The Work of Harvesting
Now, as we move forward as a church, I’ve come to realize that it’s very important that we don’t just try to plan out our church in a conceptual, cerebral, manner where we attempt to design a theoretically perfect church.…
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Heart of the Harvester
This is the sermon I preached yesterday (2024-04-28) for Ethos that follows last week’s sermon on the Huge Harvest. Praise the Lord, we are now nine weeks into soft-launching Ethos Communion Church! It is wonderful that we have made it…
Huge Harvest
“Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” Matthew 9:37 Almost twenty years ago, in 2005, I received my call to ministry. I was in India, looking out at a landscape of green…
Ethos Communion Church Vision Matrix
If you didn’t know, baseball is one of my hobbies. To be more specific, developing my son into a baseball player is one of my hobbies. As we are on this journey of him becoming the best hitter and pitcher…
Surprised by Joy
This is the sermon I gave this past Sunday for Ethos Communion Church. It’s a pretty important concept for me, so I’m posting it here. Updates This past week, I went to an EFCA Assessment retreat for church planters. If…
A Vision for Planting
This past Lord’s Day was the soft launch worship service for Ethos Communion Church. We met in my backyard, and there were 22 adults, 3 teenagers, and 6 children present. The service was interrupted briefly by a heavy drizzle which…