Often we think about tithing and offering and are told to bring our best to the Lord. Our best is often defined as 10% of our pay check and then whatever else we can offer above and beyond. We are also told to sacrifice with special love offerings to the Lord! All of these things […]
Read More Bring only your bestI am writing this to anyone who currently feels like they are abandoned by God or struggling with those feelings. Please know you will get those days. There are times when we feel alone physically and spiritually. We feel lost and afraid and abandoned. There are also times when we feel spiritually alone like God […]
Read More Feeling abandoned by God?You can’t be an instrument of His peace to this world if you are constantly complaining about what you don’t have or what you can’t do. True instruments of His peace would be content where they are as God has placed them. Not content in the sense that you don’t look to improve or grow, […]
Read More Instruments of peace(Originally written on May 21, 2010, this was to help me process the struggles of leadership and being an example to others.) Often times I talk with pastors and lay leaders in the church and one of the biggest stress we face is our inability to allow ourselves to be human and fraile. Our leadership […]
Read More The humanity of spiritual leadersShame on us for making our pastor constantly nurse us with milk! We need to be out developing disciples not sitting in the church just waiting for our next sip of milk! God is not pleased! We have the opportunity to finally get away from the milk and get into the meat. How dare you […]
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