Today, my family had the chance to visit the Mill Plain Campus of City Bible Church. We where greeted at the door by the ushers with the question “is this your first time with us?”. I was able to say it was and experience church not as a pastor or even a Christian but [...]
just at verse to start the day
So lip service is given to the power of generational curses that i just wanted to throw in my two cents… well actually my three verses. I just want to say that i am SOO glad that God’s power to restore and heal ins unfathomably great than the enemies power to break and wound us.
Ezekiel [...]
DAYS LIKE THIS ARE WHY I RUN
I’m away speaking in Lebanon Oregon and taking every chance i get to take off for a run. The scenery is second to none in my opinion. There is something serene about running in the untouched forest… directly adjacent to the mountain that is being stripped bare of every standing piece of timber by industrial [...]
SACRED
I was talking to someone about “secular” music the other day. As a youth pastor this is an ongoing conversation. When someone says “secular” they will usually say that as opposed to “Christian” music, but more accurately the opposite of secular isn’t Christian
but sacred. I make this differentiation because I believe the word “Christian” is [...]
SERMON… The Advocate
Luke 13:6-9 (CEV) Jesus then told them this story: A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. One day he went out to pick some figs, but he didn’t find any. 7So he said to the gardener, “For three years I have come looking for figs on this tree, and I haven’t found [...]
THE DAY I TOOK A SELF-PORTRATE
I Don’t know how it all happened…. Wait yes I do. Life had all caught up with me. “no one understands me”.. “no one cares”…. “no one sees how hot I am”. So there i was staring at myself in the mirror with a broken heart in one hand and a cell phone in the [...]
STAFF RETREAT
Its that time of year again. The time where all our staff pastors pack up and head our for our 4 day retreat. This year we are in NYC. Its been 36 hours and we have been to 21 eating establishments and coverer a lot of ground in every conceivable way. Geographically, creatively and every [...]
“SILLY LIBRALS TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS”
I had a conversation with a person that made me really think. This person took the first chance to spout off the standard ignorant liberal talking points. Now let me just say that just because someone has an opposing view point doesn’t mean its ignorant. Its ignorant when, as the word is defined, destitute of [...]
GENERATION CHURCH SERMON – PROCESSED PART 1
1 Peter 2:9-10 (NKJV) But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not [...]
PERCEIVED EXERTION
Dave Scott the legendary triathelete had this to say about assessing perceived exertion during a workout.
My training schedule uses rate of perceived exertion (rpe) as a guide to judge how hard you’re working:
1: Very light (breathing is comfortable).
2: Moderately light (conversation is fluid, and you’re sweating a bit more).
3: Moderate (talking is more difficult, and [...]
