Holiness Reeducation

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 [...]

It is hard to believe that August is already upon us. With the flipping of the calendar to August the outlook changes significantly. By the end of the month all the summer vacations will be complete, the kids will be back in school, and football will be upon us. So today’s ramblings are dedicated to [...]

Easter is the easiest and most difficult day to preach. Obviously Easter is an amazing day to be able to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The atmosphere is wonderful because the church is full and people are hopped up on sugar because they have been eating peeps all morning. But preaching on Easter is difficult [...]

as From John 1, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” The great mystery of Jesus for me has always been that he never hesitated to call sin what [...]