What a great time 18 of our Surge Teens had Sunday night, August 22nd throwing paint at each other!  It was a great time of pizza, fellowship and goofiness with our sister congregations Westlink and Eastpoint.  Thank you to Westlink for hosting this event and to Linda Griekspoor and Nancy Peters for helping drive!  I [...]

As I pondered what was explained to me as the 4 most prominent ways that we deal with out sin (Compare, Hide, Rationalize and Deny), I examined my own sin and thought about which one is my go to and I realized something.  Its way too easy!  All of these “outs” that Satan provides us [...]

Sadly, if you were to ask random people on the street to finish  this statement you might be offended by the way they chose to say .  In fact, there are people out there who may use some questionable language to describe what “church is like”.  Why is that?  Why do people have such a [...]

It would be near impossible to have to explain an emotion such as Love or Happiness to someone that had never experienced them on their own.  Experience is what allows us to be aware of the things that we cannot explain.  There is no way to count all the words in the English Language, but [...]

It is completely absurd to refer to a human being as pure.  We just don’t have to capability to be “pure”.  Only one man who has ever been on this earth was “pure”.  Christ set out a plan for us.  His plan for us is this…..be like me.  How easy is that?  Well, it is [...]

Hey guys!  I am sorry for getting this post up so late in the week.  Here are some ideas that I would like us to discuss from the video on Sunday. How do you best identitfy with God? What do you see when you see him? Does your idea of a Father help or hinder [...]

I don’t know about you  guys but yesterday’s video forced me to wonder about some things.  I want to hear what you guys thought of the video, and i would love to hear some things that the video made you wonder about or want to change about your life. What in your world is polluting [...]

As the great Scholar Billy Madison once sang, “Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool! I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don’t get in a fight! Ohhhh, back to school! Back to school! Back to school! Well, here goes nothing!” [...]

In mid-June, a number of high schoolers from my youth group at RiverWalk Church of Christ traveled to Fort Worth, Texas for a mission trip. We weren’t really sure what we were going to do or what would be expected of us. We just knew that we wanted to make a difference and have some [...]

Last night I was part of a worship experience that was basically a larger more interactive version of a concert of prayer that i put on for the Surge teens.  We focused on the forgotten people of the world.  As I was setting up for the worship and for the concert of prayer it struck [...]