This morning was Vision Sunday at West Ridge Church. This is one of my favorite Sundays in the year, because we get to celebrate what happened in the last year and I get to talk to the church about where we believe God is leading us in the new year. The following is a brief [...]

I don’t know if you’ve ever had one of those weeks before where you look and say, “how in the world did I make it through all of that?” …WELL….I just had one of those weeks. • Last Saturday, I had my friend Daniel Henderson in from Strategic Renewal to do several talks on prayer [...]

I’m in Cumming, GA right now speaking at the Churchplanters.com at Mountain Lake Church. My friend, Shawn Lovejoy is the pastor at MLC and the co-founder of Churchplanter.com. I’m speaking to church planters and pastors about the checkpoints that you need to have in your life to make it for the long haul in ministry. [...]

Weekend Wrapup • Great morning at West Ridge! Paul Richardson spoke and did a really good job. I’m really proud of how he is developing as a speaker, a leader, and as a man. • We had 175 plus kids on stage leading us in 3 Christmas carols yesterday morning. They did a great job! [...]

Recently, while serving on a church planting forum at a conference in Virginia, I was asked by the moderator of the forum a question, “Since you pastor a large, growing church with plenty of financial needs, why would you send money and people out of your church to plant new churches?” My answer was simple: [...]

I’m in Lynchburg, VA for a few days with our management staff. Tomorrow morning I speak in Ministry Chapel at Liberty University to over 700 ministry students. Please pray that God would give me words that would truly inspire these students to believe that God wants to use them to do amazing things for the [...]

I’m in Lynchburg, VA for the next few days with some of my staff. We are meeting tomorrow with some of church planting staff at Liberty University and some of the pastors from Thomas Road Baptist Church to talk about formalizing a partnership for West Ridge and some of our ATL church plants to become [...]

Tomorrow is Anniversary Sunday at West Ridge. We will be celebrating 11 years of being a church. Unbelievable! I cannot believe how quickly time has flown by. Over the last 11 years we have typically used Anniversary Sunday to celebrate the past and to cast vision for the future. Tomorrow is going to be a [...]