Have you ever experienced a storm in your life?
Those times where things just didn’t make sense?
Times where your problems seemed so big and your faith seemed so small?
Times where you felt so swamped and so afraid that you were going to be taken over by the storm?
take heart I think we [...]
Why storms?
Feel like throwing in the towel?
During a Monday night football game between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants, one of the announcers observed that Walter Payton, the Bears’ running back, had accumulated over nine miles in career rushing yardage. The other announcer remarked, “Yeah, and that’s with somebody knocking him down every 4.6 yards!” Walter Payton, the most [...]
Faith…You Gotta have it!
There was a story that I once heard…and I found the story on www.christianchallenge.com..
Back on June 30, 1859, a man by the name of Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He crossed on a 3 inch manila rope stretched 1,100 feet across the falls at a height of 160 feet. Not only that [...]
He Knows
Dear pastor/church leader
JESUS HAS NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU!
You might feel forgotten…alone…abandoned…and maybe even like you once heard the voice of God…but for some reason, can’t hear it now…
You used to feel like you were close to Him…but ministry has taken away your intimacy/excitement/joy, and You feel like the One who called you is [...]
I’m glad I know the Healer!
The parable of the rich man asking Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. We all know how this story goes. We’ve heard it before: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the kingdom of God. Even before Mark tells [...]
Calling all youth leaders!
Let me say this–I LOVE working with teenagers!
It makes me so angry when I hear someone say, “We need to really reach out to our youth–they are the church of tomorrow!”
They are the church of TODAY!
They matter TODAY!
They have struggles TODAY!
They need Jesus TODAY!
And if we don’t reach them TODAY then we may WILL lose [...]
