One of the limitations of being in a Sunday setting where someone is teaching hundreds of people at once is it’s easy to think the speaker is talking to someone else.  As I teach about the Ekklesia–the ones called out to follow Jesus–I want you to personally ask him, “What does it mean for me to be called out?”          When each of us…

      On May 20th, we’re having another Baptism Celebration. These are some of my favorite gatherings. If you haven’t been to one recently, get ready — they are high energy and lots of fun! And why shouldn’t they be? Remember, Jesus is like a shepherd who, at the end of the day, finds he only had 99 of his 100 sheep and even though it’s…

        What does a life “called out” look like? God has the prophet Micah describe what he wants from us. He begins by asking a rhetorical question:          With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten…

      Pastors are notorious for trying to measure the health of the church they lead using numbers….attendance…giving…square footage. (True confession: I’ve certainly fallen into this more than once myself.) Numbers aren’t bad-not even the ones I just mentioned-some numbers matter more than others. Here’s a number that I think matters…

   We always have trouble estimating how many people are going to attend each of our three Sunday services. Our main concern is that we want our guests to have a great experience. To that end I want to ask you, as part of Team CrossBridge, to be willing to help in a couple of specific ways… Show up a little early to the service you’re attending. Remember, the…

     We’re going to have 2,000 people be with us on Easter, many of whom may be experiencing the body of Christ for the only time this year. We want all these people to feel the love they’ll hearus talking about. I’m hoping you’ll be part of Team CrossBridge to help make this happen. Here are the top 5 things we need to show love… Park as far…

     Do you remember that last week I told you that 100 CrossBridgers were going out in two different teams? One to Reynosa and one to the Southside of San Antonio. I had asked you to join me in covering these teams in prayer because it’s not just in the “going” that God works, but also in the “praying.” Both teams are back now and…

     This weekend, we’re sending out 100 people in two teams to bring the love of Jesus to people. One team heads to Reynosa to build two homes and be servants of the people living in a colonia on the banks of the Rio Grande, just inside the Mexican border. Another team, called Kindle, heads to a Southside trailer park to host a sports camp and a Back Yard Bible…

     The cool thing about the book of Acts is that God’s heart is still burning for the nations with the same intensity as it was in the first century. With the coming of the Holy Spirit, the kingdom of God began its unstoppable advance with simple but powerful formula: The Holy Spirit comes, the Gospel is shared, people are saved from the judgement of God against…