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Church

What A Pastor (And Church Planters) Need

One of the most fun days in my week are Thursday’s—that is the day my assistant schedules a lunch with a church planter or a…
Relationships

Hooters

Got your attention? Good—stay with me… For those who do not attend NewSpring—let me explain what happened this…
Church

Repentance Or Rebellion?

I remember when I was a youth pastor serving at another church and was invited to some people’s house for supper. We had just sat…
Church

Passion Leads To Action!

I am a freak about football. Seriously—you don’t understand…I have to wait two weeks from this Saturday and I am…
Random

Awesome Quotes

I have an old Bible here in my office that I used when we first began NewSpring. It is literally falling apart and is held together by tape…
Random

Sharing The Love…

OK…there’s some awesome stuff in blogging world and I wanted to share it… First of all—this post in reference to…
Church

Tension Is A Good Thing…

From time to time people in our community will say that NewSpring is a “feel good church.” Anyone who would say that obviously…
Personal

Random Thoughts From My Couch

So I am sitting on my couch, getting ready to go to the gym and enjoy my day off. “But wait,” you might say, “its…
Discipleship

Should I Go Into The Ministry?

From time to time I will meet an energetic person who asks me, “Pastor P, I’ve been thinking lately about going into the…
Leadership

Trying Something New

My workouts have been sort of blah lately…I just go, do my thing, and then get on with my day.  Which is not good considering I am a…
Random

I’ve Been Tagged…

So Bob tagged me—here goes…and “The Bible” fits ALMOST every answer…One Book That Changed Your Life: The…
Leadership

Some Really Cool Things Are Taking Place…

So I didn’t sleep that well last night…too excited about all that is going on!  It felt great to be back yesterday—back…