My good friend Johhny Friesner wrote this for one of the devotionals at LCC recently. Hope it challenges you like it did me!
I have always wanted to go on a cruise. Every time I see a commercial for a cruise, it makes think of how nice it would be to be on one of those [...]
Sin…it’s a dirty a word. Nobody likes to use it anymore. We like words like “struggles,” but we don’t like the word sin. I can understand….nobody likes feeling like we are deficient or that there is something wrong with us. However, without a correct understanding of our sin, we will never have a correct understanding [...]
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God
I love the book of 1 Timothy! As I prayed through the idea of being called as a pastor, this book is where I turned to see what God wants from His leaders ,what it takes to be a leader in Jesus’ church, and some of the struggles of being a leader in the church. [...]
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Leadership
…ministry is what God promises to do first FOR us, and then IN us before doing anything through us.
-Mark Driscoll 11 Things God Does for Church Leaders
This is a big weekend for me. I am not going to lie…it’s BIG. There are a few days I hold (and will hold) more dear than Sunday (Day I [...]
I am working through an old college book that I should have read in college. It has been a remarkable read that has both renewed my passion for scripture and my understanding of how to read that scripture. If you get a change check out Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart’s book How To Read The [...]
Christians…I hear this phrase a lot, “I am looking for a church where I can be fed.”
What if we stopped looking to be the one always being fed and started looking to be the one who is feeding?
What would the church look like then?
Being still and doing nothing are two different things.(Jackie Chan in Karate Kid)
Before you laugh at me because of the source…listen to Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God.” I often fall prey to the misunderstanding that being still means doing nothing. Being still, means a lot of things. It means knowing [...]
I listened to a podcast today of a pastor (great message by the way if you get a chance check it out) who told a story of how he had attended his county fair with his family and had witnessed a man beating and cursing at his child. He told of how he confronted the [...]
I apologize…I have not kept up with the blog here lately. It seems that life can get really crazy…really fast!
Busyness isn’t always bad…busyness can mean productivity…it can mean getting things done. But here are some sure signs busyness is becoming unhealthy.
-You can’t sleep
-You don’t HAVE time to pray and study the Bible
-You don’t HAVE time [...]
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