Matthew | December 30, 2010
Last night was a wonderful time for the Castle Rock church of Christ. But the real heroes of the night were the Tri-Lakes Church of Christ. This is a sister congregation down the road, about 30 minutes in the next town a long Interstate 25. Even though the congregation is close, we really do not [...]
Matthew | December 29, 2010
Most ministers work closely with the eldership, and often this is going to be the most important relationships that you are going to have in the congregation. These guys might not be your best friends, but the relationship is probably going to be the most important for the congregation and for your work. So in [...]
Matthew | December 28, 2010
I have really enjoyed Roxburgh’s work in the missional area. His book “The Missional Leaders” was excellent. So when this title came out, I wanted to read it. The first part of the book is mostly about how the former maps of the church and society no longer work in this culture. He mostly deals [...]
Matthew | December 27, 2010
For the two people that read this blog, the break is over. I had my folks in over the holiday’s and took a week’s vacation during this time too. I still preached and taught, and did all the things I needed to do, but really nothing more. So the blog was dropped. I had a [...]
Matthew | December 21, 2010
My prayer is that my children, their children, and generations after that will all be members of the churches of Christ. This might be a strange desire for some in these times. You could see someone that has had generations of church of Christ members in the family, but I am a first generation Christian, [...]
Matthew | December 13, 2010
One of our elders at the Castle Rock congregation directs a singing ministry called SYD which means the Singing Youth of Denver. It is a group of teens from the front range churches of Christ. There are a ton of kids in this group. SYD does some excellent work through this region and all over [...]
Matthew | December 8, 2010
I am excited tonight because I am starting a new class on Spiritual Warfare. It is called Demons, Angels, and Faith. Studying for this class has been fun because of all the stuff I have been learning about it. Really, it seems that we as a body of people have not looked at this much. [...]
Matthew | December 7, 2010
This book was found in an unlikely place. I was traveling back from OK City with the family, and stopped at a gas station. This book was sitting on the magazine rack. I never heard of this book, and it was recently published. It was from a local man from the Colorado Springs area. It [...]
Matthew | December 2, 2010
As a minister or leader in a congregation, probably one of the most important aspects of your functioning is managing your filter system. People who believe that they have no filters are probably the most dangerous people because they are aware of how they are responding to situations. A filter is a attitude, mindset, a [...]
Matthew | December 1, 2010
It is hard having individual insurance. A few years ago, Gabrielle had to go to National Jewish because of her eczema. It was a 10 day program that would teach us how to deal with this problem. But we could not agree to go in because the insurance company Golden Rule would not pay for [...]
