Avoiding The Comparing & Competing With Others Trap

This fall we are in an incredibly important conversation talking about the most important and ignored area of our lives, we are talking about our soul.  It’s been a journey that started by establishing something very important.  We are spiritual beings with a soul.  Our soul is what gives us life, it is what makes you, you.  This makes our souls so important, and we must care for it.  If we do, it becomes the source of life and . . . Read More »

Are You Experiencing The Overwhelming Victory That is Yours Through Jesus?

It’s Easter Sunday, which is a day of celebration.  It’s often a busy day of family get-togethers, Easter baskets, and Easter Egg Hunts.  For many, it’s a day to dress a little nicer to go to church, and for some, it’s a tradition to go to church on bigger holidays like Christmas and Easter.  So, for many inside their churches, it’s an exciting day with visitors and more attendance and energy around the church services.  And all this . . . Read More »

Redeemed & Forgiven Series Kick Off – Understanding Grace

Today we start our big fall series Redeemed and Forgiven.  As Ken and I built this series I just kept getting more excited, because we are going to be exploring what it truly means to live out a life in Christ.  We want to talk about what it could look like to live a life that is truly redeemed and forgiven and most importantly how we can actually live like we are redeemed and forgiven…do you see why . . . Read More »

Don’t Be That Guy, You Won’t Find Joy

This December we talked about joy.  We said joy is different than happiness.  Happiness is what happens to us.  It’s temporary, it’s external.  Joy is a decision we make that says, ‘God is in control and I can relax in that.’  That means I can have an awful day but it can’t steal my joy in the reality that God loves me and has freed me. We walked through the Christmas story and talked about the things that . . . Read More »

Everyone Love’s The Presents Right?

So it’s Christmas time, and frankly outside of The Grinch, and Scrooge most people really love this time of year.  For some it’s the decorations, for others it’s the time with family and friends.  For some it’s the food, and for others like my wife it’s the Christmas music…but it’s pretty safe to say everyone loves the presents.  My kids are always excited about the gifts.  My son Trey has been working on his Christmas list since like . . . Read More »

Why Fuss At All? – Jesus

This past summer, we got a dog. I like to refer to her as a nine pound pooper. My family likes to call her Daisy. I was against getting the dog, and of course, the family of women I live with, was all for it. My daughter helped me by creating a chart. The chart showed me that if we buy the dog, over time, my happiness scale would go up. It was a very well done chart, . . . Read More »

What Are You Willing To Do?

So today we are wrapping up our series on joy, and if you think about where all this series has gone you may have an idea of where we are headed today.  We started with trying to understand what joy is and what joy is not.  We learned where joy is found.  It’s found in God.  We learned how Sabbath rest helps us connect to the source of joy which is God.  We looked at joy in our . . . Read More »

Too Busy Building It To Complain About It

The reason we are talking about Joy is simple. We want you to have it. We want you to have Joy. We defined what we are talking about. It’s not temporary happiness that can be taken from you, no, we are talking about long term joy that can’t be taken from you. The second reason we are talking about this is because it is a defining marker of being a disciple of Christ. Scripture says, …for the joy . . . Read More »