Make plans to attend the Prayer and Strategy Meeting

Prayer and Strategy meeting Thursday, May 31st @ 7pm Everyone is invited to the meeting at the Timmons’ home next Thursday night for a prayer and strategy meeting.  Plus, we have encouraged everyone to pray and fast for the church in three specific ways. Direction for the Church in Kershaw We see people come to [...]

Fasting Challenge

Yesterday, we began a two-part message on fasting.    I call it “We Need Help:  Fast.” Here is a copy of the hand-out asking that people would fast for Team Church. How you begin and conduct your fast will largely determine your success. By following these basic steps to fasting, you will make your time [...]

My 14th Anniversary

14 years ago I married my sweetheart Alison! God has blessed us with one another.

Series Summary…”What you bring to the table”

I believe that the Holy Spirit is leading a movement for the Church to unite over the issue of race.  Several pastors have recently highlighted the fact that Sundays are the most segregated times for the believer.  Several pastors are becoming unsettled about the fact that believers aren’t moving toward unity with other churches. And [...]

Spring-a-thon May 12-13… find out how to serve

***update:  there is a lot going on here so please choose where you’d like to serve.  In other words, you don’t have to do it all.  Thanks***  Go to our facebook page to let us know when you’d like to help:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Church-Lancaster-County/130550805890 Spring-a-thon is coming May 12-13.  It has become a joke that it always [...]

Weekend to Remember is HERE!!!

This is a really big weekend for Team Church…but not for the reasons you normally think.  Much time, money, and a long period of fasting weekly is all about what will be happening in Concord this weekend at the Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference. For months we’ve been offering the couples we know to go [...]

New Series Begins Sunday

A few weeks back a message series idea began to stir in me surrounding racism and the church.  As I studied, I found that throughout the church’s Biblical history the issue is larger than just race…the church is divided over culture, social status, economics, and much more.  In other words, the prejudice of church people [...]

TC welcomes Byron Sellers

This weekend at Team Church (April 22nd)  we have a special guest.  Let me introduce you to Mr. Byron Sellers who has recently been on missions in the Dominican Republic providing wheelchairs to the poor and disabled.   He works with Joni & Friends, the ministry of Joni Eareckson Tada.  You can see some photos from [...]

How many churches have you joined?

How many churches have you joined? My first church was Ashwood Church of the Nazarene.  I think of great music and powerful preaching (read shouting).  I think of volleyball and the children’s church that my grandmother led. We then moved to Wayside Baptist probably when I was a young teen.  The whole family was baptized [...]

When Tweets Clash: Paradoxes of internet truth

So many wise and inspirational sayings are shared on facebook.  So many “if you love Jesus, then you will forward it with ten friends” chain e-mails going around. Do these bits of wisdom motivate you?  They motivate me to unsubscribe or hit the delete button more often than not. Today, a blogger (nukelearfishing) I follow [...]

Spring-a-thon Fun Run

Spring-a-thon is coming up soon and that means that Team Church will be conducting a Fun Run. This is a 3k run that we have been asked to lead the last couple of years.  Dr. Howell, our local dentist has always supported the race with medals, trophies and t-shirts.   And the AJ Football team [...]

Lazy Fishermen and Dolphins

I was watching animals again on PBS last night, and I was amazed at these dolphins who have discovered a great way to catch fish.  They swim downstream in a channel at just the right time, and create a sort of temporary mud dam by stirring the ground with their tails.  The dolphins create a [...]

Suffering, Death, Redemption

As Good Friday approaches we should be thinking more about the way Jesus suffered for us and eventually gave up His life for us. Jesus was tortured and humiliated.  He took the mocking, the crown of thorns, beatings, flogging, bearing the cross, and then came the crucifixion. Then came the crucifixion: crude and jagged nails [...]

Celebrating 3 Years Anniversary

I don’t know if Team Church is really having an anniversary or a birthday since we launched three Easter’s ago. But whatever you call it, we are celebrating! God has been so good to us over the last three years.  And really it feels like much longer than that because the core launch team has [...]

Why we do community events

Yesterday I mentioned a couple of community events.  That got me thinking about the events that Team Church has conducted in the past. I’ll start by saying that I am extremely proud of Team Church events beginning with the Easter Egg Hunt that launched the church in 2009.  By the way, Olivia Hann, our worship leader [...]

Races Coming together in Kershaw

Jamie Rogers is a pastor friend of mine.  He pastor’s Kershaw Second Baptist and volunteers at the prison with me.  We usually share with each other what’s happening in our respective churches and collaborate on sermon ideas.  Yesterday we talked about being a GRacist (see previous post).  That’s when he shared with me the following. [...]

The Cross

We have a large cross in our church.  It gets moved around a lot because we are a set-up/tear-down church.  The shape of our staging area expands and shifts to accomodate band members.  So the cross gets placed in different spots.  Sometimes, if we are not careful, the cross gets placed as an afterthought. As [...]

“Being Yourself” …do you really have to?

Bahaaa! You’ve got to share with me what you think of this video. The point I believe Ed Young is “rapping” about is that God designed you to be who you are and if you aren’t…the Church is missing out.  The Church was designed that all parts of the body work When I was studying [...]

Gospel of John – Not my cup of tea

As we come closer to Easter Sunday, it’s important to think often of the sacrifice Jesus made for us. Matthew, Mark and Luke give us more of a look at the human side of Jesus such as His suffering in the Garden.  But John displays Jesus’ divine dignity and control He has over every action [...]

Easy to Miss God’s Answer

Wait for the video to appear below and take the following test from Richard Wiseman before you read on. (His blog is filled with neat optical illusions, etc)   Easy to miss for you?  It was for me.  I laughed out loud in disbelief. Sunday I was preaching about asking and receiving in prayer.  Sometimes [...]