Church Leadership

Loving and Godly

Just because you do the loving and Godly thing doesn’t mean you are loving and Godly. Faith without works and works without faith both miss the mark.

A Little Understanding – Above Ground (Part 2)

The main character trait of a Christ follower/collective of Christ followers that is tied into God and His love through prayer, is their focus on hearing God’s voice instead of telling Him what to say or do. The faith they possess is not a way to get God to give them what they want but instead it’s the basis for trusting Him for everything they need… (more…)

Who Do You Trust?

Our Lives – a mishmash of our ways and God’s ways

Our Desire – 100% God’s ways

Our Need – to trust God and God alone

Our Flaw – we trust ourselves and God finding it difficult to tell the difference

Traditions

We should all take inventory of the practices we have deemed to be imperative as a follower of Christ and as a collective of Christ followers. Traditions have a way of moving from preference to biblical command.

Positive Procrastination Promotes Profound Possibilities

Alliteration aside, this post title should catch your attention. How can procrastination be positive? How can it promote profound possibilities? Isn’t procrastination the disease of the weak willed and chronically unmotivated? We all do it but to suggest adopting it as a way of life, isn’t that unchristian? (more…)

When I grow up I want to be…

…dead! I know it sounds awful and even a bit morbid but it is true. I looked in the mirror after my last haircut and realized that God knowing the number of hairs on my head was getting easier. That being said my follicley challenged head is not my reason for this statement. I noticed recently when I lie down my bosoms fall into my armpits. This is disturbing on two levels. First, gravity is taking its toll as I age. Second, I am a man and until recently I didn’t have bosoms. Still this is not the reason I want to be dead when I grow up. (more…)