I realize how valuable new starts are. It’s a challenging, encouraging feeling to have a blank canvas, a newly tilled field, an open road. Fresh commitments are fueled by the thought: “This time I’m going to make it! I can feel it!” It’s why January is considered the most disciplined month of the year. We [...]

 I just wrapped up Mark Batterson’s newest book, Primal – A Quest For The Lost Soul Of Christianity. Overall a great read! In Primal, Batterson expands on what Jesus called The Greatest Commandment – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with [...]

Maybe He should have hired a firm. The advent of Christ was a time-splitting event, forever altering history and human hearts. You would think God could have thought through a better marketing plan. A young mother, painfully pregnant, stuck in Bethlehem for a government census (the timing!). While in town for the census, she goes [...]

Tylenol shouldn’t be at the top of your Christmas wish list. I mean, come on. Every year it happens, even amongst throngs of people who say they’ll resist it: turmoil over the Christmas season. Why? Why would we ever choose this? And I use ‘choose’ very purposefully. See, I think that all of the stress, [...]

Hey, friends – just wanted you to know that you can go to www.fountainaudio.com and download MP3′s of our Sunday Messages from the Fountain Church. Search by month, speaker, or just click on our podcast link to have it all downloaded automatically to your computer. Good stuff!