I am currently teaching on the ministry of the Holy Spirit at Northstar Church. We are a Spirit filled church and do not try to hide it.  We actively contend for spiritual gifts that will help the hurting people of our community. Each week, people walk through our doors that need healing, direction, deliverance from addictions and the list goes on. We believe gifts like prophesy are crucial for both edification and guidance in the local church. I scratch my head when churches that once valued the ministry of the Holy Spirit and exercised His gifts have now shut Him out of their worship. The very person that directed their steps in the early days, caused them to grow and help so many people has now been benched on the sidelines…

Categories: Church •Church Growth •General •Holy Spirit •Spiritual Formation •Thoughts
Tags: northstar • church • america • life • power • gospel • time • god • jesus • times
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“Then Saul took 3,000 of the best-trained men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats.” 1 Samuel 24:2

There were three things we see in this verse that David encountered as a young leader in his quest to obey God. Rocks, wild goats and a king named Saul. Each has application to the building of a new work for God.

The walls are now up on our new facility at Northstar Church. It won’t be long now before…

Categories: Building •Church •Church Growth •General •Leadership
Tags: northstar • church • grace • building • life • courage • time • others • important • mission
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So, I’m sitting here in my un-tucked dress shirt, sipping a latte, reading “Good to Great” for the 5th time, twittering to all my “peeps” while I write my latest blog…. ugghhhhh…..Lord, please deliver us from “cool.”

Here’s what’s hard though.  Cool is such a desirable commodity is our world.  In fact, many, many of my best friends are cool. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  Cool is the word that never goes out of style.  It is our verbal stamp of approval when we like anything.  “Cool.”  It’s blessing, approval, validation and pure goodness all wrapped up…

Categories: Church •Church Growth •Leadership •Thoughts
Tags: uber • mission • coffee • god • hip • cool • lost
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I don’t know how many of you were told that if you would just come to Jesus… “Everything would be perfect from now on!” Of course that is not true.  As Christians we have challenges and troubles to work our way through like anyone else.  The difference is the way that way determine to get through.  Reading through Proverbs yesterday, I was struck again by this particular verse…

Categories: General •Spiritual Formation •Thoughts
Tags: lives • storms • times • jesus • safe • difficult
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Well, it’s time once again to lay down the “Friday 5.”  This is a short and to the point collection of observations I have about life, the church and people. This coming weekend, I am going to be sharing some of God’s thoughts on taking care of our body. This body that we have is much like…

Categories: General •Health •Thoughts
Tags: friday • observations • heath • body • shape • lifestyle • temple
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A medical school once told this story. “I was finishing up my classwork in med school.  One day the prof threw us a pop quiz.  I was a good student and kept up with my studies.  I breezed through the questions until I came to the last one.  It asked, “What’s the name of the woman who cleans our classrooms and bathrooms in the medical school?”

Categories: General •Spiritual Formation •Thoughts
Tags: time • important • others • slow down • people
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Wow… what an amazing Easter weekend. We saw so many new faces at Northstar and I might add, we also saw some friendly faces return that we haven’t seen in some time.  I love it when lost sheep come home! I’m thinking specifically about a older man that I spent a lot of time with early on in our church plant.  He had been in and out of the hospital and was going through some very difficult…

Categories: Church •Church Growth •General •News
Tags: church • easter • next step • gospel
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