This week at our Long Point Road 1st Wednesday service, I gave a short talk about a paradigm shift that is helpful in the joy depleting moments in our lives.

The key thought was this: There is life in… Read more

“And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.

And if… Read more

“That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?

Look at the birds. They… Read more

This week I’m doing a message on contentment from Philippians 4:11-13. If you’ve got a minute, can you look at these questions and give me your thoughts in the comment section.

As concise… Read more

“Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 18:3

Last Christmas, my daughter-in-law Jenna came up with a gift that actually lasted longer than the wrapping paper it came in. You know the routine: the kids are super excited about the shiny new toy until its newness wears off… Read more

I don’t like change.

There. I said it. I feel better for having admitted it…but I am strangely disappointed in myself.

I’ve always prided myself on being a change agent. “Let’s do things a new way, don’t limit our options.… Read more

My grandfather once told me, “Son, write everything down.  God will give you a thought and the Devil will steal it from you.”  I was just getting started in ministry and he was just finishing… Read more

I wasn’t born with the highly organized, administrative gene. Some people have it, some people don’t.

I don’t.

If you do, God bless you…we tend to make each other crazy.

Some people make messes, some people don’t.… Read more

Some things I learned on the mountain…

…You see things on the top that you will never see anywhere else.

…God… Read more