Do you read Scripture Offensively or Defensively

Most people would admit if they are playing a sport they would much rather play offense than defense.  It is just more fun to score points than to keep someone else from scoring points.  But in life our tendenacy is to do everything defensively.  When a discussion is about to turn into an argument we get [...]

I am a student minister NOT defined by my student ministry.

Have you met that person?  You know the person I am talking about.  The person that walks up to you and asks, “how’s ministry going,” so that they can size up your ministry against theirs.  They want to know if they are beating you, as if this is a game with winners and losers.  They [...]

Change Part 3 Why the pain is worth it

People will only change when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing.                                                              Ed Stetzer Let me get back to my TV story, from part 1 of this series.  Being very melodramatic let me say that there was pain involved in getting rid of the old TV.  It is like [...]

Change Part 2 Why I love change and how you can to

I can freely admit that I love change.  I grew up in a house where we would move the living room furniture around 2-4 times a year.  Sometimes we moved it out of necessity; while other times we moved it just for something different.  I love change. Living in a smaller community, my wife and [...]

Change Part. 1 Why we don’t like it.

Until about a year and a half ago my wife and I watched TV on a television set she owned in middle school.  The TV was extremely small, only about half the remote buttons worked, and the back of the remote was lost forcing us to use duct tape to hold the circuit on.  For [...]