Borrowing from Robert McKee, Donald Miller defines a story as "a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it." Sit with that definition for a while and it will bring into focus every story you have ever heard, told, read, watched or dreamed. The...
God desires to be known by all humans. If God didn’t take the initiative to reveal himself to us, we couldn’t really know anything about God. Sure we could speculate based on creation that he is powerful and likes beauty. But we could just as easily...
There is a God who speaks, has spoken, and is still speaking. He speaks through creation. He spoke in history. And he continues to speak through his Spirit to his children. But are you hearing him? How can you hear what God is saying? What is...
Cultivating spiritually doesn’t happen overnight. People grow and change over time. That’s why Jesus told so many stories that revolved around farming. Farming is a slow, organic process. The farmer sows the seed like God speaks to us. Just as the condition of the soil determines...
Come to our Grand Opening! We opened the doors of our new church home just in time for Easter. But we have not had an official “Grand Opening” yet. Now it’s time! We have been doing our grand opening series “This Is Us” to orient all our...
Sunday I had a new guy at church tell me he had been waiting to hear the message I preached his whole life. He said it was not overstating it to say it was the hope of the world. That was encouraging. Monday I got an...
This is an exciting new season for Mountain View Church! It took a long time to get here. Our vision to be “home for the wanderer, rest for the weary” was ironically realized for us as we ended our wandering and got to catch our...
If you have followed my teaching for any length of time, you know I believe that when a person becomes a Christian, they are no longer a sinner. Their old self died with Jesus and they have been reborn just as surely as Jesus has...
Sin is literally "failing" or "missing" the target. We all fall short of bearing the image of God perfectly. It is an opportunity to recalibrate and try again. A child learning to walk falls and gets back up and eventually falls less. A good parent...
What’s Wrong? Everyone knows the world is not as it should be. We all know right from wrong on some level, at least when someone else does wrong to us. But what is the source of the mess? How do we fix what’s wrong with our...
