Fear and Freedom

In my last post I Am Not I basically just listed a bunch of things that I have been struggling with lately - things that I have been using to define myself. After I wrote it, I hesitated to even post it because there’s something scary about listing your biggest flaws and insecurities on the internet for [...]

Timing Is Everything, Part 2

In my last post, I took a look at the younger in son in the prodigal son story, or Bill as we now know him. I made an observation that if he hadn’t been in such a hurry to run off and live his life, things might have turned out differently.
I find myself struggling with [...]

Timing Is Everything

Pastor Ron preached this past Sunday on the 3 parables in Luke 15. (Or maybe it was the week before. They’re all kinda running together these days.) I guess I didn’t get much sleep the night before, because I was having a tough time focusing. Actually, in all honesty I was having a tough time keeping [...]

Work

This post was inspiried both by this message Pastor Ron preached at church a couple weeks ago and by this post by Ross Middleton.
I realize that there are folks out there, particularly my generation and younger, that simply want everything handed to them without working for it. That, however, has never been my problem. My parents instilled a good work ethic [...]

Read this

I know a lot of you that read my blog have probably already seen this, but for those who haven’t, my friend Clayton just put up one of the best posts I’ve read so far this election season. I highly reccomend it. Click the link below to read it.
Dear Christians who politicked on Facebook, Twitter [...]

The S-Word

My world has been abuzz recently with people talking about the S-Word: singleness. Most of the people that read my blog are probably aware of the whole controversy stirred up by a friend’s post, so I won’t rehash it in great detail here. The basic premise is that some mid to upper 20’s single women [...]

It’s All In Your Head

I am wrapping up a 4 week hiatus from some of my ministry committments. For the last few weeks, I haven’t been singing with the worship team or leading or singing on any sets at IHOP. I felt like I was running myself ragged trying to do too much and never quite succeeding. In the [...]

Nothing Too Small

Continuing my thoughts on Mark Batterson’s In A Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day.
We’re all generally familiar with the notion that nothing is too big or too hard for our God. I passages like Psalm 29 that talk about the power and majesty of God. When I think that the God that created [...]