Today’s post looks back at the year 2011 here at Nativity, an amazing year of grace and favor from God. Here are my top ten favorite things (in no particular order). 1. “Catholic Atheist” My favorite message series of the year was, far and away, “Catholic Atheist.” Inspired by Pastor Craig Grochel’s book, “Christian Atheist” […]
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He blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased. Psalm 107 We make no apologies, numbers are important to us. Every number is a person, a life, a soul. So we keep count. That’s what God wants; in fact a whole book of the Bible is called “Numbers” and guess what it’s about…counting the people (as […]
There is no doubt about it. Our Christmas services are my favorite of the whole year and this year is no different. I’m so looking forward to celebrating this extraordinary evening with all of you. I’m also incredibly thankful to the hundreds of volunteers who sacrificially serve and even take vacation time in an effort […]
This week our staff was discussing the difficulty of keeping the focus of Christmas on Christ. Brian Crook, our missions director, was remembering a couple of Christmases ago his 7 year old cousin creating a scene because he didn’t get the gift he wanted. His mother tried to console him with pious platitude about the […]
Over the last couple of years, if you’ve been with us, you know that we’ve tried to do Christmas a little differently as a church family. If you’re new here, let me give you some background: the last two years we sponsored a program in which we encouraged people to spend at least a little […]
Friday we will be closing registration for our first ever conference: MATTER. If you want to attend you need to register this week. Click here to do it now. MATTER will be held on Saturday, November 5. We’ll be taking a closer look at who we are, what we do and, more importantly, why we […]
This month we’re launching one of the major message series of the year. And it’s all about the propensity of ours to trade down when it comes to what really matters in life. We’re calling the series “counterfeit gods” because we’re focusing on those things we put in the place where the living God is […]
Matter has mass and occupies volume. We are calling our new blog “Matter” because we want to promote the impact and the contribution, the mass and the volume, that our local parish church can and must have in the community. Matter is also the name of our upcoming conference. Designed and presented for our own […]
Welcome to my new blog, which we’re launching to accompany some important news. We promised one announcement this evening, but actually, there are two. First, the news we are most happy about: our book is finished. Both Tom, my associate, and I have been discussing a book for years, mostly as a fantasy. More recently […]
If you were with us this past weekend, you know it was pretty special. Here are (just some) of the highlights: 1. Ministry Leaders worshiping together on Friday evening. 2. The band on Friday evening (which is also our new band for the Sunday evening Mass) and their amazing music. 3. The second week of […]
