Not Them AGAIN!

I met someone for the first time a few weeks ago and they rubbed me the wrong way. Have you ever had that happened to you? Honestly they irritated the “snot” out of me. I was cordial, and kind but not as nice and as accepting as I should have been. In fact, secretly I […]

Thankful – From 2010 but Still True Today.

Right now, I am sitting in the fellowship hall at the church waiting for our elders to arrive. We will meet for 30minutes and then the deacons at our church will join us. I am alone with just the sound of heat pumps working to warm up the room. And I am thankful. Thankful to […]

Thanksgiving Music

Just the other day I was talking with Nick Decker (our pastoral Intern) about seasonal music. He could not believe that I actually had not only October Music but Thanksgiving music as well. He said “I didn’t even know Thanksgiving Music Existed” It seems that Christmas and Halloween overshadow and drown out Thanksgiving each year. […]

A Report on Tithing

October 29 2013 by Katherine Burgess, Religion News Service WASHINGTON – Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research group. “Is the issue that the church is not […]

Real

It is easy to get sucked into a life that is not authentic Especially if you are going into or are in the ministry If you are in the ministry you are pressured to pick a side, hold to a certain view point, all attached to a name or a speaker promoting those views… If […]

Whatever

Jesus says, “whatever you ask for in prayer, you will receive… if you have faith.” Now I don’t know about you, but I have asked for plenty of things and did not get them. I have asked for outcomes to “outcome” a particular way and it didn’t happen the way I asked for it to. […]