On Sunday, August 29th, our church will not be meeting at the Woodinville Movie Theaters!  Because it’s a long weekend, it tends to be one the least attended Sundays of the year!  So, we are celebrating what God has done at Emmaus by having a BBQ!  We will meet at 11am at a large home [...]

We LOVE stories!  Oh yes you do!  Whether you’re watching the Days of our Lives, ESPN, CNN, CNET.COM, or enjoy a good conversation, we’re all talking about stories and drama!  That’s what God at the Movies is all about.  We’re taking the biggest films of 2010 and intersecting them with God and the Bible.  No, [...]

It’s been an odd summer.  I’ve been in ministry for almost 20 years and never have I been part of a church that grew numerically in the summer!  Well, Emmaus is breaking that trend!  Although we’re not ready to buy Key Arena just yet because of our attendance growth, we are seeing people come!  No, [...]

As I do my Saturday night ritual (praying, studying, begging) on the eve of Moses 5: A Staff and a Skip, I can’t help but to be distracted by the recent wave of new people who want to serve at Emmaus and the joy I feel because of it! Why is that a big [...]

As Adrian and I learn at The Present Future conference in Calgary, Alberta, we have been impacted by speaker Jeff Jarvis who revealed that we are Christians by what we do more than what we think. Unless our actions make a difference, what is the quality of our faith in God?
As I [...]

“A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” -Proverbs 31:30. I think women get a bad wrap. On the one hand, they are expected to personify all that is good and be clothed with love, tenderness, and selflessness. On the other hand, they have the expectation to exhibit strength, courage, [...]

I must say that one if my favorite aspects of church planting is meeting new people! The last 3 or 4 weeks has been exceedingly rewarding because of the many new people and momentum that is here at Emmaus!
What I find facinating, as I sit here at a Starbucks, is that our [...]

That was my first thought when I finally arrived home and settled myself after our first Sunday at the Woodinville Movie Theaters!  The “wow” didn’t come from how great everything looked or how great the band sounded, but it came from the stories and comments I heard about what God was doing in people’s lives. 
The [...]

It’s not about the show.  It’s not about being polished.  It’s not about impressing people with our pyrotechnics (we really don’t have any planned in our services….no, really) enough to manipulate them into coming back.  But if what people do sense, and this is my prayer, is a spirit of joy, acceptance, and hope…then we’ll have [...]

As we are preparing our church plant, Emmaus Church, to move to the Woodinville Movie Theaters, I can’t help but to keep thinking how important TEAM is.  Too often the average person doesn’t think about how influential they are.  They don’t think intentionally about how they influence and how much of an impact they have on the people [...]