Amazing Grace

We saw the movie Amazing Grace last night. See it. Please. My favorite line of the movie, “I’m the worlds greatest sinner and Christ is the worlds greatest Savior…I hope I got that right. Anyways, see it. An old friend has helped write a book that I hope to get that will only add to [...]

Ash Wednesday

Flew solo tonight leading my first Ash Wednesday service at church. It was a special service in so many ways. The church hadn’t had a Ash Wednesday service for several years. It was an honor to lead this service and to help folks get ready for the Lenten journey we all walk as followers of Jesus. We [...]

Grace in the desert…

My church blog.

Coach

Okay. I caved. Coach K.C. of the Littleleague TBall Astros is in the house. The best part of the night was when Ty looked at another kid, pointed to me and said, “My dad, the coach.” I melted like butter. OF course the older child of mine says, “dad, you don’t know how to coach.” [...]

Perfect

As I’m up right now doing church stuff and printing stuff for worship I come across Mark’ new web site. Just what I needed to remember as I worry about church which is only in a few hours.

Classes I wished seminary offered…

I must say I loved every bit of my seminary education. My theology classes with folks like this and this who I could sit and listen to all day long. After today and the fun I had today in officiating a wedding, these are a few classes I wish seminary had offered;
1. The Missional Theology of [...]

Ministry

Earlier this week I shared that I had a chance to lead someone to Christ. I have to tell you part of the reason I’m blown away was that in my years of serving in the church I’ve witnessed others coming to Jesus, but I’ve never really experienced first hand someone wanting me to pray [...]

Blown away…

I was standing in the greeting line we have at church this morning. Typical Sunday. Preached a sermon on “Onesimus” from Philemon 1. The idea was that the church is a place where God extends the hand of grace to all of God’s children. During the greeting time, someone walked through the line and nudged [...]