Today we are continuing our conversation through Judges. The heart, the focus of this book is that something needs to change. The same cycle happens over and over and over again: The point of the book is not to make people feel bad for failing, or to say that failure is the end of all hope....

Today we are continuing our conversation through the book of Judges. Last week we started off the conversation by giving a little background into the book and talking about the repeated pattern or cycle that happens throughout the book: The Israelites have crossed into the promised land. They...

Today we are starting a new series walking through the book of Judges.cycle What do you think of when you think of judges? Judges is the 7th book in the Old Testament. It has 21 chapters and takes less than 2 hours to read. The foundation that we will be revisiting continually through this...

This summer I had an opportunity of a lifetime. We purchased a new van and put 18,000 miles on it. Kelsey, our dog Sutter, and I drove a lot. We visited 17 states. We saw amazing things (and some disgusting things). We made memories that will last us forever. iden I played a lot of disc golf...

Today we are going to jump right into a dialogue question. I am going to give you ten different if-then statements. Don’t try to do them all with the people at your table, but grab one, process it–have some fun with it–and share your THEN. What would be your then? If you were one foot taller,...

Rich: We have talked about negative trends and positive trends this weekend, and this morning we will be talking about taking control of what is trending in your life. Think about this for a second: are you a plan person or someone who just goes with the flow? When it comes to days off and...

Today we are starting a new series on Colossians, a letter written by Paul to the church at Colosse. Paul started many churches on his missionary journeys, but he probably didn’t visit Colosse or personally start the church there. Instead, it was likely established during Paul’s third...

Let me start with a question: What makes a week stand out as being exceptional (unusually good) to you? This is what we call a “flip-flop” week. We usually do team preparation–not so that we all say the same thing, but so that what we say is better. Flip-flop weeks, on the other hand, are...