Have you ever met these guys? The Church Planting Zen Masters? The Start Up Yodas? These are the guys who have spent zero time in the trenches, zero time in boot camp, zero time on the field, and 99.9 percent of their church experience in the bleachers. Read Full Story
When it comes to sin, have you noticed that everyone seems to have an subconscious scale of sorts? I’m talking about that spiritual gauge we apply to others and seldom (if ever) apply to ourselves. The following are common ways I’ve heard it applied: Read Full Story
Trail fail ain’t fun—that much you can be very sure of.
If you don’t have any idea what I am talking about, go to yesterday’s post, here, or just scroll down.
So, the gist of what I’m saying is that we ‘become what we are committed to.’ We head straight for that which has our complete focus. It happens with nasty obstacles on a mountain biking trail and it happens in life.
Focus on other women when you’re married and you will soon be stuck wi... Read Full Story
No, this isn’t a political post. It has nothing to do with that.
This has to do with my quiet time this morning.
I’m still in the book of Numbers and learning anew about disfunctional leadership and followership. Today it was both. The situation (Cliff Notes version) was that Moses sent out 12 spies to ‘scope out’ the promised land (which is interesting in and of itself since God told them the land was already theirs—but that’s another post for another ti... Read Full Story
I didn’t forget this series, just needed to give it some more prayerful consideration and careful thought before plowing ahead. If you missed the first one (last week) you can read it by clicking HERE.
Now, for context, we should turn to chapter 14 of Romans:
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The man who eats everything ... Read Full Story
As some of you know, yesterday—in the early morning hours—I was visited by the ‘kidney stone fairly.’ Unlike other fairies (tooth fairy for example) I didn’t get any cash, all I got was a tiny, jagged edged, rock!
Well, that’s when I remembered that I promised my two kids, Nathan 12 and Juliana 10 that we would all sleep out in the treehouse.
No, I’m not kidding.
I made a lame attempt to mention the rain and adverse conditions, but they quickly count... Read Full Story
Getting used to these again are ya? I laid off for a few months—not sure why. Maybe my mind didn’t have anything in it to spare let alone dump.
But these days there’s plenty on my mind.
It was a great day today at Southbrook. Southbrook central saw more than 50 people give their lives to Christ! Two of these were in our youth! This NEVER gets old!
We talked about one of my very favorite stories in all of scripture—the story of Nicodemus.
This chapter also has the mo... Read Full Story
We are more than 12 hours into out 24 hours of prayer for tomorrow’s Nicodemus project as well as the message I am doing on the 22nd (The Woman at the Well). These are 2 naturally evangelical passages and I will be ‘going there!’ You can count on that! Read Full Story
