Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I just walked out to the sanctuary and saw how Garry Barton had decorated it with a patriotic theme to go with the 4th of July. It looks great!
But I immediately thought of all the people in our society who are a bit negative about America. They would never wave an American flag, never sport [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a strange, but wonderful season for myself, our family, and Grace Fellowship as a whole. Debbie and I consider ourselves among the most blessed people on the planet. Truly! It would take pages even to scratch the surface were I to list the blessings in our lives. Every day is Thanksgiving Day at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
There was a youth minister in Texas who loved his Irish Setter. I mean he loved this dog! He was so devoted to the dog that when the dog had to go to the animal hospital, the youth minister took his pillow, went to the animal hospital and spent the night in the kennel with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, my family and I viewed a video at home about flight #93, the United Airlines flight that was hi-jacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001 and eventually crashed in a field killing everyone on board. Because of the brave actions of the passengers, flight #93 was the only plane hi-jacked that day that did [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
In roughly 51 AD Paul made the following statement about himself in 1 Corinthians 15:9 “I am the least of all the apostles.” To me, that statement reflects humility. As he looks around at the other apostles he concludes “I am the least.”
Approximately 10 years later in about 61 AD Paul writes the following statement: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We do not pray because we really don’t think it important enough.
What do you think? Agree? Or, disagree?
As I think of my own deficient prayer life and the dearth of it I see in others, this is my only logical conclusion. I do not say it with a pious, high brow attitude. I simply state [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Prayer is the most powerful act in which a true Christ-follower can engage. Do you believe that statement? Or is it just the kind of rhetoric a preacher would use?My sense is that there are very few people, at least in the western world, who really think of prayer as a powerful activity. It is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Socrates once said, “The truth is in the mean.” By that he meant that the truth is often found only by holding two things in tension. The best path is often between the two extremes. For instance, good parenting is keeping your balance between being too strict on one hand, or being overly lenient on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This weekend at Grace Fellowship we are talking about water baptism. Most of the people who attend Grace were baptized as infants. Their parents made that choice for them. Yet, we encourage people who have consciously chosen to put their faith in Christ to be baptized by immersion, whether they have ever been baptized before [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some time ago an inquiring photographer stopped six people on the streets of New York and asked them this question: “What is the most important event in history?” He got some interesting answers. Someone said that1) They thought the most important event in history was the settlement of Jamestown by the English.
2) Someone [...]
