Why Doctrine Matters… This post is a direct response to a quote that seems to be making its way around the internet by a famous charismatic pastor out of Redding, California named Bill Johnson. Bill Johnson is the lead pastor of Bethel Church and also involved in Bethel Supernatural...

What Lady Gaga and Jesus Have In Common Yes, Lady Gaga and Jesus in the same blog post. No, your computer screen is not playing tricks on you nor am I writing this article from a carnal perspective. I believe that in the midst of a culture that tries all I can to deviate away from God, He...

Lessons Learned From Church Planting (Part 2) So I took a few weeks off from blogging, but I wanted to continue the second part of the previous post on lessons I learned from church planting. Missionary work, from my perspective, is probably the single most difficult job on the face of the...

Judson University Partners With Freemasons Today was a “What Dee Heck” moment. I open up my Facebook for my daily dose of status updates, random scripture postings and funny photos and I notice a small little article on my Alma Mater’s (Judson University) page “Judson...

4 Lessons I Learned From Church Planting I’m no church planting expert. Far from it, but for the past two years my wife and I have been on a journey of gigantic, spiritual proportions. In 2009 we set out from our home church on a prompting from the Holy Spirit. Being in prophetic...

What Season of Church Are You In? This is more of a post for pastors, church planters or itinerant ministries. Yet, it still could apply to us as individuals. With the seasons changing, God gives us a visual picture about change. Unless you live in tropical south or another part of the...

Revival, Lakeland and Other Junk…. Recently I was just invited to a worship meeting that was being lead by a well known worship leader from the infamous Lakeland Revival. Once again this stirred up something in my spirit on the topic of revival and had me questioning, once again,...

True Spirituality I was pondering this week what it really means to be a spiritual person. Spirituality is something long attempted to achieve through out history. In ancient past, in order to be a spiritual person, an individual had to go through religious ritual or seek out the mysterious...