God deserves our worship

During the worship time of our staff devotions, my friend Brad shared for a moment about how when he woke up he was not looking forward to leading worship this morning.  The words of the song he led us in brought about a change in his attitude though.  God wants us to...

I broke my rss

Oops.  Apparently when I was making some site adjustments this past week, I broke the link between my site and FeedBurner.  The good news is that everything is fixed again.  If you still aren’t receiving the feed, check that your rss reader is pointing to...

service

Serving others is something I get stuck on.  It’s not that I don’t want to serve other or that I don’t do it, but that I often feel like I don’t have the time to do enough.  I see friends who work “normal” jobs that use their free...

picture of grace

“Mercy doesn’t care what you’ve done.”  If that’s not a perfect picture of God’s grace, I don’t know what is.  You’re failures don’t void His mercy in your life, and your greatest successes can never earn it.  I...

supplementary or necessary

The difference between supplementary and necessary things is time.  If you think about it, most of the things that we feel are necessary today were nothing more than impractical embellishments not all that long ago.  Before that, chances are they didn’t even...

trick or treat

I heard this week that Halloween has become one of the biggest holidays in America, second only to Christmas.  What is the big deal about October 31 that gets everyone so hyped up?  Sure, there’s a ton of candy, but there is more to this time of year than...