Room to Grow

Growth is uncomfortable and most of the times down right painful. I remember when I was younger I would have the worst growing pains in my legs. It seemed they always came in the middle of the night. I would be sound asleep and then shot awake by the pain streaking through my bones. I would cry out for my mom to come help me (my wife says I am a momma’s boy – it’s true). I never...

Fill the Aquarium

In a recent staff meeting we discussed an article that was titled “Fishers of Men or Keepers of the Aquarium”.  I, along with the rest of the staff, acknowledged that we need to be fishers of men and focus on what God has called us as a church to do which is to touch our world with the love of Jesus. This phrase has challenged, stretched, and troubled me for the last several weeks as...