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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
D.A. Carson’s commitment to Biblical truth and responsible theology is commendable in his review of Stanley Grenz’s book Renewing the Center[1]. He starts off with a summary of two theological extremes (exclusivity to either past or present theological discovery) and chooses “the golden mean”[2] between them. Responsible theological reflection,... Continue Reading →
