“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 …

Anxious.  Restless.  Can’t sleep.
I was sitting here tonight with a restless heart.  Don’t know why.  I feel like I need to sleep, but I just didn’t feel ready to put a lid on the journey called today.
So I’ve been sitting… thinking a little.
I downloaded Andrew Peterson’s new single (Purchase Here on iTunes)
After AP’s song finished Andy Gullahorn was next in my iTunes line-up.
These lyrics grabbed that restlessness and tackled it to the ground:
I know I just display my foolish pride
When I try to be an island to myself
You must be …

“The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.” (Matthew 13:44)

This is taken from Brennen’s book, Abba’s Child, pages 116-118 read more by clicking title…

If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is not, cannot even conceive
of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated
fact of the world? Read more by clicking the title above…

When you lose heart you can’t love.
When you lose heart you can’t worship… you can’t serve… Read More… Click on Title above.

Great talk to Westmont College by John Eldredge.  Don’t miss it!

I embraced the practice of transactional friendship! WIIFM – “What’s in it for me?”

In other words, I love other people simply for what they have to offer me or my organization. It’s ugly, but it’s true!

Part of doing church means that we are supposed to be there for each other, to spur each other on, to encourage one another in words and deeds. Unfortunately, that does not…

I found out that the church exists in the NICU at Children’s Hospital in Colorado Springs, not because it was in a building. It was not even in a building as our culture defines church. The church existed because 2 or more followers of Christ were present. ..

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…