Listening, Learning & Leading
This past week we held the BIG GIVE at Grace Church. It was an incredible week. God did some AMAZING things. We started with a massive clothing give-away on Friday and Saturday. We had over 1600 people we were able to assist. What a cool way to impact Kingsport. We also provided financial help to [...]
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This week Grace Church will be given the means and the challenge to go out and be generous in the City of Kingsport. We want to make a lasting impact on the lives of the people in our community. We want to offer hope. And, we want to see lives changed. Our vision is to [...]
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This week we got the BIG GIVE started off with a BANG…..We had the honor of being interviewed by WJHL CHannel 11 this week. If you missed the interview, you can watch it below. It is exciting, but for one main reason….PEOPLE ARE GONNA MEET JESUS!!!! Pray for the following in the next few weeks: [...]
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Yesterday we talked about the core values of Grace Church. Our core values gives us structure, direction and purpose behind our primary mission. They also challenge us in our personal lives as well. One of the core values is to Discover Jesus. We view this in two ways. One, we help people to Discover Jesus. [...]
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Have you ever watched the waves roll in at the beach? Have you noticed that every time a waves reaches the shore, the landscape changes? Each times the waves make impact a difference is made. Sometimes it is great, and sometimes it is small. It all depends on the size of the wave. HUGE waves [...]
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I could put a catchy title like “The Magic Formula for Church Growth” or “Multiply Your Ministry” but the reality is that those titles and ideas are self-focused and don’t express the real heart of guys trying to lead their churches towards growth. For most pastors, our heart is not to see the church grow, [...]
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I think that the word Generosity will bring a smile to almost anyone’s face. I LOVE that word. Why? Because I know, as do all of us, that it means something positive. The idea of Generosity is never accompanied by something negative. You never hear, “I can’t stand that guy, he’s so generous….” Just doesn’t [...]
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This morning I was listening to Dr. Peter Jones. He was talking about being culturally relevant in today’s world. He talked about how we have cheapened the Gospel in order to be “relevant”. That somehow by removing the discussion of sin, hell, consequences, trials, persecution, God’s standards and even the Cross….We make the church’s message [...]
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This weekend was AMAZING…..Not that every Easter I can remember in ministry has not been! Besides it’s the “Super Bowl” of the church world! For Grace Church, we had the highest attendance since we re-launched in January 2009. While that is great, the best part was……..seeing the salvations, families restored and lives being healed. It [...]
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So, this week we began doing staff evaluations at Grace Church (@gracekingsport). I really do enjoy this time of year. It is a great opportunity to work on building a strong and unified team. It is an opportunity to get to know one another better. It also gives an open door to sharpening one another [...]
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I am a husband, father and pastor in that order. My heart is to give what I have, all of what I have, to see people fall in love with Jesus. My heart is for God's church, missions and adoption. I wanna see followers of Jesus leave a lasting mark on the culture we live in. 
