Belong

Every Monday through Friday, my two youngest kids (Dillon and Alyssa) and I load up in the car at 7:15 am and head down the long, dreaded 5 mile road to Cross Bayou Elementary.  In-between our yawns, and staring into space we read a devotional by Rick Warren called, Scriptures from The Purpose Driven Life. [...]

Body of Christ

Last night, I watched our USA mens Nordic Combined mens ski team make history by becoming the first USA team to win the silver.  When interviewed, one of the team members shared that every single move, every strategy makes a difference.  It reminded me of the Body of Christ. (Church). I Corinthians 12:12 “For as [...]

Platform

Myron Rolle was just a young, skinny 13 year old when I first met him.  I remember when we would stop by every Sunday morning and pick he and his brother McKinley, up for church.  On one occasion, Myron was a little upset with me because I was 5 mins late.  Well, this young, skinny [...]

Choosing To Cheat

I knew I would get your attention with that title.  Choosing To Cheat is a book by Andy Stanley that I highly recommend to anyone who is having a hard time finding balance in this crazy journey, we call life.  Andy goes on to share that we all have very busy schedules.  How do we [...]

Dollar Cost Living

Here are some follow up thoughts from last nights part 3: Dollar -Cost Living at WatersEdge Church. Who wants to be average?  Well, apparently, rich people.  Survey after survey reveals that when it comes to generosity, rich people rank equal to, if not below, those with fewer resources.  But as people who have been blessed [...]

Exposed

I want to take a quick break from my thoughts on church and the culture and share something in my blog that has been on my mind for a few days: Could it be that our downturn with the economy is the best thing that has happened for individuals, families, our country – the world? [...]

Common Goal

John Hunter shares, “Cultures are shaped when networks of leaders, representing the different social institutions of a culture, work together towards a common goal:  Again and again we see that the impetus, energy and direction for changing the world were found where cultural, economic and often political resources overlapped; where networks of elites, who generated [...]

Changing the Perception

Let’s look at some examples of some influential leaders: “In the ‘Dark Ages’, after the fall of the Roman Empire, it was the monastic movement in Ireland that reserved the classic works of antiquity into the Middle Ages. Irish monks copied down vast amounts of Western philosophy, poetry, history, and commentary playing a key role [...]

Powerful Influence

When Christians live out what the Bible teaches, we have an influence on our culture.  Rodney Stark, in The Rise of Christianity shares: “Christianity revitalized life in Greco-Roman cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with urgent urban problems.  To cities filled with the homeless and impoverished, Christianity [...]

Cultural Influence

Can the church “influence” the culture of a society?  I want to take some time these next few blogs and explore this idea – and lets see how this goes.  I would love to get some feedback sent to my email address, or through joining our WatersEdge community through facebook: Charles Colson shares, “God cares [...]