Creative Scribble

22 years ago my mom started going to an awesome, new church in Raleigh. It started in a hotel and then moved to a renovated horse barn. The atmosphere was casual and the music was loud - guitars, drums, and just a couple of singers. No choir? Woah! Hymn… more »

Regardless of what your junk mail folder tells you, size doesn't always matter. In July of 2004 I preached my first ever sermon to a Sunday morning crowd. There were 19 people there that day at Friendship Church, including me and three people in the… more »

At our launch team interest meeting I talked about the problem that stoked my vision for seeing a new church come to Knoxville. That problem is based on 80%. This is the number of unchurched people in our community, the number of 18-22 year olds that le… more »

If influence is a key word, the question must be asked who are we influencing? "Disconnected" is the key word that keeps surfacing as the answer to that question. Notice this isn't just the catch all term "the lost." That generally refers to people w… more »

Over the past couple of weeks I've had the chance to "cast the vision" of OneLife Church to two potential worship leaders, two churches, a missions group, and the invisible man in the shower that gets to hear all of my crazy ideas each day. Wait, maybe… more »