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Jim & Melissa are a very cool couple at our church that I’ve had the privilege of getting to know over the past year or so. I wanted to include their story in this Generosity series because, well you’ll see when you read their story. I had a chance to do a little interview with [...]

Continuing with talking about generosity, I’m very excited to take part in this project: 50,000 Shoes. Last week or so Anne Jackson asked us if we wanted to be a part of a “the worlds biggest blogging charity challenge” - I was in.
So here’s the deal.

Today, 300 million people look down as they walk from [...]

This is a new blog series that I’m going to work through. Let me just begin by sharing that over the past year my life as I’ve connected with more an more people outside my little ‘Temecula Circle’ - I’ve become more aware, or more attracted to generosity. I love reading stories about people who [...]

I’ll be writing more about the amazing event from last weekend (over 200 people from LifeChurch showed up to serve our community!). But for now here’s a slideshow of the over 500 photos we took! Thank you to our media team for serving so faithfully!

Today was a special day for our church. We closed the doors and headed out to a local school that gives hopes to troubled teens. I wasn’t really sure what to expect - but today was awesome.

(the view from behind our front door)
Today I’d like to talk about missions in your face. Actually in MY face. I’ve been on too many Mexico missions trips to remember. I’ve co-led a Romania missions trip. My wife Jen went to Fiji on a missions trip. When I was a youth pastor I used to [...]

This is Wade Joy, he’s a worship leader at Elevation Church. I read his blog every so often. Tonight I read it and my heart is hurting & hoping for him and his family at the same time. There’s a pretty amazing opportunity for us to be the church and to join with their family [...]

I got my Tom’s Shoes yesterday and I was stoked! I’m gonna have to get used to them. They’re what I call little shoes. But I love ‘em cuz of what they stand for and I love being a very, very small part of that. Here’s me trying to look cool - I know, I’m [...]

I’ve been checking out Tom’s Shoes for the past year or so, and after hearing that Bobby got a pair, I decided it was about time. So Jen said I could get a pair for Fathers Day (sorry guys, that’s just how it works around here). So I am expecting my pair of Tom’s Shoes [...]