Matthew Costner is a church planter in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s also worked as a consultant to various churches and para-church organizations. Matthew loves to preach, teach, write, workout, and drink sweet tea.
sticks and stones and words
Recently I read a quote by Carl Upchurch. It was about his understanding of what life was like being born a black man in poverty. This is what he said about his school experience.
The white teachers brought their white values into the school – values that negated my world entirely. The message was subtle, but [...]
POVERTY
I admit that I haven’t been good at blogging lately. That’s no secret to anyone seeing that the last time I blogged was over a month ago. However, a lot has been happening.
For one, God’s church that I pastor, East Nashville Community Church, has moved into a new building. We are now at the Kirkpatrick [...]
still about sacrifice.
In the spirit of World Cup soccer and yesterday’s post on sacrifice…
Today I read this quote by Mia Hamm about her soccer team – “I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”
I [...]
sacrifice
Life has been so hectic lately. I know many of you don’t know this because I haven’t really talked about it a lot, but I am working two jobs now. I work during the day at FiftyForward (you can read about it here) and I am working to plant a church (website coming soon!).
I’ve been [...]
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