Love – Devotional Questions

During your devotional time today reflect on the following. 1 Corinthians 13 1. Based on the characteristics of biblical love, think of a random act of kindness you can perform. 2. Reread 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and replace the word love (and its pronouns) with your name. 3. Are there any past hurts that you need […]

Less is More

At the beginning of the fall (2011) I took on too many home projects. All in one week I decided to paint my house, rework and mulch the flower beds, do something with my deck (it was falling a part) clean out my Attic, seed my yard, finish our kitchen remodeling project and fix various […]

Vulture

Every now and then I tell my kids stories, some I make up, others I rearrange while others start like something they have heard before but end differently… Here is the one I told them yesterday. Let me tell you an “old Indian story” (This always gets their attention) Once there live a vulture who […]

You + Hard Time = Vision

You know that hard time you are going through right now? The one that causes you pain you never intended to have? It is now producing a new vision for your life. It is because of that pain that you are now asking questions like… What does life look like outside of this mess? How […]

Drifting

Just the other day I felt myself drifting away from the way God designed me to be. It was a moment where I experienced a strong pull to move toward conformity. It just so happened I was with a group of people (not from our church) who were discussing what a pastor should and shouldn’t […]

Cutting Board – Everything 6

The cutting board is a “rough” blog post of a piece of information that was important to the sermon for sunday but had to be cut to preserve the overall flow of the message. Here is a section that was cut from the sermon “Everything 6” It’s not just “what you believe” about the Bible […]