As I travel around the country, I am amazed at the number of people who I talk to that are genuinely striving to keep the 10 commandments apart from Christ. Though they have heard the gospel and received its truth, they have run back to a law-keeping mindset and have convinced themselves if they […]
Even as a new parent, I realized quickly the power and importance of words. Today our society flippantly uses the word love for everything from bubblegum to baseball. In doing so, we cloud the lines and understanding of true love. In all of history, there is one example that stands out above all the rest […]
I listened intently as my pastor shared from Ephesians 5:1-6 this weekend. Thank you Pastor John! Here’s what I caught and contemplated: Immorality, impurity are set against the perfect plan of God. It includes anything sexually that is not Gods’s design as part of marriage as described in Genesis. Hebrews 13:4 further clarifies there is […]
I listened intently as my pastor shared from Ephesians 5:1-6 this weekend. Thank you Pastor John! Here’s what I caught and contemplated: Immorality, impurity are set against the perfect plan of God. It includes anything sexually that is not Gods’s design as part of marriage as described in Genesis. Hebrews 13:4 further clarifies there is […]
Years ago, my wife and I were co-leading a week long summer camp in central Wisconsin. We showed up a day early to make sure everything was in place. Car by car, families pulled up and dropped their precious cargo of junior high students. When it was all said and done we had about thirty […]
It’s no secret that sin exists in each of us. And its ultimate destination is death with a lot of damage, heartache and pain along the way. God has a different vision for us; where satan tempts us to fail, God tests us to reveal how He has matured us as well as our constant […]
I received a phone call yesterday evening from my beautiful bride. She warned me that the plants I have been taking such precious care of each and every day had been attacked by a four-year-old with scissors. In but a few moments, all of what I had nurtured had been stolen, killed, and destroyed. I […]
A thought hit me today as I was watering our seed starts for our garden. In some of the packs there are weeds that I’m watering. Why am I doing that? Of course I pulled out the ones that were blatant weeds(these are easily distinguishable once the real seed start comes up. In […]
So thankful that in August 1989, I took ownership of the sins I had committed against God. I confessed, repented and He moved just as He has promised. There have been many ups and downs and even times where I longed for he Egypt of my past life. Yet God remained and continues […]
This weekend our pastor shared from Ephesians 3:24-21. One word jumped out at me many all the others…dwell. It’s not just that He desires to dwell “with” us but even desires to dwell “in” us. It’s as if He purchased us as a house and is going to live in us. Furthermore, if we are […]