Started the day late for a breakfast with with my Dad, Jonathan, Colleen's Dad, Grandpa Bill and my nephew Matt at Firehouse Cafe. Great food, great fun and great company. After breakfast, picked up my Mom. We went to the grocery store to get supplies for...
I just finished reading Churched by Matthew Paul Turner. The cover was what initially intrigued me. A close-up shot of a kid putting a tie on. The subtitle grabbed me next: "one kid's journey toward God despite a holy mess". THAT resonated with me. Having grown...
A powerful visitation happened at 10:30 Celebration this morning. For those who were at the 8:30, I don't know if you noticed this or not, but the worship time we shared was incredibly tied into the message titled, "Journey Through The Wall". We endeavor to have...
Finished our annual Harvest Festival tonight, and it was a real blowout! Kinda literally! We had inflatables everywhere; huge ones! We had a Rock Climbing Wall and a Monkey Jump, along with a whole bunch of other game booths, a DJ (Thanks Johnny!) and a...
Yes...
It's almost the end of Summer, and I feel kinda tense about it. Not in a bad kinda way, but in a perplexing kinda way.On one hand, it's been a really long Summer. An intense one with lots of crises to walk through with people....
Two update emails today have said that Pastor Glen Jackson's condition remains the same. There will be no tests done over the weekend unless something were to change considerably. Please continue to pray for a miracle in this situation!It has been a long week! Knowing...
Funerals are hard. Even when I don't know the person whose funeral I am officiating, like today, they're just hard. I think some of it for me is because I just want people to feel better, and death is something I just can't fix. I...
Tonight, I am working on my notes for a memorial service I will officiate in the morning for a man I have never had the pleasure to meet. If you are a Pastor, maybe you feel like I do about what we get to do:...
Craig Groeschel, Pastor of LifeChurch.tv, interviewed Satan for a recent message on unity in the church. He apparently has done several of these interviews. Enjoy some humor today ...