Monthly Archives: August 2013

It’s Game Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to the local high school football game last night.  I enjoy football.  Someone asked me if I liked college and professional football and I told them I did, but I wasn’t as avid a fan as I used … Continue reading

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What if you actually believed what God said about you?

I believe the God who created the heavens and the seas, who gives birds their ability to fly and the fish their ability to swim, loves me. Continue reading

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Saved by grace through faith

Salvation is not between you and the church, it’s between you and God. Continue reading

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Leaving out some important information

I received a letter for a car show (there sure are a lot of car shows around Mineral County) and the person asked that I put it in the bulletin.  It is typed out ready to go word for word … Continue reading

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82% of unchurched people are somewhat likely to attend church if invited

I can tell you it is difficult to walk into a church uninvited. When so many churches call themselves a family, you never know if you’re really welcome. Continue reading

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We’re having a revival

This morning as I listened to a church worship service from a fellow pastor’s church, he said their church was having a revival soon.  (Let me begin by saying I mean no disrespect to my friend, to ‘revivals’, and those … Continue reading

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The spoke of a wheel

I think we often read past things without thinking about them or really comprehending them.  I think we do it with the Bible all the time.  “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back…” (luke 9:62) … Continue reading

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I miss tent camping…

One of my sisters posted on facebook early this morning that she missed tent camping. Before Diane and I had kids and when I was still young, we would go to Florida for a month or so through the winter … Continue reading

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Caught in an embarrassing position

Last night was our third Wednesday night dinner and devotion.  I love Wednesday nights.  Diane had this idea for dinners on Wednesday nights at our previous appointment at Mason and it morphed into something she never could have imagined.  We … Continue reading

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A means to an end

Diane is going to college.  She knows what she wants to do when she’s done with college, but doesn’t really know what degree to pursue in order to get the kind of training she wants.  Our son Matt, on the … Continue reading

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