January 2011
1 post
Forests and Trees
A startling discovery has been made. If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, it still does make a noise. With this startling piece of knowledge we now know that just because we aren’t there doesn’t mean we can ignore something.
I have been in churches for a long time, and for about half that time a Christian ( or at least I bowed the title). In that time I have observed...
September 2010
3 posts
To Be a Man of God (Preached Sept 22, 2010)
Ephesians 5:25- 33
1 Peter 3: 7
Tonight I am going to be talking to the guys. It is all about you guys tonight. We are going to discuss what it takes for you guys to be men of God. Ladies you may want to pay attention because this will give you a good measuring stick on the type of guy you should want. Now guys I want you to understand a few things. One you are boys. Yes you are teenagers...
Worship Life (Preached Sept 19, 2010)
Turn with me to Amos chapter 5 beginning with verse 18. I will be reading out of the TNIV (Read Amos 5:18- 20).
This is the first of three parts in chapter 5 we are going to look at today. All three of them are talking about worship. Not necessarily music, but worship none the less. Worship in the most basic of meaning is to attribute worth to someone. It was a common theme among the minor...
Preaching
I’ve had the awesome opportunity to preach a lot more than usual lately. So I decided to post my sermons here, just cause. If you for some reason feel like stealing them have the integrity to change anything that is personal.
July 2010
1 post
Ever since I started this challenge of blogging once a week, I often find when I get to blogging that I have absolutely nothing to say. It’s just a little bit annoying. I probably have tons of stuff to say somewhere in my brain but most of it isn’t for this form of communication. I also think that whatever I blog about should have some substance, as if CNN will be reviewing my blog...
June 2010
5 posts
Bigger or Better
At youth the other night we played the game bigger or better. A simple game where you start with a penny and try and trade for the coolest thing. I definitely think I may have been given the coolest group there was, but I may be biased. Though are team did end with a scooter and a kitchen play set, though not enough to beat a working t.v.
The idea of trading up led me to thinking about our...
Waiting is the hardest part
Unfortunately the title of this blog is also shared by a terrible country song. But it is an annoying truth. Waiting is hard. We live in a microwave culture, we want it now and there are to be no exceptions. We apply this to everything even God. Yet here is the thing God is not a bag of popcorn. We can’t just pray and expect that in 5 minutes God will be ready to do whatever we want....
Changing Times
In his great wisdom Solomon wrote that there is a season for everything, or in not so poetic words things change. It is kind of the nice, or at the very least interesting, part of life. As Kim goes into her internship in a week the two of us are starting to look to where next? We will both be done with Bethany a very bitter sweet thing indeed as this school has been my home for the last 7ish...
Interesting timing
It has been always a slight annoyance to me the expression ‘that it will happen in God’s time’. Time seems to be such an irrelevant concept when applied to God, that it seems silly that he would ever wait to do anything. This genuinely struck me more as cliche that as any sort of useful piece of information. Yet the more I walk with God and actually rely on him the more I find...
“For it is by grace that you have been saved.”
– Paul