“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.” Bishop T.D. Jakes Here are five links to help you keep learning today! Leadership and the San Antonio Spurs – great leadership lessons for the sports fans out there How to Engage the Demonic – insightful follow up if you’ve been keeping up with our War of the Worlds sermon series The Irony of the... Read more
Full disclosure: I consider myself a Republican. I don’t delude myself into thinking that the Republican party is by any means infallible, but their emphasis on fiscal responsibility and smaller government is the best hope to save America from the entitlement/welfare state that will bankrupt us in my lifetime. But I digress. More than being a Republican, I am a Christian. I should be a perfect candidate for the Religious Right, a political faction built on conservative/biblical values. But I never... Read more
Yesterday I shared about a recent conversation I had with a woman where I had the opportunity to practice what I preach in the most uncomfortable fashion. While sharing the good news of grace and forgiveness from John 8 (the story of the woman caught in adultery), Leslie* asked if she could ever be forgiven because she was a lesbian and didn’t want to change. The easiest thing to do would have been to give into the temptation that too... Read more
Recently I got a chance to practice what I preach in the most unusual and uncomfortable fashion. One of the great privileges I have is working with a group of ladies at an in-treatment facility center in Columbus who are dealing with a host of addiction issues. One of the things I try and do is help the ladies dig deeper underneath their addiction to discover what’s really driving it. We’ve talked through traumatic events, bad-guy boyfriends, abortions, abusive homes,... Read more
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Who’s ready for Memorial Day Weekend? Here’s some interesting articles to keep you reading through the holiday. Enjoy! Kirsten Powers: Liberal’s Dark Ages – Must Read! Great article that captures the hypocrisy of the ‘tolerance’ movement. Author Debunks Myths About Divorce Rates, Including of Churchgoers – Great news for married people! What is the Link Between Pornography and Sex Trafficking? – Insightful article from my buddy Tony Merida. Do We Do Discipleship Wrong? – Derwin Gray asks a critical question... Read more
Meredith Mayo, our Director of Connections at Mt Vernon Church, is attempting to harness the power of social media and win a trip to Rwanda with some great organizations. Take a second, watch her video, and vote for Meredith! You can vote once a day! (Click Here to Vote) A message from Meredith: #SendMere Friends! Please watch the below video of me shamelessly asking for your help. That’s right, I need YOUR HELP in winning a trip to Rwanda with... Read more
The ladies I get to work with at a local in-treatment facility are nothing but statistics (at least in the world’s eyes). They’re the broken ones, the addicts, the relapsers, the drains on society. Early in ministry it was too easy for me to smugly judge them for messing up their life while on my way to my next Bible study (Good Samaritan, anyone?). And then I got to know them. The outcasts, the broken ones, the failures. I got... Read more
She’s the archetype of 1990s beauty and excess: a glamorous vixen that drew the lustful gazes of too many boys (and men) and whipped up jealous hatred from millions of women who didn’t ascend to her level of culturally defined beauty. She was an actress on the show (Baywatch) that was at one time the most popular show on the planet. She was a Playboy pinup. She had fame, beauty, and riches. She had everything the world had to offer. The... Read more
The DNA of each church is different. Every church culture is unique. Recently our staff got together and identified the defining characteristics of Mt Vernon. What makes us ‘us.’ This list is a continual work in progress, but here’s we think is in the ‘secret sauce’ at Mt Vernon: We make everyone welcome. This speaks to our culture. It doesn’t matter your station in life. Whether you’re educated or uneducated, churched or unchurched, married or divorced, an outstanding citizen or a... Read more
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