From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Knowing a Wolf When You See It

October 30, 2009

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” – The Words of Jesus in Matthew 10:16 In honor of Halloween (not really) I just finished speaking at a great church conference this morning about KNOWING WHO & WHAT THE WOLVES ARE.  It is [...]

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Sin Police: To Be or Not to Be?

October 22, 2009

A few months ago I asked you your thoughts on a weed-smoking volunteer @ Courageous Church.  Many of you declared firmly that he could not and should not serve in the church until he stopped smoking and others of you basically wanted to fire up with him :-) Since that post, I have encountered issue [...]

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Thank You! Changes with hopeATL!

October 21, 2009

I want to take a quick moment out to thank each and every one of you that has served with hopeATL since the floods hit Atlanta a month ago.  We have helped bring real hope to hundreds of families because of your generosity and hard work.  I am so amazingly proud of you and proud [...]

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Some Brutal Honesty for Church Planters: Less Bling. More Truth.

October 21, 2009

I love leading Courageous Church! 9+ months into this adventure and I am still excited, passionate, still optimistic, and still courageous!  However, I feel like I have done some of my fellow church planters a bit of a disservice by telling you about all of the success and all of the accolades without really giving [...]

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Ask Anything…Again!

October 21, 2009

On this past Sunday in both of our morning services we took dozens of Juicy/Funny/Serious/Deep questions that you submitted online here and tackled them head on.  So many people asked us to do it again that we are going to doing one more time this Sunday.  We already have a ton of questions we couldn’t [...]

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Meet Jasmine

October 20, 2009

(Every week I serve as a Chaplain at a homeless center in Atlanta as a part of my graduate education.  I wrote this for our discussion group and wanted to share it with you. Names have been changed.) Just a few weeks ago I was mid way through a Thursday morning of serving as one [...]

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No Grillz or High Heels: The New Morehouse Dress Code

October 16, 2009

Let me not front like I am an unbiased reporter.  I am uber excited that my alma mater, Dear Old Morehouse, has enacted a new dress code that bans brothers from wearing everything from grillz to high heels.  Already gangstas and gay dudes are calling it discrimination, but I call it a private college…for men. [...]

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Ask Anything…Almost :-)

October 15, 2009

(Even if you are out of state, submit your questions and hear the answers on the podcast this Monday) On this Sunday I can promise you that we will be talking about what YOU are interested in because I am going to be taking YOUR questions! I have heard for years that people feel like [...]

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Down to the Wire!

October 12, 2009

The State of Georgia has asked that all flood affected families be done with cleanup by this Saturday.  Don’t get me started on how insensitive this is.  Really – I might start cussing. It’s going to be tough, but I know that with YOUR help we can get it done!  Over 1,000 of YOU  from [...]

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11 More Days: New Schedule for HopeATL

October 5, 2009

Hey HopeATL Crew! Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a brand new day and hurting people need your help!  We missed a day of work today because of the heavy rains and need YOU and everyone you know to help people get their lives back on track! Red Cross is no longer serving meals in the neighborhoods we’re [...]

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Do What God Says to Do!

October 2, 2009

Just days before the Atlanta Flood I made a very tough decision to pull the plug on something in Courageous Church that I started and loved called Choose Your Own Adventure.  On many levels it was working to impact and change our city, but the timing seemed off.  It was doing OK, but wasn’t thriving.  [...]

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HOPE!

October 2, 2009

So much stuff had to happen to make this possible (much of which we were sworn to secrecy for), but on this Sunday morning from 9am-1pm, October 4th Courageous Church is moving its entire Sunday operation to Ground Zero and we want YOU to join us! We are going to be hosting a HUGE, GIGANTIC, [...]

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Huge Push This Weekend!

October 1, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been able to write any creative blog posts recently…right now my life is a creative blog post :-)  Above is the video we filmed this week on one of our work sites for hopeATL and below is an email blast I just sent out to our volunteers.  I hope you will join [...]

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