the G sides

We have 4 Confabs a year for our Life Group Leaders. “Confab” is short for “confabulation.” So as leaders we set aside 4 nights a year to eat and connect with each other for encouragement, sharpening, and to hear life-change stories from other Life Groups. Last Thursday night was our last one […]

Yesterday we had our first Downtown Lunch Club meeting at Pizza Colore Express.
DDLC is a bunch of guys that go to Pinecrest but work in downtown. It came about almost by accident. I was eating lunch with Danny one day and I mentioned that Steve and Chip worked nearby. Danny […]

Yesterday was AWESOME. James Caldwell and I took off at 5.30 am. We dropped Ray off at DIA then headed to Copper Mountain.
[That’s in the morning for all my youth pastor comrades. I know many of you will find this shocking but people are actually awake at this hour and able to […]

I taped the Crash session this week but I don’t think I’m going to “publish” it. There is some really neat sharing going on in there and to make it public almost seems to violate that sacred space and time.
So - not going to publish the audio. What I may do is take […]

By now, you’ve heard about Ted Haggard and the “alleged” homosexual encounter with a male escort.
This morning at New Life Church a letter from Ted Haggard was read to the congregation - around 14,000 strong.
Matt D. and I were driving back from Salina, Kansas last night listening to talk radio about it. You can […]

Gotta call a couple of days ago - a good friend (Rich) was coming in for one day to close a business deal, would have I time to hang afterwards?
Does a bear…..live in the woods?
So while I’m waiting on Rich to call me, another friend calls me and says - hey, can you do you […]

We’ve got an offer on our house, we made one on a house here. Both are accepted and signed. Scheduled the movers.
Now the slow, painful wait to closing day - Nov 17th for the house on Old Spanish Trail.
On top of all of that trying to build a youth team.
The danger […]

I’ve now preached my last sermon at Grace and locked up after church my last time. (Which for all the Grace readers - we use a lot of lights on Sunday morning. Just an observation.) There was a basket of cards and throngs of people who just wanted a hug and some […]

Top 10 Things Students Need to Know Before They Leave High School
1. They are valued.
2. They are loved.
3. They are passionately in love with Jesus.
4. They are the Church.
5. They are to love others.
6. They are to be Prayer Warriors.
7. Practice the Spiritual Disciplines.
8. They know some of the Word. (Not all of it, because […]

I need to put a HUGE warning sign over this next section. While I believe it is important that we as leaders know how to lead a Bible Study and communicate it creatively and effectively, I just as strongly believe that if we led a Bible Study every single week in our LIFE Groups […]