Fully Human

The familiar scripture says in 1 Corinthians 5:17 (GWT) “Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.”  So the question is, is that really the case?  Are we a new creation as believers in Jesus here on earth or only in heaven?  What makes us new?  What does new creation look like? When God...

My Legalistic Wife

Only 1 week until the due date of our second child, Asher and it’s been exciting.  The last days are filled with extreme anticipation knowing it could be any day.  Amanda commented the other day that she couldn’t wait to have a whole soda and it made me think about her extreme commitment to the do’s and dont’s of pregnancy. Amanda will not drink regular coffee, or eat hot dogs,...

Why Didn’t Jesus Write a Book?

I guess one could make the argument right off the top that Jesus did write the Bible.  The Bible is the inspired word of God (1 Timothy 3:16), Jesus was the Word made flesh (John 1:1), but what I’m talking about is the fact that he doesn’t take time out in his 3 and a half year ministry-career to write a particular book, and have it published with his name as the author. Yesterday morning...

Seeing God through Miles

Miles Isaiah Foster was born on December 17, 2008.  Miles is Latin for “soldier” and Isaiah is Hebrew for “the salvation of God.”  So we have a little soldier for the salvation of God, and soldier may be very accurate with all the yelling and war cries, the running and jumping off furniture, but has yet...

Professing Christians vs. Following Disciples

Follow – go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead); move or travel behind; go along (a route or path) Everybody is following something, whether it be TV shows, a newspaper column, sports teams, or blogs.  People follow people with the help of Facebook and Twitter.  For some reason we care what other people are doing.  It’s interesting to us that a celebrity is having a...

Reminders to Remember

I think the older you get the more you have to remember and the easier it is to forget.  When my wife asks me to help her remember something, I normally laugh to myself because I know there is no way I’m going to remember. Anything specific I want to really remember must be written down on the calendar in my phone… And then I have to set a reminder to remind me to remember.  So,...

Who Are We, Really?

BEWARE…The following is post from my wife, Amanda, I really think you’ll enjoy it! “You don’t have to be a millionaire to look like one.”  I don’t know how many times I’ve heard things like that and thought, “oh that’s nice, that they are giving the rest of us the opportunity to have the finer things.”  Appearance matters so much in this day and age.  We work hard,...

Miami Road Trip Gone Bad

My wife and I, with our six month old son in the back seat, sat on the side of the road terrified, in shock.  Neither of us could say a word. We just sat there, realizing that what just happened, could have led to an extremely devastating moment. It was July 7, 2009 and we were on a road trip from Bentonville, AR to Miami, FL.  We were traveling on interstate 75 just inside the Florida boarder...

Good Friday for Bad People

Romans 5:8, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” He died for sinners!  His love is clearly seen in that He carried the sin of the world, the sin of everyone in the past that set up idols and called out to other gods, even after they had seen Him perform miracle after miracle. The sin of all the religious leaders that mocked Him, spit in and...

A New View on Worship

Normally we think of worship as being the slow songs during the praise and worship time during a church service.  We do “worship” to prepare ourselves for the preaching.  While I totally agree that it is an aspect of worship it’s certainly not what worship is at its core.  A few things I know about worship:  Defining Worship - If I had to define worship in my own words it would simply...