5 Years Ago We Moved To Start Seven San Diego Church
Everyone always says, “Wow…I can’t believe it’s been…and fill in the blank on how many years it’s been since…” Part of me says the last 5 years have gone by fast. Another part of me feels the last five years have felt like 10 or 20 sometimes. I guess it just depends on the moment. […] Read More
Seven San Diego, High Desert Church, PCI, Divine appt… and many more!
I’m sitting in Starbucks in Otay Ranch Town Center in Chula Vista, getting ready to fire off this blog and I look up and see our latest advertisement on the Starbucks community board (the orange “Ineed a life” cards) must be the work of Roberto and his cohorts! I love it!!! I am fired up […] Read More
Church is ESSENTIAL
If you’ve been to any of the Skyline Church campuses, you’ve probably heard me recite our purpose statement, “Helping people find and follow Jesus seven days a week.” That’s because the pastors, staff, volunteers, and members believe that the idea of “faith” is more than a weekly check mark on our to-do lists. We believe that following Jesus isn’t just […] Read More
Church Home
Finding a church home can be intimidating. Is there a certain protocol? You may be wondering … when do I stand up or when do I sit down? Is there a dress code? Hey, I’ve been there! And I just want to say, relax. One indicator that you’re closer to finding your church home is when […] Read More
UPDATE: SKYLINE, SEVEN, MULTISITE AND BABIES!
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Easter–The Superbowl for Churches
What an Easter Sunday we had. Thank you all for accepting the challenge of inviting people to hear about Jesus and we broke the attendance record! Our largest attendance in our young history: 227 people came on Easter Sunday. Here are some of the comments we received after Sunday’s service: “I never knew church could […] Read More
Breakfast at Wimbledon and church
I’m not a huge tennis fan, but the final at Wimbledon I will watch. As a kid I used to watch Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Mats Wilander, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe go at it at Wimbledon. It was the only thing on TV during the summer on ESPN and my TV was absolutely stuck […] Read More
New Year, New Church Launch
MessageLast weekend I spoke at Skyline about hearing from God. If you need to hear from God go to our website and get the message, “How to Hear in the New Year.” www.sevensdchurch.com. That doesn’t sound right, I mean if you want to see what the Bible says about how to hear from God then […] Read More
Mt. Hermon, Seven San Diego and the Padres
We are headed to Mt. Hermon in Santa Cruz, CA. This is a trip we look forward to every year. www.mounthermon.org. We will be there for a week listening to good speakers, hanging out with good friends and enjoying the services of Mt. Hermon’s children’s programs and taking in the cool coastal weather we find […] Read More
Seven San Diego Coming Together
I am thrilled to report that we had a great meeting today at Skyline Church. We borrowed one of their 4th floor rooms and team members from the High Desert made the 2 1/2 hour trip so we all could be together in San Diego. Since the PD Planting conference was postponed I decided we […] Read More
Shadow Mountain Agrees to Sponsor Seven SD
Great News! Shadow Mountain Community Church www.shadowmountain.org has agreed to sponsor Seven San Diego. What that means is we have immediate help, protection, legal status, insurance, non-profit status, etc. through Shadow Mountain. Shadow has always been a very special church to me. Pastor David Jeremiah was my first pastor as a young believer ( I […] Read More
Seven San Diego Prospective Sites
I’m in San Diego this week looking at prospective sites for our church launch and talking with numerous pastors and church planters here in San Diego. Trying to learn all I can about what others have done that went well and what others have done that didn’t work out so well. I am also adding […] Read More
Seven San Diego Begins
I am absolutely fired up about your response to the vision I shared last Sunday night. The Seven San Diego train continues to gain steam. Over 155 people filled out the communication card wanting to be a part in one way or another and over 77 families have said they are interested in moving to […] Read More
A Heart To Give
Oftentimes, pastors are reluctant to talk about giving because of the way culture has taught us to think about money. Culture talks about giving in manipulative, coercive, and guilt-laying ways. But as many of you know, at Skyline we don’t shy away from hard topics. We’re dedicated to teaching the relevance of Scripture in truth […] Read More
A year later…
It’s been over a year since we started the process for The Impact campaign, “Building a Place for Imperfect People” and it has been going fast and strong. The overview: Sept 2014: We announced plans to raise money to find a place to call our church home. Feb 2015: We received 1.4 million in commitments. June […] Read More
The Bottom Line
Many organizations are unaware that they are funding principles that go against the core beliefs of their organization. This week on the Bottom Line Show with Roger Marsh, I had the privilege of expanding on our recent legislative victory! You can listen to the interview by clicking here. At Skyline Church, one of our core […] Read More
Pray.com
Last month, I partnered with a new platform to reach more people for Christ. Over 13 million trusted users worldwide access Pray.com regularly in search of biblical content. For a limited time, we’re able to offer our church family premium access (normally a $96/year value) on their app. Click here for free premium access. You may […] Read More
Public School Disaster
Our Answer: Skyline Christian AcademyWhy are we starting a Christian Academy at Skyline Church? Because we want to help people. The reason behind everything we do at Skyline Church is to help people find and follow Jesus seven days a week. One of the biggest areas of need in our community is in our education […] Read More
Slow Grow
Slow Grow Is Better Than No Grow We’re in a teaching series at Skyline Church that focuses on nine characteristics that God wants to see in growing Christians. These nine characteristics in Galatians are known as the fruits of the spirit. Notice the metaphor “fruit.” The original audience of the Apostle Paul’s writing was an agricultural community. […] Read More
