Author: Greg Stevens

 We live in a world today where we constantly question our spiritual beliefs and motives. More and more we wonder who Christ is, and what He would do if he was in our shoes. We define and redefine charity in the most personal terms. In our very core we struggle with if we are doing […]

I live a broken life. I am not perfect. I am not the ideal Christian. I always thought that the person giving the sermon on a Sunday morning was just the opposite, perfect in all their Christian ways. They always talked about us lay people being “sinful” or told a traumatic story about their past, […]

This week we’re talking about the Supernatural.  A few years ago I really got into divine healing. There was a huge revial (see the third video below) in Lakeland where “healing broke out” because of “The Spirit.” It was…um…an interesting time in my life. I’ve posted three videos below with some of things I used […]

This Wednesday night we’ll be looking at the Bible again. I think it will be helpful to continue this conversation as there is so much to be said on the way we read the text. I’m going to welcome you into my brainiac and let you read my notes, sorry it’s nothing fancy but its got […]

In preperation for July 4th, I want to remind everyone that freedom isn’t free, or at least the freedom we’ve come to know. Many years ago when this fine country was founded, women, men and children fled their homes boarded ship and sailed to occupy what we now call North America. In middle school history […]

My mom is an interesting lady. She hates Christmas but still asks for an Elvis calender every year. She reads 3 books every week and has done so since I can remember. She can’t cook and loves TV dinners. She watches more Fox News than Mitt Romney and stands for conservative Christian politics but wouldn’t […]

Galatians 1:13-24 is this week’s text, Paul writes of his transformation. In his faithful response to the Divine call he has been transformed, creatively resurrected into newness of life.  As I’ve tossed around ideas about salvation, redemption and transformation I keep coming back to the “Romans Road.” It was the plan to salvation we used when […]

I remember lying there, dead, with blood oozing from the gash stretched across my forehead. The steam from the engine rose into the tree that split the truck in two. I sat there lifeless, trying not to blink, smile or show the rising of my chest with every breath I took. I wanted it to […]

The early Christian experience of God’s love for the world in Christ is presented with metaphors that awaken the reader to the Holy Spirit, these metaphors have been describe in the Pentecost event of Acts 2. This is the text we’ll dig into this Sunday to finalize our series on Missio’s communal identity. God is […]

Tony Jones – author, blogger, and church guru – has been a formative voice in the emergent church conversation for many years now. In 2009 he wrote a book, The New Christians, that had 20 dispatches emergent churches commonly have from their previous faith communities.  As we have been discussing the identity of Missio Dei, I thought […]