Micah 6:8

So its mock draft season for the NFL and I wanted to have a little fun so I am doing a Bible Character mock draft! Fun? Sure. Sacrilege? Maybe. My buddy Evan Duncan and I did this draft together and we included only characters that are fully human and not divine. Hope you enjoy! Pick 1 (Evan): Mary - Mother of our Lord. She was an activist and revolutionary. Knew her scripture and trusted God - even when it meant virgin birth, being a social outcast, and watching Jesus die. Pick 2 (David): Moses - led God's people out of slavery, sent the plagues, cool staff. Got to hang out with God and was given the law. Pretty great all around leader, versatile. Pick 3 (Evan): Paul. Early career character issues but turned it around to be the greatest missionary of all time. Opened the door for all to enter. Real student of the game. Pick 4  (David): Abraham - Father of nations, faithful. Has some character issues but showed strength overcoming them. Known worldwide for his ...

One of the exciting events that I inherited at Rockbridge Church is Be The Church Sunday. For outreach and mission we shut down the campus doors and go be the church in the community. What a great and wonderful idea! We served all over Cedar Park and Leander and Austin: filling homeless bags, repairing fences, and other work projects. It was a great weekend of work and thank you to everyone who helped plan and lead these projects. Check out some pics from the weekend:

Today we begin a 21-day challenge to grow in our faith at Rockbridge Church. I hope if you have not already signed up that you will join us tonight at 630pm for our first session! John Wesley, an Anglican priest, was the founder of the Methodist movement and he taught the church to consider 21 question to make sure they were focused on God and God's call on their life. This week we are discussing an upward focus on God in our lives. Here are the questions we will be looking at tonight: 1. Is Jesus real to me? 2. Am I enjoying prayer? 3. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience uneasy? 4. Did the Bible live in me today? 5. Did I disobey God in anything? 6. Do I pray about the money I spend? 7. Do I give time for the Bible to speak to me every day? In John chapter 15, Jesus tells his disciples, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper...Remain in me, and I will remain in you...If you remain in me and I in you, then you will produce...

We had a fantastic day of worship and connection with different mission organizations! Thank you for pledging to pray, give and go! Our partners stepped up and committed $12,695 to be given to mission organizations plus a deep commitment to prayer and action. If you have not made a faith giving pledge, you can do so here . I had a partner ask me after worship, what we are going to do now, after this big mission launch. The goal is two-fold: 1. We want you, our people to get out and serve in missions. Hopefully, you signed up to volunteer with one of the wonderful organizations that we had at our event. Soon we will have a place on our web page and on our Mission Cross (by the donuts) where you can sign up with great organizations. If you have an organization that you would like the church to partner with, then please email mission@rockbridgelife.com and tell us about that organization! 2. We also want to use the funds that you give in the best way possible. Rockbridge will s...

On Sunday at worship with Rockbridge Church during our Mission Celebration, we are going to ask partners and regular attendees to commit to a faith promise giving for missions. We believe that we are called to the mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world, and this faith promise is one part of how we do that! The fact is that there are amazing mission organizations that are greatly impacting the world that we want to partner with. We will select faith-based organizations that will use nearly all of your gift to go directly to serving a need by a person locally, regionally, or internationally. These organizations are ones that are committed to taking care of both the physical and spiritual needs of a person. A faith promise is a financial commitment to missions based upon the conviction that God wants to give that amount to missions; an amount not necessarily dependent upon known resources. This is about trusting God to give through you! A fai...

I am very excited that we are hosting a Mission Celebration on March 18th this year at Rockbridge. Serving in the community has always been a passion of mine! There is a reason that Micah 6:8 is my theme passage! God requires us to act justly, to love mercy and walk humbly with our God. That means to me, at least in part, that we are called to serve our communities and that bringing God's kingdom means the poor, the oppressed, the suffering, and the hurting in our world are priorities for the church to help. So on March 18: We are going to have local, regional, and international mission organizations here at Rockbridge so that you can see where you are called to serve! My goal and vision for missions at the church is for everyone to participate in some way serving outside the walls of the congregation. There should be something for everyone. We are looking at being missional, with our hope to be part of God's healing mercy both spiritually and physically. Ephesians 2:10 te...

Confession time: I didn't post last week on Chapters 16-20 because I ran out of time. So I want to apologize and I hope you will forgive me. I also hope that reading through Luke has been a blessing to you, as it has to me. So, without further ado, here are my thoughts on Luke 21-25. A Poor Widow's Offering and the Temple's Fate Luke 21:1-28 We often hear about the widows offering in stewardship sermons, but there is another side to this other than her incredible generosity. A woman gives to the temple but yet there is more going on here than at first glance. This is where our chapter and verse systems actually hamper our understanding. In the previous chapter, during the same conversation, Jesus talks about legal experts who cheat widows out of their homes and then we have the story about a widow giving everything to the temple. Part of the point is that the whole system is flawed and rather than drawing people to God it is being used to exploit others. Then Jesus beg...