PSALM 121 This Psalm has been referred to as the “Travelers Psalm” used to bless those going on a journey. 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he…
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We Need Church…
If you are a Christian, nothing says you believe God is in control more than what you do with your time and money. When you choose to prioritize the church over sports for your kids you reject the over hyped American system that tells you, you have to sacrifice everything to the gods of elite…
Teaching Children How To Lose
We live in a “winning” culture. We love winners. We worship winners. We want to be friends with winners. We follow winners on twitter. We want to know how winners train. Eat. Sleep. Live. In a way we worship winners. Many people think winning is part of the fabric that makes America great. It’s like…
Help Your Kids Deal Biblically With Criticism
It is bound to happen. Any day, your once naive innocent little snow flake is going to come home from school, practice, a play date or from a family reunion with a broken heart. Their eyes will be opened to the meanness of words. Someone said something critical about them and it hurt. You’re fat….
The Evolution of Preaching
Former Oxford professor, Dr. Kadish Kandiah wrote recently why preaching is dead. He lists six compelling reasons why preaching should be, if not already, dead. However, as I read through his points I couldn’t help but to think that preaching isn’t dead, but it may need to evolve, again. You see, preaching has always…
Update: One Year In Steamboat Springs
Today (February 11th) we celebrate one year in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. On this day we finished our journey from Houston, Texas, a state I had lived in most my life, to the mountains of north western, Colorado. Two days earlier we loaded up two massive uhauls, a trailer and an SUV with all our stuff…
I Love Jesus But Not His Girlfriend: Trying Church Again
To Purchase “I Love Jesus but Not His Girlfriend”: Click Here Depending on what has been done to you, forgiving the church is going to cost a lot. It will be hard. But you have a Savior, whose Spirit lives inside you, and he can give you the strength and faith to pull it off. How…
Jesus & Politics: The Environment
The environment is playing a significant role in this presidential election. Below is a graph from Business Insider on how the candidates view the issues regarding creation. Clinton is holding to the Democrat standard position with high governmental regulation on industry to enforce environmental standards. On the other hand, Trump is holding a…
Jesus and Politics
This Sunday, October 2nd, I am starting a new series on Jesus and Politics. This series is an attempt to insert a Biblical voice into the current political narrative around key issues. This series is not going to intentionally endorse a candidate, position or party. However, Christians should know what their faith teaches about current…
The Death of Vision (Statements)
We don’t have a vision a statement. Crazy. I know. When I was a student pastor in the late 90’s I read the book, Purpose Driven Youth Ministry. I grew up going to an Episcopal church that didn’t have much of a youth ministry. So I didn’t have a clue how to do youth ministry….
The Submissive Wife
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. We live in culture that is opposed to the Biblical concept of the submissive wife. Usually people justify their objection to the submissive wife by saying the Bible was written during a time when women like being submissive. I guess people who want…
Apologetic Preaching
I once heard one of my favorite preachers, Louie Giglio say, “preaching is a craft.” What he meant was we should not all sound like whoever is famous at the time. I think it was Rick Warren back then, now it would be Matt Chandler. Anyways, it’s a good point that young preachers should spend…
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