The Great Invitation
The last few weeks have been a crazy kind of whirlwind… 3 weeks ago I got to go down to Orlando with my dad for a few days to go to a church planters conference called Exponential… heard some really good things while there and it was very cool to download as I was hearing and thinking about things with dad. Dad is 72 and is still going to places in order to learn things even though he could have been teaching on the main...
National Day of Prayer for the Church
Today was the National Day of Prayer and I was asked to pray(which was a real honor) for the Church in Buffalo down at Niagara on the Square. I had several people ask for a copy of it so here it is… Father God we come before You today in a posture of brokenness and humbleness of heart. We declare it is Your Church… not ours and that You are the only one to be praised. You have loved us so much that you saw our great need...
Easter 2011
Easter 2011 will always be a great day for us to look back and celebrate at Renovation! This is our 3rd Easter as a faith community and God just blew us away. We have been in a series called Why Jesus and it has really prepared our hearts and minds for us as we headed into Easter today. Asking good questions about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit is never a bad thing. We have been tackling some of those over the last few weeks and...
Who Do You Say he Is?
We had another great day at Renovation and I never get tired of saying it or experiencing it. The reality of seeing people who were addicted coming out of those chains, or marriages that should crash and burn because so much bad baggage but some how leaning toward redemption, or seeing a 15 year old taking the metro from the westside to get to church by 7.00 in the morning to go to Acquire the Fire in Jersey with 30 of our students...
4 Years Ago Today…
Well we started a new series today that will lead us right into Easter Sunday called Why Jesus? As I said this morning many of us need some extra tools in our intellectual/theological toolkit. The majority of people coming to Renovation are fairly new in the relationship with Christ or they come from a limited amount of authentic biblical teaching. So our hope is to give people some solid teaching that will help them personally and to...