It’s Not The Finish Line

You know by now that I have grown up around the church.  I spent my first few years on this planet as a Youth Group mascot and I loved it.  We went on missions trips.  We had the youth over all the time for sledding, and mud football in the farmer’s field behind my home in McAllisterville, Pa.  They would play baseball and basketball with me, and I grew up watching my father teach these young men and . . . Read More »

Tip of the Iceberg Living

We are in a new series today. It identifies where we are emotionally. An emotional infant, child, adolescent or adult. Let’s get started with the parable Jesus told. 5 “A farmer went out to plant his seed. While he was planting, some seed fell by the road. People walked on the seed, and the birds ate it up. 6 Some seed fell on rock, and when it began to grow, it died because it had no water. 7 . . . Read More »

It’s Profoundly Spiritual

Well today is the finale of the marriage series and I am just going to come right out and say it, this series has been a really big deal.  It has been a big deal to my wife and I in our marriage, and as I have spoken to many of you over the last few weeks I’m realizing that I am not alone in that…this series has been special, and it has shown us so much about . . . Read More »

What Research Tells Us About Marriage

Today, I want to get really practical. I think we can be in church, read 1 Corinthians 13, worship, hear a marriage talk and feel pretty close to our spouse. Then we go home. What do you discover when you try to apply everything you hear about marriage? You discover your spouse is nuts. I don’t mean that in a negative or critical way. More like, they couldn’t be more opposite than you. It’s like they speak an . . . Read More »