I want my leaders to do great things for God. I want them to have an impact in the lives of people. The Bible describles where this greatness comes from in Matthew 20:26b. (msg) "Whoever wants to become great must become a servant." The Apostle Peter said we each have received a special gift from the Lord and that we should use it in serving one another as those who have received God's grace. (1 Peter [...]
This is the kind of stuff that makes it worth it. Today I performed a wedding ceremony for a couple who came to me and said they finally realized that they could not walk in God's full blessing unless they quit living together and got married. They realized God could not bless disobedience. But that was not the best thing. They both wanted to commit their lives to Christ and be baptized. So we had [...]
It's been a heck of a day. I woke up to my hall bathroom being flooded. Water must have been overflowing from the toilet half the night. It went through the floor and caused the ceiling in our den to fall, flooded the den with 1/2 inch of water then flowed thought the wall to the garage and laundry room. Praise Jesus! I spoke about joy on Sunday. New revelation. You cannot know true joy [...]
"Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ I became your father through the Gospel." I Corinthians 4:15 We have a lust for knowledge in our world. We always want to know and we feel an obligation to help everyone else to know what we know. There are many people who know about Christ but don't know Him. What we need is not more spiritual [...]
"The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out." Proverbs 10:9 (NIV) Amy and I just got back from a week in San Antonio, Texas where we were invited to speak at a retreat by a great friend and his wife. The time we spent with Robbie and Annie made me think of the first part of the verse above. Robbie is a Youth Pastor with 412 Youth [...]