Rejoice in Him

Claire, Elisabeth, Ginger, Julie, and Rick share thoughts from the heart to the heart

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Discipleship

Do you know that you don’t know?

This past week a team from LifePark traveled to a Church Planting workshop sponsored by The Cypress Project.  It was a great opportunity to partner together with other churches to see how we could mobilize transformed people into a lost… Continue Reading →

Discipleshift

DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples by Jim Putman, Bobby Harrington and Robert Coleman is an excellent resource for any church that is serious about fulfilling the great commission.  The authors are experienced disciple… Continue Reading →

2013 Regroup Conference

This past week a team of five from The Church at LifePark attended the ReGroup Conference at the Buckhead Church in Atlanta.  The Conference was inspirational with plenty of energy and great times of worship.  The teaching sessions were filled… Continue Reading →

Beach Baptism!

This past Sunday First Baptist Church of Mt. Pleasant and The Church at LifePark came together and baptized over 70 people in the Atlantic Ocean at the Isle of Palms.  It was a fantastic celebration as people displayed their faith… Continue Reading →

Are You Making Disciples?

Jesus has given us a great commission, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you;… Continue Reading →

Where is Our Moral Compass?

As you take a cursory look at the news you see the headlines filled with stories of lies and deception and I’m not even referring to Congress.  For years Lance Armstrong told us he didn’t do drugs.  When he realized… Continue Reading →

What Does God Want?

As you consider that question you may think “Since He is God there is nothing He needs.”  That is true, but is there anything God wants?  There is a common theme throughout the Bible, from Genesis to maps that reveals what God… Continue Reading →

Maximizing your Kairos Moment

At the 3dm Conference this week we discussed how God desires to get our attention in a variety of ways.  A Kairos moment is the realization of an opportunity before us.  It comes from the Greek word καιρός which may… Continue Reading →

3dm Discipleship and Mission Conference

Jeanne and I are attending the 3dm Discipleship and Mission Conference at Pawley’s Island.  3dm trains churches and Christian leaders how to do discipleship and mission in an increasingly post-Christian world.   The movement started approximately thirty years ago in England… Continue Reading →

A FRESH RESOLVE AND A PROVEN STRATEGY

We’ve passed a new milestone this week!  According to the United Nations we now have 7 billion people on planet earth.  A billion is a huge number, it’s not just a little more than a million, consider the following  comparison… Continue Reading →

RESTORING A PERSON – PART 3

In Mark 1:40-45 we see that Jesus can bring restoration to one who comes to Him in faith.  A leper came to Jesus believing that He could heal him and Jesus graciously reached out and touched him and we read,… Continue Reading →

RESTORING A PERSON – PART 2

Part 1 of this series looked at the characteristics of a person who receives restoration.  This post will examine the characteristics of the One who brings the restoration.  The leper came to Jesus and said to Him, “If You are… Continue Reading →

RESTORING A PERSON – PART 1

Have you ever felt like an outsider?  The leper in Mark chapter 1 surely felt that way.  Leprosy was a dreaded disease with severe physical effects but the unseen emotional scars were just as deep. Lepers bore not only physical… Continue Reading →

LITTLE DETAILS YIELD BIG RESULTS

I recently received a generous gift card to Ruth’s Chris Steak House.  I figured what better place to take my special girl for Valentine’s Day than to a great steak house for a nice romantic meal.  I was totally impressed… Continue Reading →

CARE TO CONFRONT

This morning as I was reading Paul’s letter to the Galatians I reflected on Paul’s leadership style as recorded in 2:11, "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned."  This is the… Continue Reading →

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