5 Essentials for a Better Bible Study

Yesterday marked the first completion of reading the Bible through in a year for me. 2019 was a great year of faith building and growth in Christ and I believe this was largely due to a consistent time with God in His Word and in prayer. Here I'm compiling five things that made the most …

Thoughts on 2 Timothy 1:3-4

"I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy," 2 Timothy 1:3‭-‬4 NKJV A significant amount of the joy and peace …

Hate to Love

Can you think of a time where a friendship was forged in your own life over something you both mutually hated? It's not the ideal way to form a friendship because of the inevitable slander that takes place but if you find someone you really want to connect with, feeling around in the dark to …

It’s been a while…

Call it summer break or writers block. The fact that I've not been submitting content really boils down to the point that I've had nothing to say. I tried reposting stuff but I felt that God has been telling me to not post anything. I don't know how long this will take but I sincerely …

The Music of Conversation

21 years ago this month I was in a van with seven other people that ended up becoming very dear to me. We traveled for Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri on a musical recruiting team. Our travel schedule lasted throughout the school year going to churches on the weekend, and also for 10 weeks …

I Started a Joke Guitar (Bee Gee’s/Wallflowers) Tutorial

A great way to connect with people in living room setting is to have a guitar and play and sing songs people know and can sing along with. Here is a video tutorial for acoustic guitar players. https://youtu.be/go6JQ2Otn_8

Wanted: Parents

A few years ago the church I was pastoring at the time graciously sent my wife and I to a Weekend to Remember marriage conference hosted by Family Life. It was an awesome conference to say the least. My wife doesn't so much like hotels so I looked for a bed and breakfast. I looked up …

How to Apologize like a Boss

While driving my son back from an orthodontist appointment he pointed out a grammatical error on a sign over a feeding center owned and operated by a local church.  The sign says "Fishes 'N' Loaves".  I wonder how many people see that sign and completely discount that church as irrelevant based on nothing else.  For all we …

3 Steps In Processing Your Past

I heard it said while watching Disney's Meet the Robinson's a few years back.  It's a great movie with a quirky but lovable family, an antagonist you'll love by the end of the movie, and this mantra, "Keep moving forward." I'm a forward thinking person but I also have a deep love for the past.  It's …

Keepers of the Promise

Setting up for a party of 400 is easy when you have a system and people that have done it 400 times.  One problem constantly reoccurring is how cups are stacked and put back into storage.  The stack that gets pulled to set the cups may say "Goblets", "Irish Mugs", or "High Ball", but that …