“If you werent afraid of death, or failure, or if you weren’t afraid of rejection, if you were not afraid of humiliation, if you were not afraid of what other people thought about you, if you were not afraid of anything, what would you be doing? What would you do with your life?” – Erwin Mcmanus
This quote just screams out vulnerability and community to me. I know for myself there are times I am afraid to admit my fears or insecurities, but being able …

Those of you who have fathered a child may understand what it feels like to hold your little one in your arms knowing that you haven’t the ability to give him the one thing that would wipe away the tears. I stood there with my boy in my arms as helpless as a fireman trying to explain to a child that he can’t retrieve her favorite pet from the burning house.

THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO.

Our faith community meets in our furniture store.

There’s some advantages and disadvantages to that, but my favorite advantage is that it is undercover.

We have a loose schedule of events and a skeleton time frame that hardly ever gets heeded, but it’s us.

Sometimes things go as scheduled and sometimes they don’t. Tonight they didn’t…

One of the deepest longings in my heart is to be part of a team giving our lives away for a purpose greater than any of us on our best day! Men die daily in service to purposes they perceive to be the greatest on Earth, but…

Video Post from Scott Hunter… and Revelation Song

My heart cries out to be so overwhelmed with His love that I am all but involved with my own life. Work happens, life happens and pretty soon I have lost the heart cry by noon and replaced it with my ever- growing task sheet… click title to read more

I feel less of a man when I am failing to produce results. And today, I feel less of a man! Should it be so? In a culture which values man simply for what he has to offer and what he can produce, it should be so. Those who can offer and produce more are more valuable than those who can’t pull their weight. But what does God say?

Julie is driving and we’re being transported from hospitality to productivity (south to north) in a hunk of metal on wheels propelled by liquid that is extracted from below the surface of the Earth and injected into a plethora of parts designed to interdependently function as a vehicle to speed up time and allow us to pack more stuff into a life that is too short anyway. If you add up all the time that has been spent on building highways, designing engines, molding parts, and making money to fund all of this, has humanity really saved any time?
The idolatry of doing more is an ugly monster indeed.