Loving your community

This week our church (Oak Park Baptist in Jeffersonville, IN) hosted a group of 65 students and adults from Westwood Baptist in Alabaster, AL.  Throughout their week here they’re canvassing 4,000+ homes, doing some projects for the local high school and planting 65 trees and a 150 shrubs throughout an intersection that has been a bit…

Worship Pastor thoughts…

This post will simply serve as a cataloguing of some thoughts I’ve been thinking about for the last several weeks concerning the role and responsibility of a Worship Pastor.  Oak Park Baptist, the church where I have the privilege of pastoring, has just begun a search for a Worship Pastor.  In preparation for the process,…

9Marks Weekender: my thoughts and takeaways

This past week I had the privilege of attending a 9Marks Weekender in Washington D.C. at Capital Hill Baptist Church.  In recent months, I’ve been exposed to the plethora of biblical resources they have to assist and inform pastors and churches of what the Bible teaches concerning what a healthy church looks like.  And as I’ve said time…

“Seven sure-fire ways to blow up a church”…

These seven points were articulated by Dr. Lawless, Dean of The Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  The April 12 edition of the Towers at Southern was devoted to discussing issues that Pastors should or should not do in order to not blow up a church.  I found the edition…