Life was difficult this week. I walked into redemption group emotionally drained with all that had been going on with my family, and like I said, just life. Throughout the week I had been pretty honest about what was going on in my world with my city group and other friends, and since most of the others in my redemption group know me well, most of them knew about my week and my present circumstances. Read More…

Check out this post from Bob Roberts Jr.

People sometimes make fun of Dallas-Fort Worth being the buckle on the Bible belt. It isn’t anymore. It’s unbuckled. The stats are in and church attendance is around the 17% mark – in northeast Tarrant county where I live it’s probably more like 9%. We think because we see churches and some of them big that we are churched. We are not. A lot of the shelves (pews) are empty in those stores! The ones that are full are often filled with people looking for a different kind of church – not Jesus! If we were “churched” anywhere near what we were just 35 years ago at a minimum we would have to double the number of churches out here. Read More…