Obstacles and Opportunities

Sometimes it is hard to decide what is an obstacle and what is an opportunity. We’ve been doing test runs for a Saturday night coffee house service during the summer in North Park San Diego. They’ve been going great. We have discovered that the business is for sale and will close in one week. Is this [...]

My New Favorite Verse

Just finished planning our new message series, Passion, with John Gordy, our Spanish langauge pastor. I have a new favorite verse. Habbakuk 2:2,3 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing [...]

Permission To Dream

I’m doing individual staff meetings next week with my team and I’m giving them permission to dream. I’m asking each one to tell me where they see themselves in one year. Then we will sit down and see if we can create a blueprint to make it happen. It should  be exciting to see what [...]

Favor

I just finished a two-part message series on receiving God’s favor. It is interesting to see just how many people received God’s favor in the Bible- Noah, Moses, Samuel, Nehemiah, Mary…the list goes on. To be favored by God is to have more than just a good day- it is to have a good month [...]

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