The blessing of Christian community when your car breaks down
Posted January 12th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
So I am sitting here at the intersection of Highway 21 and MM, 10:20 PM on Monday night waiting for Leon Allen. How’s that for an introduction. Would make a good first line of a book, but on this night, I am just waiting in the cold in my Durango which has overheated. I could […]
Posted in All About Life, Missional living
Video by Stephen Lancaster on Living Water International
Posted December 21st, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
As part of our Advent Conspiracy offering, we are going to give money to Living Water International, we showed a video last week featuring Stephen Lancaster from our church as he told the story of his mission trip this past year with this organization. Stephen helped build a well in Honduras.
Posted in Missional living, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Advent Conspiracy, Living Water
Website with gift ideas for giving presence
Posted December 17th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
One of the key thoughts in the Advent Conspiracy emphasis is that we need to re-think some of our gifts. Nothing wrong with Christmas gifts, at all. But the challenge is to give our presence as well, to be relational with our giving. The website rethinkingchristmas.com is an online clearinghouse of ideas for gifts and […]
Posted in All About Life, Missional living, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: Advent Conspiracy, Christmas
Pujols, the MVP, and his “real job”
Posted November 24th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
If you are a fan of baseball and the Cardinals at all, you know by now that Albert Pujols won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League, with a unanimous first place vote by the baseball writers. We celebrate his abilities, and enjoy his natural gifts. But as a follower of Jesus, I […]
Posted in All About Life, Missional living | Tags: Albert Pujols, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Ideas for preparing children for freedom – Join the conversation
Posted September 28th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
In the message yesterday I shared five ideas from our lives that we believe will help prepare kids for the times when they gain freedom. The hope is that they will love Jesus, learn to live under His authority and the authority of God’s Word, and that they will pursue God’s will and His call […]
Posted in Family Life, Missional living, Sermon Thoughts