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16 May 2008 0 Comments

Miracles Still Happen

It amazes me what God uses to help people. Sometimes technology, sometimes medicine, sometimes other people. My friend Lindsay Spengler recently experienced something miraculous. After being stuck in bed for about 5-6 years she is now out and about and getting her life back. CBS news recently interviewed her about her recovery. Click here to [...]

8 May 2008 0 Comments

Matt Silver Farewell Video

For those of you who didn’t make it to our farewell party for Matt and Carrie Silver a couple of weeks ago, below is a video of some of Matt’s many humorous moments here at CCV.

29 April 2008 0 Comments

What If You Found $14,000?

My buddy Tom found a bag on the side of the highway with $14,000.00 in it! Check out what happened as reported by Channel 6 ABC: click here to see the video

21 April 2008 0 Comments

Confrontation

I have been thinking a lot about confrontation lately. I spoke about it in a recent sermon, given counsel to a few leaders and volunteers, and wrote about it in a recent post (here). David Foster, author and pastor, recently posted 10 Signs It’s Time To Confront: 1. It’s time to confront when things aren’t [...]

19 March 2008 3 Comments

Privileged

If you arrive a church early on Sundays, many of our services start with a countdown video that we call the 5 minute window. A few minutes into the video below you will see a college student named Alex (when he was baptized). He was one of the founding members of the youth ministry that [...]

7 March 2008 0 Comments

My Friend Lindsay – Please Pray

I have written here about my friend Lindsay Spengler in the past. Her spiritual maturity and strength is quite remarkable. The picture on the left is of her standing next to her Inspiration Wall in Mexico at the beginning of her recovery after being in bed for 5 years. She has been battling RSD (a [...]

22 September 2007 0 Comments

My Friend Andy and Motives

My friend Andy Raatz and his family are missionaries in Moldova. I was a volunteer for him when he was a youth pastor during my time in the Air Force. He and his wife were a great example of Christian marriage to Shelli and I when we were dating. Now it is hard to believe [...]

24 August 2007 0 Comments

Lindsay Made It To Mexico

Those of you who followed my last post about Linsay Spengler should know she made it to Mexico safely. Her dad, Mike, let me know it was a rough trip but she made it. Keep her in your prayers as she is going to be placed in a coma on Sunday. Fox 29 News in [...]

8 August 2007 0 Comments

Does God Ever Use You?

Something kind of cool happened to me this morning. I had a breakfast meeting with an old friend of mine from college. He was actually the RA for the married housing at Valley Forge Christian College (where I finished my ministry degree). During our breakfast we caught up on life. We hadn’t spoken for about [...]

24 March 2007 1 Comment

Guilty Conscience

I almost made a mistake. I am so glad that I followed the Proverb – “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” (Proverbs 15:22) You know how there are times when people really frustrate you, and you want to lay a huge guilt trip on them to get them to [...]