Ministry Blog
A Soaking Summer Rain
It rained tonight in Tulsa. My daughters said, “Mom, we’ve never seen you so excited about…rain.”
What’s Your Secret?
What’s your secret? What has “stronghold” written all over it in your private thought life, relationships, marriage, or ministry? When is the last time you gave the Holy Spirit permission to do a detailed inventory of your motives?
Breaking Busy
Do you find that when you’re talking to some people these days that you’re on a meter of time? That you need to handle the call like a parking meter, hearing that silent clicking of time wasting away, hoping you can get what you’re feeling or thinking or needing from them said quickly enough before the meter runs out? We are too busy.
Empty Promises
What do you do when you know that God told you to do something or that He was going to do something…but it takes days, weeks, months, years, or, gulp, even decades to see it come to fruition?
The Need for Authenticity
It is a proven fact that this generation are unimpressed by facilities or a contrived show. They want something that is real.
The Soundtrack of Life
Have you ever noticed that, while also some of your favorite songs stay with you, songs that irritate you like crazy also get caught in your brain and you can’t hardly shake their annoying tunes throughout your day?
Be our guest! But wait…
Are we, as the Church, guilty of doing the same thing with our “guests”? We polish the church facilities, groom the grounds, make all the grand preparations, and hang out the banner, “Guests Welcomed Here”! But as soon as the guests show up and the unchurched crowd behaves “inappropriately”, we are quick to start in with the complaints.
The Wondrous Cross
The Cross of Christ carries such a powerful force as it is genuinely both gruesome and beautiful.
You’re Invited to the Table!
But I have noticed one specific thing over these 19 years of marriage about when Bridgette cooks: when she calls you to dinner, she wants you there ASAP, if not sooner. Few things rile her like our family’s delay in getting to the table when the food is hot and ready to serve.
Some Assembly Required: Working in Reverse
Often times we stumble across a project that is more tedious than others, one that we wish we could snap a set of magic fingers and the toil of its assembly would swirl into a finished, polished product of success! Tragedy, long-term relationships, parenting, spiritual disciplines, healing from painful experiences…these are among the many projects of life requiring assembly.
