Do You Hear That? It’s the Sound of Being Called to Serve
It’s Up to You to Open Your Ears and Listen Carefully So You Do the Right Thing How many Christians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
What’s One Thing Missing from Disaster Response?
More Important, What Do We Do Once We Find It? It’s tornado season here in the mid-west. A few weeks ago, a tornado went through Andover doing a significant amount of damage. I’ve been involved in disaster response through the United Methodist Church for several years. A couple of the bigger ones I experienced were […]
Where Are You Being Lead…and Are You Sure It’s the Right Place?
Sometimes We’re So Confident, Only to Find Out We Missed the Mark This past Sunday we were blessed to have Rev. Bill Brazil filling the pulpit while Pastor Lee is on vacation. His sermon was based on the book, The Other Wise Man, by Henry van Dyke. This story is an addition to and expansion […]
How Do We Stop Being Sucked into the Center of the Vortex?
By Knowing That We’re in One and Not Letting it Happen Life is like a giant whirlpool spinning around at a high rate of speed. It’s constantly working to pull us down, with little hope of ever getting out. This sounds a little “gloom and doom” doesn’t it? That is not my intention. Actually, my […]
No Matter the Circumstances We Need to Give Everything to God
It’s More Than Our Ability That God Uses to Mend Broken Lives…It’s Our Faithfulness We’ve all experienced loss in our lives…some big and some small. The question is, in those times, how do we respond? Where is our focus? Is it on the loss or is it on God? Most of the time we think […]
Trials Will Help You Develop Your Character…If You Will Just Let Them
It Comes Down to Using Challenges as Stepping-Stones, Not Obstacles I’ve written about my truck situation a couple of times over the past few weeks. About how when life happens, it’s up to us to deal with the unplanned chaos. It’s been almost a month since the truck was wrecked. I went through the process […]
If You Want to See God’s Hands in Everything, Put Everything in God’s Hands
This is Something That is Easier Said Than Done We have a plan for what we expect life to be. Then life happens and things don’t work out the way we’d planned. This can leave us feeling disappointed and disheartened. Life is full of the unexpected. The question is…what you’re going to do about it? […]
How Can I Help People Understand What I’m Saying?
It’s Hard to Get Others to See Things from My Perspective This sounds a little self-centered, like my perspective is more important than everyone else’s. That’s not what I mean by “getting others to see things from my perspective”. I’ve been hearing from marketing people for a long time about the difficulty of getting people […]
Are You Standing in God’s Way or Standing in God’s Will?
You Better Get Out of the Way Before You Get Run Over Most people fall in one of two groups…rule keepers or rule breakers. You know which you are. Either of these taken too far can result in standing in God’s way. Rules can be misinterpreted and misunderstood. For example – When a mother returned […]
How Do I Find Focus When Dealing with Unplanned Chaos?
The Unplanned Part Is What I Struggle with the Most I like having a well-planned and organized life. Our level of control in a world with so many moving parts is minimal. Last week I wrote about how when life happens it’s up to us to decide what we’re going to do. The importance of […]