failure.  The comments there are even better than the post and the discussion is pretty raw and revealing as people obviously feel very passionate about all sides of this issue. Although [...]

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Throwing It All Away

June 20, 2009

It has been amazingly painful and a bit shocking for me to watch my friend Gary Lamb over the past few weeks since he resigned as Pastor of Revolution Church.   His Twitter updates and his blog posts have been so stinking sad and hard to read.   I love the guy and it hurts me to [...]

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Grips with my Own Mortality

June 17, 2009

For a decent part of my youth, the idea of me one day dying was alien at best.  After suriving a few near-death experiences as a teenager, I felt even more like death would escape me.  When I nearly died in this car accident a few years ago, it was the closest thing to death [...]

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Adventurous Christianity = Oxymoron

June 15, 2009

To most people (including Christians), the words Adventurous & Christianity just don’t go together – like Meatball Sundaes. This is absolutely bananas though, because Jesus was a bold, courageous, adventurous, risk taker and the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, is FULL of men and women who lived life beyond the edge of reason as they [...]

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Buncha Stuff Sunday (Early Morning Edition)

June 14, 2009

I’m interrupting my regularly scheduled Sunday evening recap blog post for 3 reasons. Immediately after our Sunday morning service @ Courageous Church my entire family is taking a road trip to Panama Beach so that I can speak tonight for BIG STUF.  Can’t wait! (I’ll tell you all about it and you can follow my [...]

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Just Go For It

June 12, 2009

(Not sure who is looking for these words, but I feel very prompted to say them this morning.) Just go for it. God has called you to do it.  You want to do it.  You’re as ready as you ever will be for it. Tomorrow is not promised. Just go for it. You’ve waited and [...]

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Leading Church in a Flat World

June 11, 2009

In large part due to technological advances and the literal tearing down of walls that divide people groups into little segments that basically hate each other, the playing field in any particular area of the world (including church) is more level (or flat) than ever, but most churches have not yet caught on to this. [...]

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He Got Caught. You Didn’t.

June 9, 2009

WARNING – IF PG 13 language or scenarios disturb you, here is a link to Nick Jr.  Go there now. — I have heard and read about a lot of men (and women) in ministry that have made major moral mistakes, but I never knew any of them very well.  I found it much easier [...]

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Buncha Stuff Sunday

June 8, 2009

It’s hard work, but I have a ton of fun leading Courageous Church Yesterday was a really big day for us on a lot of fronts and I feel like we nailed it. Our weekly FREE BREAKFAST is a very big hit and we keep running out of food (which is a good problem in [...]

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“Adventurous Christianity” should be Redundant

June 7, 2009

In a few hours I will begin what I think may be the most important series in the life our young church entitled, “Choose Your Own Adventure.” A thought that has been really frustrating my mind lately is that I hate I even have to say things like “Adventurous Christianity” or “Courageous Christianity” because these [...]

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A Pastor’s View on the Death of Autotune by Jay-Z

June 5, 2009

Earlier tonight the rapper (he’s a lot more than a rapper) Jay-Z set Twitter ablaze with the release of a very raw & perfectly imperfect track called “Death of Autotune“. Taking up 4 of the top 10 Twitter trends and making folk across the world scurry to wonder if Jay-Z had been shot or something, [...]

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4 Fun Changes @ Courageous Church!

June 5, 2009

I am very excited to announce 4 Big, Fun Changes coming to Courageous Church and can’t wait for you to experience them for YOURSELF! For the past 4 months, we’ve had a 1 Man Band on Sunday mornings with DJ Dust, but we are about to add 5 more pieces to the mix this Sunday [...]

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All the Single Ladies (Part 2)

June 5, 2009

Wow!  The comments on Part 1 of this post were really even better than my article.   As promised, I want to take a little bit of time out to make some observations, suggestions and propose some real solutions to what is a very real challenge for people, particularly single women, here in Atlanta and beyond.  [...]

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Why Arguments Generally Suck

June 4, 2009

Disclaimer: People are regularly shocked when I reveal something personal online.  Generally, people think that I should be close to perfect and very presentable online and leave anything resembling messiness or edginess alone.  Trust me, I don’t tell all of my busines online, but I couldn’t disagree more with the above sentiments and will probably [...]

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Courageous Examples

June 3, 2009

I’m going to be starting a regular feature on my blog where I tell the story of a person that is really taking some courageous steps in life.  While some people may be folk you’ve already heard of, I really want to make sure that I also profile and interview some people that are complete [...]

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We’re Growing and We Need YOUR Help!

June 1, 2009

Courageous Church is growing in so many different ways and we need YOUR help! People are growing into mature Christians. Folk are growing by growing relationships with one another. Our Sunday attendance is growing every single week. We have just been using a DJ for the past 4 months and will be adding a full [...]

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Buncha Stuff Sunday

June 1, 2009

Quick Recap of NYC Trip Thank you for praying and thinking about my trip. Preaching @ Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem this past Thursday & Friday was easily one of the top 3 highlights of my 12 years preaching the Gospel. To even step feet on the marble stage of Abyssinian was an awestruck moment [...]

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