a pastor's thoughts on faith, family, life & leadership.
We have all witnessed it. We've all done it. The situation is unfolding and then someone kicks UP the volume. Tensions rise. We call these discussions - "heated". Whether it's the person at the airline counter who once was trying to convey their frustration and need, but has now slipped across the line into personal [...]
We launched a new series about this Crazy Little Thing Called Love last weekend. Looking into love, relationships, marriage and more. So much of our lives revolves around love or the pursuit and desire for it. You'll be able to watch my message here I love helping people grow in their relationships because they are [...]
If you listen closely. If you pause for a moment and reflect - you'll notice it. It is something your life shares in common with every piece of music that has ever been recorded down through the dawn of time... It's rhythm. Every song has it. It may not be identical. Every family has it. [...]
Sometimes the busy drive of our days can lull us into avoiding a necessary practice of pausing for a check up. We are reminded when our routine suddenly becomes interrupted as a sickness invades. That nagging cough finally forces us to seek medical attention. The check up we may have put off, now waves to [...]
Water balloons = fun. Until they break. I recently came in from filling balloons and watching my kids begin this ageless game of 'balloon toss'. Remember when you were a kid and you'd fill 'em up and begin to toss them back and forth to one another. With each toss there was this excited anticipation [...]
Do you ever have one of those moments where you're doing one thing, but then sense that there is another level of connection here - maybe a whisper within? This is that. It just won't STOP... We've turned off the valves at the front of the house, back of the house and even on our [...]
Often I write about the intersection of truth and faith, but today I write about a truth that has bolstered my faith in love. I write in the shadow of a decision I made 16 years ago, that changed the trajectory of my life for the better. I'm writing today about someone very special to [...]
