The truth is that I wouldn’t want to do something that didn’t require me to be all in. I would hate to drudge through life feeling as if there were no purpose or passion. Serving in a field that I love and serving in a place that I love afford me the opportunity to do something that most only dream of: to be in love with my work.
Can I confess something to you? Lately, I feel as if I can’t pray enough, that no amount of time talking to the Lord is going to be enough. My heart has been yearning for more and more time. I find that during this season all I can do is pray and pray and pray.
I LOVE a full life, boredom and I don’t get along well at all. So, having a full life is critical to keeping healthy peace of mind for me. Now, not everyone can handle my schedule, nor would everyone want to, but for me it is perfectly full.
For the longest time I would have said that a small group is the best way to bring discipleship into the church. Something recently has changed my mind on that and has drastically shifted my thinking on the purpose of a small group.
Why does God want me to work on refining myself?
Why would God care what I do during Lent?
Why is all of this important?
Marriage is the act of making impossible things possible, and ordinary things extraordinary. God gives us life-long partners so that we can practice the love that He has for us, the miraculous love, the legendary love - the love that would be out of reach on our own.
What wheel in your life needs attention?
Mind?
Body?
Spirit?
I’m learning that the most freeing thing I can do for myself is to make a mission statement. These seemingly simple statements have the power to liberate even the hardest choice. A mission statement is a filter that breaks the chains of disagreement, discord and ambiguity.
When I started at Centerville UMC, I got some great advice from a bunch of friends who are pastors. I took the parts of their ideas that I liked the best and turned them into an idea that is going to change our church for the foreseeable future.
What do you do when someone has given you something you can never repay?
What do you say to people who have sacrificed so much of their time?
How can you ever thank someone enough?