It's Like Herding Cats

The picture here is of my wife as she leads a group of New Hope's kids and youth last night. Each Wednesday night she begins at 5:30 PM...

The Mission: Love God, Love People, Serve All "This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as ...

We had three little boys come forward Sunday. Awesome display of God's ability to draw people to Himself. Scary thinking about how to do...

Thank God It's Thanksgiving week here, and on a cold afternoon, I was reading Leviticus and trying to keep warm. We've been looking ...

This past Sunday morning, we had three boys come forward during the invitation to publicly profess their faith in Jesus Christ. A few weeks ...

How Do You Pass It On? 21 The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both. 1 John ...

Evangelicals are always reaching forward for success. Always striving, never thriving. This sense of *thriving* always seems just around the...

They call it Discipleship. One writer penned: Discipleship is the intensely personal activity of two or more persons helping each other ex...

It's just an ordinary Sunday. We'll meet at the same old time, in the same old place, and may very well leave the same old people. ...

It's Always Something My friend Randy Mathews and I used to work together almost every day of the week. We were just two of the 66,000 o...

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. Prov 27:9 (NLT) A pastor wears many hats. We are told to pay attenti...

Practice " Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be goo...

So Close But Yet... So Near He was near God's house everyday. He led thousands in worship of the most High God. People looked up to him ...

Recently, on an online forum of pastors - an intimate group - I was led (by what or who I am not sure) to publicly state what I would love ...

Pollen and Preferences This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ough...

Sunday afternoon is naptime around here. Since we do two Sunday services, and I either teach or lead music too. So we crash from 1-3:30. Las...

In Colorado, the newcomers are taking over. All the people who were there before them want to do, is keep things the way they have always be...

Grace - It Just Doesn't Add Up 1 "God's kingdom is like an estate manager who went out early in the morning to hire workers fo...

Leviticus may seem like an odd Bible book to use in evangelism. But not in West Africa, where in April 2005 the first ten chapters were read...

"Accept that your life is abnormal. Nothing about life as a ministry leader—from its emotional toll to relational demands and constant ...