“When God moves in your life, it will be undeniable!” Does that line look familiar? I borrowed it from Pastor John’s “Main Point and Overview”. Thanks Pastor John! If you’ve been reading along this week, you’ve seen a beautiful theme of the undeniable power of Jesus as he heals physical afflictions and spiritually sickness.1 John 3 is such an incredible portion of scripture. When I’m asked the que...  Read More

At some point or another we all wanted something we didn't have. We have all begged our parents for something we thought we needed. Maybe even as adults we bug our spouses for something we think we need. No matter when or what, the things we long for or the things we think we need, are actually a want! I look back on my childhood and can now see how needy I was as a child. I always wanted the late...  Read More

Have you ever had something happen to you and you just couldn't believe it? I think we can all remember a time when something like that has happened, or something happened and no one else believes you. Years ago, at youth group, we used to do what we called the "Impossible Shot". It was to throw a football across the entire gym and make it into the basketball hoop. We would spend a crazy amount of...  Read More

Being in situations where people are applying extreme pressure is difficult. I don’t know if you watch any of those cop shows like “Law and Order”, but sometimes you see them put people under lights and grill them, looking to create a situation where people will crack under the pressure. It can happen in the workplace too. People can put peer pressure on you to where you feel intimidated by the si...  Read More

“Ahh… you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” – Bane (The Dark Knight Rises)Darkness. That was all this blind beggar had ever known, he was born in it. He had no conception of colors, red, yellow, black, or white, the vivid water colored picture of a s...  Read More

Over the years, I have learned a valuable lesson: first impressions do NOT tell the entire story. When I was in my first church as a youth pastor, my wife and I experienced some trauma. The pastor, while he loved Jesus, was very legalistic and close-minded. His wife was even worse. Keep in mind that Tami and I were new to the ministry. We were in our early-20s, and we had literally no experience o...  Read More