The other day we had some guests coming over to our home and the house was just about spotless. I say “just about spotless” because about 30 minute before we expected a crowd of friends I discovered a red spot on the carpet. I vacuumed it a few times and the spot [...]

Hmm. To be honest I don’t think the word Sin-o-meter (hyphenated or otherwise) actually exists. In fact, I reasonably certain that I just made it up. Nonetheless, let’s talk. Let’s actually try and be a bit interactive here.
Let me posit this sin-o-meter concept and get your feedback. Your feedback can be almost anything as long [...]

A few years ago my wife and I went to several stores a day looking for a special wooden train station for my son for his wooden train tracks. It was the one of the few things on his list and it was the one thing he said he wanted more than anything else.
We [...]

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse [...]

Well done is better than well said.
Most people that are followers of Christ do a great job o saying the right thing. A lot of us know how to play the part and know our lines.
When something bad happens, we say, “All we can do is pray.” When something goes right, we say [...]

Hi Church and greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Is it just me or does it seem like nearly everything we undertake in life today is complicated? It’s been like this for a while, hasn’t it? Remember the old VCR’s that were programmable, many still use them and do so successfully…for [...]

The other day I observed a woman at Lowes (grocery store) with what I would guess was a three year old girl in her grocery cart. As they passed the cookie section, the child asked for cookies and her mother told her “no.” The little girl immediately began to whine and fuss, and the [...]

A couple of weeks ago my family went through the drive-thru of our favorite chicken restaurant on the way home from the beach. As a pastor’s family, we try to eat as much chicken as possible and rarely have any leftovers.
As we were approaching our home we saw a man on the side of [...]

Let me borrow your mind for three minutes and ask you to imagine a church
Imagine a church without a steeple where the people are really the church
Imagine a church that isn’t defined by its’ building
Imagine a church doesn’t see the unchurched, and dechurched as the enemy, but as the victim of the enemy
Imagine a church [...]

Tony Campolo once said to his congregation:
“I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a $#!%. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said $#!% than [...]