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16 March 2009 1 Comment

Who Knows The Condition Of Your Soul?

Here are a few points that I believe are so important to remember from church this Sunday. We were reminded about the mission of our church and that it has two parts: 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make [...]

11 March 2009 0 Comments

Can You Control Your Happiness?

The older guy in this video has some interesting advice. Pretend that it is not a Coke commercial and answer this question: How much control do you believe you have over your own happiness?

7 October 2008 2 Comments

Christianity – by an Atheist

I recently ran across the video below and found this Atheist’s explanation of Christianity quite interesting. After watching it, what are your thoughts?

3 October 2008 1 Comment

Cancer and Faith

October is breast cancer awareness month and I am sure I will be seeing a ton of pink over the next few weeks. I know what it is like to be under emotional stress as a parent, especially when you know your kid is suffering. However, I don’t know what it is like to be [...]

29 August 2008 0 Comments

Do You Love Your Work?

Part of maintaining long term employment is loving what you do. In ministry it can be challenging. The average pastor remains at a given church between 3-5 years and while I was doing a Small Group Workshop in New Jersey last week I heard that the average Youth Pastor only sticks around for 19 months! [...]

26 August 2008 0 Comments

Friendships, Future Ministry, and God’s Plan

I got to catch up with some old friends this past Sunday. Harry and Dee Riggs came to visit CCV after dropping their daughter off to college this weekend. It was great to see them again and I took the time as an opportunity to catch up. I thoroughly enjoyed having their family attend our [...]

16 August 2008 0 Comments

Healthy Awareness

My friend Andy is a missionary in Muldova and recently wrote a post that made me think about living with a greater sense of awareness. I need to be more aware of my family, my coworkers, our volunteers, and people in our community that we are called to serve. Here is what Andy recently wrote: [...]

9 August 2008 3 Comments

The Four Critical Parts To Any Plan

I am sitting out on my Mother-in-law’s deck in Montana reflecting and resting after our very intense summer at CCV. Before coming up here to visit Shelli’s family my parents came for a visit the weekend before and my Dad took me out for breakfast. I don’t know if my Dad knows how much those [...]

5 August 2008 0 Comments

Ten Life Lessons

I landed on a blog post that I thought was great the other day. I love finding great stuff like this as I browse the web. The post is by Steve Roesler and his blog is called All Things Workplace and the post is 10 things he has learned from business and consulting. 1. You [...]

1 August 2008 0 Comments

Billy Graham on Evil, Poverty, and Death

Billy Graham spoke at the TED conference in 1998. The speech below is based upon three issues David wrote about in the Psalms. Graham challenged those that attended to spend more time examining themselves and exploring these issues.