TweetWe ended New Life’s Florida Spring Break trip (themed “The War Within”) with a wrap-up on Romans 12. As we spent the whole week talking about the internal struggle between the flesh and Spirit (see my last post),I tried to pull some key truths from Romans 12 about the ongoing spiritual war that surrounds us…illustrating [...]
TweetI gave my first full-length teaching to students on the Florida Spring Break trip. The last post was meant to end with a bit of a cliffhanger, and that’s what I wanted for the students as well. We walked through Romans 6, 7, 8 and 12 separately, and I wanted to paint a vision for [...]
TweetThis past Sunday, I was invited to preach at First United Methodist Church of Cocoa, FL while on New Life’s Florida spring break trip. This was the first time I’ve ever preached at a church service, and it definitely had its challenges (I got into Florida really late the Saturday night and had to sleep [...]
TweetLast week at our Southside New Life Team meeting, I led our students through an exercise I deemed “Uncovering the Real You.” By no means did I expect students to have fully “uncovered the real them” by the end, but I wanted to help lay a groundwork for how they might go about internalizing Ephesians [...]
TweetThe Passion Conferences crew is one of the Church’s most prominent faces to the college demographic globally. I wanted your thoughts about whether you think their newest video effectively communicates the Gospel to that generation. I specifically would love to hear from those of you who don’t identify as Christian. Does this connect with you? [...]
TweetI recently had my first-ever podcast interview. It was a lot of fun to sit down and have a conversation with my friend, Pastor Nar, and now to let you all in on it. I met Pastor Nar on twitter, because he was part of a conversation that seemed interesting to me. This group was calling [...]
TweetSince I’m not yet a pastor (or even close to being one, really), I haven’t ever truly preached in a church. But this summer I was allowed to do a training session at New Life on how to lead a dynamic small group meeting. It was the first time I ever got to teach from a [...]