Listen to Beyond the Vault Final Edition (Click Here) In a matter of days many of you will be receiving a letter describing the last chapter in our journey at our current location. Since writing the letter, we have some very encouraging news. We hear God’s voice calling us and there is clarity in the …
When I was watching the recent 1st and 2nd round March Madness games, this comercial came on, It was IBM claiming they are building a smarter planet. At first glance I said yeah, that sounds good, but then I caught myself. What is this saying? Why a smarter planet? Do we really want a smarter …
My wife doesn’t play the piano! I say that tongue and cheek but I was thinking about that today at church. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church. Commonplace in our regular weekly worship services was a pianist, organist and minister of music. Usually the pianist or organist was the spouse of the pastor. …
Because someone once told me that Hell was real! I believed and still believe them. The last few days as I drive home, I have been thinking, why does the church strive to identify with the grace of Christ? Then yesterday, it hit me, I remember turning the steering wheel in my truck (I have …
We sure live in a different world. Not really. Let me explain. Do you know what the most popular mobile social networking tool is? If you don’t, then get ready for something that will shake your world the likes you haven’t seen since you could carry your phone in your pocket. The, now mature application, …
I am a bit overwhelmed as of late. I have been doing lots of research, reading, watching and writing on media, ministry, and teens. I have also found a love of the documentary. I just finished watching a trailer for a documentary that disturbs me. Although, SuperSize me, focused on the obesity of America through …
Listening to the radio here on the local pop/rock station I hear a song that is popular come on. Rockstar by Nickelback. In the song there are references to drugs and other things a “rockstar” of superstardom would be tempted with. I sometimes find myself listening to this song but this one day I had …
Over the last couple of weeks supermom and I have been keeping close eyes on a subject that is dear to our hearts….No, not the "economic" crisis we seem to be in, (we’ll talk about that in later posts) but the tragedy of our agency. When seraching for adoption agencies, a couple years …
In the book, Ascent of a Leader, the beginning of chapter 7 is a quote by William James which says this: “Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” I found …
I stayed up last night watching an episode of Raymond. It was the episode where he begins to be more authoritative and get his twin boys to clean their room and he stunk. After some guilting from his wife, parents, and brother he admits that this is hard. He can’t be the "mean" one and …