Holiness Reeducation

Sunday we started our new worship series at DCC focusing on what it means to be made whole by God. For the first couple of weeks we are looking at the idea of spiritual balance as a route to wholeness. The most important part of that balance being intimacy with God. I especially talked about [...]

Having lit the fourth candle of Advent, the moments until Christmas are but few. Only a couple of days remain until we experience the climax of all our preparation. I hope mine/your preparation has been as much spiritual as holiday driven. But in these final days leading up to Christmas our lives are certainly busy [...]

Some times you plant the seed, some times you water the soil, sometimes you do the weeding, and sometimes when you are really privileged you get to bring in the harvest. Those roles are all vitally important in creating a crop. They are all essential for the desired end result to be  achieved.  In the [...]

The secret to great Chili, thoughts on the timing of God, and tough days for virtually every team I root for, all in today’s ramblings… Cooking Chili for Jesus Saturday night our church hosted a Chili Cook Off and Cookie Bake Off to benefit our local food pantry. It was awesome. We had over twenty [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]

What happens when we not only put the cart before the horse, but sometimes put the horse in the cart? That is the question I have been pondering for the past week since my time with Mike Breen and the great folks at 3DM. One of the most thought provoking studies we did was looking [...]

How many of us have ever been part of a church that you can say effectively made disciples who make disciples? I can honestly say that I have never been in such a church. I have been in churches that certainly have engaged in discipleship. I know that I have personally been involved in discipleship [...]

Too much swimming through my mind today to delve too deeply into any of it. So today’s ramblings will be shorter and random, just the way I like it. First things first, here is a video of Mike and I performing Soul Man by the Blues Brothers to close out our worship service yesterday. We [...]

One of the conversations we were having at church the other day was about improving our coffee selection. Our people really enjoy our fellowship time and donuts and coffee are an intricate part of our worship gathering. But evidently the coffee has not been up to standards. It used to be that we had gourmet [...]

No one would hire me to be their pastor without my wife, paintballs still leave welts, and we need to reset our God expectations, all  in this week’s ramblings.. My Wife is Awesome As Gretchen and I celebrate 13 years of marriage today I recognize how incredibly blessed we both are. After 13 years of [...]