missio

After a few years, I’m closing DesertFather. Lots have changed, including myself, and it’s time to symbolize that with a fresh start. From here on out, I will be blogging at doxologie.org. This site will remain up. My wife may be blogging sporadically there as well.

Here are some resolutions for 2010:

• To love Jesus, my wife, and my forthcoming children unconditionally and sacrificially.
• To look at my body as a method of worship. I need to lose about 10 pounds.
• I will be preaching, praying, working for this city [Greenville], even harder this year.
• To consistently and continually battle sin in my own life.
• To consistently and continually make disciples who make disciples.
• To seek God’s will in the future of the Brown family with regards to the cities of Greenville and Washington, DC.
• To launch a new blog this week.

Stay tuned.

I know it’s been awhile since the last update, so here are some thoughts in my favorite format, bulleted list.

• We’re having twins! Miranda and I went to the OB/GYN, and to our delightful surprise, we saw two little Brown youngin’s on the sonogram monitor. Wow! We don’t know the gender yet, and trust me, you won’t be the first to know. Sorry ’bout that.
• Some may call me a nut, and in fact, I’ve called other people nuts for saying something like this, but I really think that 2010 is going to be the year that we see revival in Greenville on a large scale. I’m praying earnestly that the Spirit would move mightily through the churches and rebels here in Greenville to bring people to Himself. I just see so much momentum at Harmony Church right now! We’re launching the City, partnering with a college ministry to reach ECU students, taking God & Guinness up a notch, resuming our work with 3rd Street School, launching a new online presence, and, of course, continuing to preach Jesus relentlessly!
• The book of Judges is awesome.
• Glad for this Christmas break, but at the same time stoked about preaching through John again in January. In fact, here’s the preaching schedule for next year (all is tentative, of course):
  • January 3rd-February 14th: Resuming John, picking up John 8:12, ending at John 10:42.
  • February 21st-March 21st: Bride Series, examining the structure (elders, deacons, partners) and makeup (church as body, church as bride) of the Church.
  • March 28th-June 20th: Resuming John, from John 11:1-John 14:31.
  • June 27th-July 25th: Annual Summer OT Series (Habakkuk).
  • August 1st-Aug 15th: Vision Series (GCM)
  • August 22nd – December 5th: John 15:1-John 20:31.
  • December: May finish John, may do Christmas series. Unknown as of yet.
• Excited about the City, and the opportunities it will create for us as a church.
• Stoked about date night this coming Friday!
• Excited about Christmas! The reason for the season: the Cross.
• It’s all I got now.