Anchor Point Church

How to Confess

"Confess your sins…”

James 5:16 tells us to “confess your sins to one another” (CSB). We are commanded to openly admit our sin to our fellow believers. It is probably safe to say that this command is one of the less popular among Christians today, and perhaps in all of history. We don’t like confessing sin, after all, it makes us look bad! And often it comes with a real cost—we have to humble ourselves and be willing to risk being thought less of by others, and ourselves.

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A THANK YOU FROM THE COOLEYS

Twenty years. I still can't quite believe it.

Retirement is the right thing for me to do, but leaving AnchorPoint isn't easy. It’s not because it's the wrong decision, but because this place and you all mean so much to us. Clearly, "right" doesn't always mean easy.

Here's what this season has taught me...

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The Church Merger, the Cuban Pastor, and the Craziest Week of the Year

This is my second-to-last blog as a staff pastor at AnchorPoint Church.

Weird.

About ten and a half years ago, Pastor Reinaldo asked me to meet him at Einstein Bagels. I didn't know him well — just that he'd been on staff at Rio West Community Church. And that he was Cuban. Not holding that against him, I agreed to meet. He asked what I thought about a merger between Cottonwood Church, which I pastored, and Rio West.

Six months later the merger was in full swing, with the first combined service set for September. In the meantime, Rio West invited Cottonwood to their VBS.

Here's the thing, many folks at Cottonwood had no idea what VBS even stood for. When I told them...

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