Wow! Another warm, sunny day! I am assuming you are enjoying the weather today as much as I am… although after yesterday’s sermon, I know I shouldn’t make too many assumptions 🙂 I hope as we have been processing through barriers to sharing our faith, you have found yourself challenged...
During the second half of the game last night, there were two commercials that jumped out at me… and several of you! First there was a commercial for Doritos with a fancy dance-off that I could never match. Shortly afterwards there was a commercial for Jeep’s new truck featuring Bill...
So after yesterday’s dissertation on grace, do you feel like an expert yet? No? That’s ok, I don’t either! In some ways we ended yesterday with more questions than we began with as we started to explore the practical applications of God’s grace in our lives. We’ll be spending the...
It’s our annual week of Prayer and Fasting! Each year, we and other BIC churches around the country set aside this first full week of January for a time of reflection and seeking God. I welcome and encourage each of you to join us this Tuesday and Thursday evening at...
This morning for breakfast I had a bowl of cereal. It wasn’t very exciting. To be fair, I could have made many other exhilarating things. I could have fried up some eggs, prepared some bacon, flipped some flapjacks. I could have stopped somewhere on my way into the office and...
It is exciting to come into the church office on a rainy Monday morning and take a quick walk out to the lobby to discover the rapidly expanding pile of gifts being assembled under the tree! And then afterwards to have someone stop by to drop even more items off...
This morning as I was driving the kids to daycare, “The Little Drummer Boy” came on the radio. It’s a song I’ve heard my entire life, one I know by heart. I usually don’t think too much about this particular song…if I’m being honest, it really isn’t one of my...
Did you ever have one of those moments when you were swimming in the ocean and you looked up to realized that you had drifted way down the coastline? That you were no longer where you thought you were? Moments like that in life can be scary. To look up...
On Saturday afternoon, my whole extended family gathered and we did something we haven’t done in over three and a half years—we took a picture. Now, we’ve taken hundreds, if not thousands of pictures over the past years…but not one like this. This was a full family photograph. One with...
It’s fall! Oh wait, now it’s summer again… And now fall again… Here’s a bit of winter for you… And back to fall… The past week or so has been a roller coaster of weather patterns! We just can’t seem to find a season and stay there. Personally, fall...