I spent several days with Kieran in Washington DC this week. Â As an 8th Grade Graduation gift, we take our kids to DC to see the capitol. Â My sister Lexie lives with her family in Alexandria, VA (suburb of DC) and we love a chance to visit them, and it’s a free place to stay…a …
Saturday’s service was a blast! Â Our Student Ministries took over the service with the High School worship band leading worship and Jared Riley, our High School Pastor, speaking. Â Luis Acosta has been leading our High School worship for the past 6 months, and he has worked very hard to build a team of students who …
Our staff was asked to read this book as a topic for discussion about the health and growth of our church. Â Not the most current book we could read on this topic, as this book was written in 1996. Â I felt the authors ended up making a couple decent observations, but the journey to get …
After a week off for vacation, the weekend kicked off early on Saturday with a Worship Music Tech Conference at Calvary Community Church here in Phoenix.  Several of our tech team members were able to be there for the Friday sessions.  There was some really informative stuff for us there, and it was cool because this was …
I was pre-warned. Â This book is controversial, thought-provoking, frustrating, interesting, and challenging. I grew up in the contemporary American church, immersed in cultural Christianity. Â I won’t lie, I’ve had times that I was pretty much done with church…not my faith…but done with the whole church thing. Â My experience with and in church has run the …