Spiritual disciplines are taught in Scripture and have been practiced by Christians for 2,000 years. They help us focus our faith and focus on God. Spiritual disciplines are habits of engagement in the sense that they help bend us away from the carnal and engage us in spiritual thinking and […]
Read MoreArchive for September, 2016
All For One and One For All
You remember this line from the nineteenth-century French author Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers. I’m a big fan. Love the book, movies, characters, love for country and all things right. “All for One and One for All” has another connotation for me, as well. As Christ followers, we are […]
Read MoreTake the Next Step: 12 Fall Growth Initiatives
Each fall we like to roll out some of the ministry expansion objectives that we are working on. Of course, there are many ministries and outreaches already on our normal ongoing calendar, but in the piece below you will see several new goals and initiatives that our leadership team is praying about, promoting, […]
Read MoreHow’s Your Vision?
I wear contacts normally, but occasionally I need the focus that reading glasses provide. I jokingly tell people that I don’t need the reading glasses but wear them only because they make me look good. But nobody believes me…not even me. First, I need a lot more than glasses to […]
Read MoreA Proud Day
Forgive me for celebrating a proud dad moment, but I just can’t help it. Lisa and I have three amazing sons of whom we are incredibly proud. Just ask me, and I’ll brag on each of them without taking a breath. We just returned from the East Coast where […]
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