Praying for a miracle

If I were my friends Julie and Tony I’m not sure how I would be doing if I were given two months to live. I can’t imagine what Tony must be going through knowing that his wife, best friend, and mother of his children has been given no hope of living. The wind has been [...]

Thy Grace is Sufficient: I Don’t Understand This

(Julie and Tony’s family)
Thy Grace is Sufficient: I Don’t Understand This

Our Friend Julie and Tony…

Read my friend Steve Norris’ blog about our friends Julie and Tony. Please pray for our dear friend Julie. Julie is someone I served with in the youth and young adult ministries at the Hollywood Presbyterian Church several years ago. Pray for her husband Tony and her most beautiful children. She has struggled with cancer [...]

When the past meets the present…

Does the past ever meet the present? I’m almost positive there are things in my life that have happened to me for whatever reasons that pop up in other places in my life and in my ministry as a young pastor. Good and bad habits. Past sins that haunt me. Experiences as a child that [...]

Post Youth Sunday…

What a day. A chance to sit in the presence of friends and families of our children and students. The main emphasis of the services today were the reports and reflections of our youth on their recent Mexico Mission trip back in March. The Word was proclaimed. Good News of Gods love was made loud [...]

“Help for the Hurried Home”

There is a mens Bible study and small group at church that I’m involved with and one of the members recently suggested a book by Tim Kimmel called, “Little House on the Freeway.” I don’t know about you but it seems that there is no time to breathe the breath of God while in the [...]

I only pray it never

I only pray it never gets to this… 

The Best Day Of The Year!!!

This Sunday our youth at church get the chance to do what most youth Sundays look like in most churches who freely give up a normal typical Sunday worship service. Each of the youth (Children included) get to do everything us pastor dudes and chicks do. We pastors get a break from being the worship [...]

Preaching as an act of intimacy

What if preachers practiced the act of just showing up. What if they treated the proclamation of the Gospel as an act of intimacy with the Lord?
“I simply stood up, read a passage of Scripture, and talked about what God was saying through that passage and how I was trying to live it out. It [...]

Preaching Class 101 (Jim Rome Style)

I don’t know if some of you listen to sports talk shows. The only show I’ve kept up with over the years I have to confess is the Jim Rome Show. While listening to the show today I had flash backs from my preaching classes from seminary. A pastor calls into the show from Littleton, [...]