Gordon and Karan Hesketh have just initiated a new web site to go along with the others and it’s specifically designed for those in the Tomball area who want to open a dialogue about God, things of the Spirit, and still have your Sunday or weekends free. The web site is Tomball Oasis. Continue reading ‘Tomball Talk’
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Gordon and Karan Hesketh will be kicking off a new home church community next week. The first meeting will be in his son’s house (Shawn). If you’re interested in attending or being involved, please call 713-376-9930. And you can visit his web site at Digital Evangelism.com to get a feel for his heart. Gordon and Karan live in Tomball so most of their meetings will be in that area. Continue reading ‘Gordon Hesketh Home Church’
I’ve seen so many people become disallusioned with institutional churches. I understand that. I started one and I am in the midst of modifying that, believing there is a compromise that will do away with the totalitarianism of the institutional church and still maintain the mission that Jesus, the Christ had. I see way too many people throwing the proverbial baby out with the bath water and winding up with neither baby or bathwater! Continue reading ‘Maintaining The “Christ Mission”’
It begins at home and if it’s not practiced there, it’s near impossible to get it anywhere else. Gangs will lure people in with the promise, but ultimately, that’s not why they want you. I am talking about the need for us to learn LOVE at our mother’s breast and at our father’s side. If there is anything that a HOME church should do and be , it is LOVE! Continue reading ‘Home Training’
So many people run off to home groups so they can hide, not be accountable, or have to face the heavy hand of their institutional masters. Believe me, there are as many masters looking for slaves out of the main stream as there are in it. Just because you wandered off into a smaller stream doesn’t mean you’ve left all the wolves behind. And I’m not implying that those who join a home group are all running. They are not. But, let’s be honest here. Continue reading ‘Spirit, Not Institutions’
Life is FOR GIVING, not FOR GETTING. Put it together. Life is about FORGIVING! And when you look to the core of the beliefs of Jesus Christ, we seek the connection between forgiveness and salvation. Continue reading ‘The Salve Of Salvation’
I’m sure that you’ve heard that expression many times. Some people like to get lost in crowds: meet the mega church. Some people like to be involved in large social activities to benefit the community: meet the medium-sized church. Some people want a traditional church building to meet in but want to know everyone: meet the average small church in America. And then there are these. Continue reading ‘Home IS, Where The Heart IS!’
The problem is not the structure, nor the form. The problem is what’s in the heart of the people! Ralph Neighbor wrote in his book (Where Do We Go From here), “I am convinced that the church worldwide is being slowly replaced by an act of God. Developments taking place today are as powerful as the upheavel in 1517 with Martin Luther.” I seriously doubt that! Continue reading ‘And-Also, Not Either Or’
Professional sport teams generally play better at home than in their away games. The best of teams though don’t care one way or the other. Of course they like sleeping in their own beds; however, they give it their best every time they step onto the court, or playing field. And how about you and I? Continue reading ‘Home Or Away’
Several times in the New Testament we’re told of how our minds have been blinded and how there are scales on our eyes, “seeing we see not”. How does that work anyway? In part it works because everyone is fighting everyone. Pertinent to this site is the battle between home churches and institutional churches. Neither has a lock on truth: both have enough baggage that the last thing either should do is trash the other. Continue reading ‘How Much Can You see?’
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