Last night, I had the privilege of joining my church family in honoring Tom Ascol on his 25th anniversary as pastor of Grace Baptist Church. The evening was spent with members sharing stories and testimonies of how God has impacted their lives through Pastor Tom, and I began it with a few words about the [...]
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Honoring a Faithful Shepherd
June 2, 2011Life Offline
October 26, 2010For the past 2.5 years, I have been serving as a pastor of Grace Baptist Church. I have not blogged much about my church or my role as a pastor (other than the kingly administration stuff). It has been an incredible journey so far, and I am loving being a church that is “reformed and [...]
We Have Not Forgotten
September 14, 2010By the time you read this, I will be en route to Haiti for the rest of the week. How all this came about is rather remarkable. Like many of you, we felt an urgent need to minister in Haiti after the earthquake, especially since is located in our backyard (globally). We had already planned [...]
Parking the Great Commission
July 7, 2009Sunday night, we parked the Great Commission. It’s fourth of July weekend, lots of people traveling out of town on vacation, and with one of the biggest holidays of the year, the reasonable thing to do would be to alter the Sunday format to accommodate according to lowered expectations. Not exactly. About a month ago, [...]
Where Extraordinary Grace and Celestial Joy Meet
June 28, 2009Tonight, I participated in something that I have never been a part of in the 22 years that I have known Jesus Christ. The reason for this is twofold: I have never been in a church before that took seriously the biblical practice of church discipline, and I have never been in a church where [...]
5 P’s
April 16, 2009Yesterday, I spent about an hour with Tom Ascol talking about the past ten months since I came on staff at Grace Baptist as an Associate Pastor. At various points during this time, I intended to post some thoughts and reflections on things I’ve learned, challenges I’ve faced, and joys I’ve experienced transitioning from a [...]
On Being Gospel-Saturated
March 22, 2009For the past couple of weeks, we have been discussing at Grace the third mark of a healthy church member, namely being gospel-saturated. During this time, I have posted the following blogposts on the subject that I thought I’d pass along here. In the near future, I hope to begin a series on ths sufficiency [...]
Biblical Theology for Church Members
March 12, 2009For the past couple of weeks, I have been teaching through What Is a Healthy Church Member? by Thabiti Anyabwile, and last week we broke down the second mark – a biblical theologian. One of things I have been doing on our church blog is to provide some resources on the various issues or doctrines [...]
New Website for Grace Baptist Church
November 24, 2008This week, we are announcing the launch of our church’s new website–a project that has been in the works for several months. There are several things I sought to have in the design and template, including a WordPress integrated blog for the church, new podcast, embedded live-streaming, and a mullet-strategy design (business up front, party [...]
Moving In, Praying On
July 31, 2008I want to first apologize for not having provided any updates in recent days. Since my last blogpost almost two weeks ago, I have spent less time on the computer and internet since I have been blogging three years ago (for good reason, of course). If you have not been made aware, Donna Ascol (Tom’s [...]
And now for a personal update
October 6, 20112011 has been one of the most eventful years of my life. As someone who likes to plan and prepare things, I thought I had a good beat on where the Lord was leading me at the beginning of the year. And yet I can say that the majority of my days this year have [...]
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