Stonebrook 101

Stonebrook 101

Stonebrook 101 – Part 3

  INTRODUCTION Not to sound rude, but….WHY ARE YOU HERE??  🙂 Why are you here? Now, I don’t mean, “Why are you at Stonebrook.” I mean, “Why are you alive and on this planet?” What is your purpose, your reason for being? We often hear from the business world or the self-help book world…or even the Christian world… “You need to find your purpose.  You need to write your personal mission statement.” I agree wholeheartedly. Otherwise we are aimless. Wandering. Simply doing…

Stonebrook 101 – Part 2

  Introduction Last week Paul kicked off our three week series, “Stonebrook 101” and did an excellent job of contrasting the competing visions of life: one aimed at pleasing ourselves, and one aimed at pleasing God.  SELFIE VISION VS. JESUS VISION He called the life aimed at pleasing ourselves and making ourselves famous the selfie vision (and here’s a picture of him pretending to take a selfie…, and to be fair here’s a selfie I took recently. This is me…