KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 2 PART II: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING OF CHURCH Practical Implication #1: Learning to see what is happening with the church globally. As Americans it is very hard for us to admit the facts that are now being widely reported to us: The church is growing faster in…
Land Of The Free
Don’t know if you’ve heard or not, but the Supreme Court decided this week that it would be OK for local governments to take private property against the will of the landowner to develop it as they see fit. In the case in question it is to create a commercial center that will raise tax…
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1C [by Greg Hubbard]
KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1C I finally realized that the problem with the church was a personal problem! But intertwined in our structural and theological rediscovery of church was an even more primary piece to the puzzle. The puzzle had so many pieces in place, but the center piece was still missing. And as…
Galatians [3:19-23]
Galatians 3:19-23 Well then, why was the law given? It was given to show people how guilty they are. But this system of law was to last only until the coming of the child to whom God’s promise was made. WHOA! What did he just say? I forgot it was so plainly spelled out. There…
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1B [by Greg Hubbard]
KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1B I then suspected that the problem with the church was a theological problem. I had only been in Las Vegas for a few months when my fellow Apex leaders and I began sensing some issues brewing beneath the surface of our seemingly “successful” church. These issues would have been…
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1A [by Greg Hubbard]
KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1A I next suspected that the problem with the church was a cultural problem. After college, I spent five years involved in church planting in the New York City Metro Area. Part of that time I spent on a church-planting team in the New Jersey suburbs. The remainder of that…
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1 [by Greg Hubbard]
A friend of ours who currently resides in Las Vegas, NV has been on an interesting journey over the past several years. He has chronicled a bit of that for a class he was teaching at a mid-western Bible college. He shared that paper with us when we were out there in October last year,…
Trains
We went to see the trains last night. Among many other family night events. This break from our previous busyness of gigging and serving and doing and being everywhere has been so amazing. So refreshing. So great for our family, I believe. We spend every evening either together as a family, exploring our town or…
News
“A 44-year-old woman from Monroe County was killed today as an automobile driven by a former Olympic Medalist missed a stop sign and collided with her vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle was not hurt.” “Police say three men were fatally wounded as gunfire broke out in a downtown neighborhood around 1am Monday night….
Galatians [3:15-18]
Galatians 3:15-18 Dear brothers and sisters, here’s an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case. God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn’t say the promise was to his children, as if it meant…