Empty

Life is empty. So empty it feels like death. The world offers this. The world offers that. This gadget will do this. This drink will make you feel that. In the end “it” all comes up so… empty. There is a surface joy that comes when you redo your kitchen, you buy a new car, […]

Truly

Truly is our next sermon series… but it is more of a study than a series. There isn’t a connecting theme that runs all the way through it, each message covers a different topic and they do not build on each other. Truly is a study of the “truly, truly” sayings of Jesus in the […]

Cutting Board – Awakening Part 5

The cutting board is a compilation of notes that were cut from the sermon. They are not always smooth, or concluding. There will be many open ended statements that are not unpacked, but I feel they are important to be shared here as thought provokers and discussion starters. Gen 1 we were uniquely created – […]

Random Thursday

1- yes it is 3:53am, nothing more needs to be said. 2- Oh… that was a yawn! Yea! Ok don’t get to excited or you want be able to go back to sleep. 3- Every leader must realize that the way we steward our role and our influence will impact every leader that comes behind […]

The Possum Chronicles I

It was a birthday party, in the field directly behind the barn. Grissum, Newsum, Jensum, and Dumsum were there. Even though they had just finished eating out of the garbage can behind the farmer’s house they eyed the array of bugs, snails, berries, fruit, grasses (fresh right off the ground), leaves (fresh and aged from […]

Change is Hard

Well, I sit here today about to enter the door way of change. Its coming regardless of my feelings about it. Do I wish we were back at the diaper stage with my daughter… no not really. Do I wish we were back at the potty training stage with her? no not really… Do I […]