Tomorrow our team of 29 will leave for Brazil. We will be working with the Victory church in Rio for the next 10 days. Please pray for our safe travels, and more importantly, pray that lives will be touched by God. Ask God for an outpouring of His Spirit and that we can be His [...]

Last Sunday I had the honor and privilege of sharing the pulpit with our pulpit minister, Patrick Mead. Together Patrick and I presented a fundamental paradigm shift in how ministry to youth and their families is done. The lesson was entitled “Re-imagining the Church as a Village.” While this concept has been around for several [...]

TODAY’S READING: 2 Samuel 12:1-14
Have you ever been driving down the road and when you go to switch lanes you begin to move over and you hear someone honk their horn? When you look again there is a car in the lane you were moving into. Most of us who drive understand there is a [...]

TODAY’S READING: 1 Samuel 18:1-16
There are all kinds of leadership training classes and seminars. You can find a host of books on how to be a leader. But we see David living out what makes an effective leader for God. It’s not about seminars, books, or training sessions. Yes, those can all be helpful. But [...]

TODAY’S READING: 1 Samuel 17:32-51
This story brings so many questions to my mind. Here are a few for starters…
Why do we often fail look at where we have been and see what God has prepared us for?
Why do we often try so hard to be something God didn’t design us to be?
Why do we often [...]

TODAY’S READING: 1 Samuel 16:1-13
We live in a society that is all about looks. If you doubt this, look around when you are in line at the grocery story. There are magazines all over with attractive people on the covers and 10 ways to look better on the inside. If that doesn’t convince you, tune [...]

TODAY’S READING: Philippians 4:4-20
People today seek peace and comfort in so many places. Think about ome of the industries that have blossomed in recent years. Restaurants. Movies. Spas. Sports. Alcohol. Television. Vacation homes. Tobacco. Internet pornography. Recreational drug use.
Most people would agree that not all of these things are necessarily evil. But at the same [...]

I worked on a farm for two summers in 1984 and 1985. I remember getting up around five most mornings to get to the fields and get to work. At $1.50 an hour, I wasn’t getting rich, but it gave me a little money.
Anyway, one of my jobs on the farm was to walk through [...]