This week we talked about name tags in our sermon series titled Love Can. The idea is that we all wear name tags but those name tags don’t have to stick. Actually those name tags aren’t ours to wear. These name tags are false, fake, and do not define us. Continue reading
Life has a tendency to throw us into a tailspin at times. We get so overrun with emotions that we can’t even find center again. Our calendars fill to the point that we don’t even have an extra minute to our day. Demands of life pull us in a million different directions. Our job isn’t exactly what we thought it was going to be. We have to work with people we want to love but who just seem unloveable. Continue reading
Life is full of ups and downs. I’m pretty sure we can all agree to that. Some days it seems like everything is going wrong. Then the next it seems as if we’re King Midas and everything we touch turns to gold (figuratively of course). But the more we experience these ups and downs in life, the harder life becomes. Continue reading
Sometimes we just need to go back a little. Not necessarily to a better time or a time that we even remember but to a different time. A different state of mind. A different way of looking at life, the world, our neighbor and even our churches. Continue reading
Recently someone shared a little about a struggle they’re facing. Their future is bringing new challenges and opportunities. It’s new which means it’s both exciting and scary all at the same time. This person is dealing with what many of us deal with when we face new things. We know the possibilities ahead are immense and wonderful but the fear of the unknown has a tendency to stop us in our tracks. Continue reading
Now I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit of a control freak. I like to feel the steering wheel in my hands. I don’t like to fly because I can’t pilot a plane. When we travel my wife never drives, well unless I’m dealing with one of those migraine can’t see straight kind of headaches but even then I try to drive. I just don’t like to relinquish control very easily. And it’s not just in driving either. Continue reading
I know that sometimes life feels like we’re swimming against the current, running out of energy and all alone. But what if I told you that you were never alone? What if we really believed that God was always with us everywhere we went? Continue reading
Man life can really be monotonous can’t it? I mean seriously we do the same thing every day, and it’s like we just hit repeat every morning. It is way too easy to get stuck in the humdrum stuff of life and forget why we’re really here. Continue reading
We all do it. No one is exempt. But what good does it do? I mean really, what good does it do you to spend that much time worrying and fretting about things that are totally out of your control? Continue reading
Man I have to admit I’ve been running around lately like I’m all that matters. I have to take a minute to confess that sometimes I have a bit of a “god complex.” I don’t mean to do it. It just happens. It happens when I think that things won’t get done if I don’t do them. Continue reading
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