It's a pretty radical thing when you stop talking about reading the Bible and learning the Bible and start talking about doing the Bible.
Pastor Francis Chan asks what it would be like if when he told his daughter to go clean her room, she treated it the way Christians treat Jesus' commands. Can you imagine her coming back to her father and saying to him, "You remember what you told me to do? I memorized it. I can even say it in Greek." But although she has memorized it...
"Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn." ~Romans 12:15
I still vividly remember the day I discovered I was miscarrying our first child. Although I was fortunate enough to conceive again within a year, and hold that healthy baby safely delivered in my arms, the unspeakable joy of a dream fulfilled did not cancel out the grief of our prior loss. For years afterwards...
When a kid jumps in the pool for the first time, her heart wonders if there will be someone to help if she need it. When you start a church for the first time, your heart is every bit as anxious.
It’s a small taste of the miraculous when you see the flood of willing friends who take on the work of children’s ministry, accounting, hospitality, check-in, room set-up, publicity, and everything else that needs doing, and they do it not for a salary, but for...
It’s just a gym on a normal Sunday morning. Floor seats or Bleacher benches. The air is bursting with excitement. An anticipation coupled with a yearning for something different. I sat with my family on the bleachers. Our first church service in a Glendora middle school gym.
As the gathering was about to start, an influx of last-minute arrivals showed up. They were people who were...
At the end of July 2016, a couple friends invited Jim to speak at a "Bible study" that unintentionally exploded into a small church. It was that day that it became clear God wanted to do something new--something exciting, scary and definitely messy. But for those of us there, we knew we had to answer the call, because it was a call to love everyone.
That morning in the park, Jim outlined a vision of three things we were called to do in learning to love everyone we could: be accepting, be authentic, and be transformed.
