Did God Speak? (“Moving On!,” Part 4)
My plans are to move to Texas with my family in the next few months to plant a church. I never, ever, ever—Never!—wanted to do this. What changed my mind? A conversation with a friend at Sizzler on June 21, a Friday afternoon…. (Read the beginning of this story by clicking here.)
I sat down to lunch with our former Hope Chapel CPA, a gifted man, not given to flights of fancy or whimsical notions, and listened as he explained why he suddenly moved to the Austin area of Texas.
Here’s what he said:
“Around the end of last year I felt that God was telling me to move Austin. I didn’t know why but I told him that he would have to change my wife’s heart first. When we married, she said that she was born in L. A. and was going to die in L. A. A few months later, she felt that she should quit her job to stay home with the kids now that they were of high school age. So, I gave a couple month’s notice that I was leaving Hope Chapel, but didn’t know what I was going to do yet.
Counting the Call’s Cost (“Moving On,” Pt.5)
My family’s moving to Texas to plant a church soon. It started with a conversation at Sizzler with a friend. Though I never, EVER, wanted to start a church, God was urging me on. But first, I had to count the cost. (Start the series by clicking here.) “Steve, you have been trained for fifteen
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