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 […]

The Top 5 Church Bugs

There are bugs in churches across this nation and literally in churches all over the world. Bugs are not a respecter of denominations, in fact they do not mind if the church is Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, handles snakes, wears robes, has a drum set or uses an organ. It seems that the bugs that get […]

De-Friended

I think sometimes forgiveness is hard. In fact it is easier to want it than give it. Forgiveness doesn’t mean a blank slate and its not forgetting. Things that happen are there, they are done… part of the past. God doesn’t forget those things and neither do we. Forgiveness is not forgetting, but it is […]

A Few Closing Thoughts…

Some days it is hard to write. Take today for instance, my schedule has been packed. From several meetings, phone calls, contacts for Summer Spectacular, time with the family to Studying for a message for July 3rd… the day has been slammed. Here at 9:46pm the day is coming to a close… so in light […]