I love this time of the year. We have pretty mild winters here and I can open my window at night to let the coolness of the night breeze blow into my bedroom while I have the heat on. OK, not the most eco-friendly or economic, but you can cool the room off and cover up with lots of blankets. MMMMMM - good sleep. I've noticed lately how much I enjoy hearing the wind blow [...]
"in the end the medium always becomes the message." Alan Hirsch - The Forgotten Ways How tough it is in pastoring a church to keep the focus on the message we are called to bring. You may say that doesn't make sense. The church is all about Jesus and the message is about Him. This is true, but if you are a Pastor you know what I'm talking about. While we share the message about [...]
I hope that in all our celebration or regret over the election, that we would all see our need to pray for President Elect Obama and all those whom we have elected to office as servants with great responsibility under God. Please pray..... For our national Leaders. That our national leaders would acknowledge their authority as coming from God. Pride goes before the fall. The humble will be exalted. That our national leaders would be [...]
I'm thinking... If we were only as eager for change in our personal lives as we are for change in our nation. Too often we long for the wrong things to satisfy our angst. While we debate over who has the best policies for change, and honestly, in my opinion I could not really tell who is right. One is right and one is wrong, but who? Obama is going to save you more, so he [...]
"It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God - but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people - and this is not learned in five minutes." Oswald Chambers Discipleship is a process. It's moment by moment. It's the ordinary things that produce the character necessary to support the Great Moments. The exceptional things [...]
