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Follow up to Favorite Love Song

In preparation for the sermon on Sunday, I asked the question on this blog, “What is your favorite love song?” There were so many great responses! We heard of another church that put together a whole bunch of love songs, made a fun medley out of it, and we played the video during the sermon.Continue reading “Follow up to Favorite Love Song”

What is your favorite love song?

I’m excited because tomorrow we start a new teaching series on the Fruit of the Spirit. Last week at Vacation Bible School we studied the Fruit of the Spirit, so we thought it would be cool to keep the study going. First up is love! Love is all over our culture. This afternoon, if youContinue reading “What is your favorite love song?”

Prayer and the Spirit World

Tomorrow we finish our study of Daniel. What a life that guy lived! For the past couple months, one of the postures we have seen Daniel take, time and time again, is that of kneeling in prayer. Daniel is a Jedi master of prayer. We’ll look at chapters 9 and 10, which play this outContinue reading “Prayer and the Spirit World”

Dreams and Visions

I admittedly gave Phil Bartelt a tough assignment this weekend. Phil is preaching at Faith Church because I was at Dads-n-Lads camp with my son Jared at Twin Pines for the better part of the week. Phil is preaching on four chapters in Daniel. 7, 8, 11, 12. Check them out, and you’ll see whyContinue reading “Dreams and Visions”

Civil Disobedience

Maybe you had to read Thoreau’s paper on Civil Disobedience in high school or college. It is a transcendentalist classic work of American literature. Here is a brief summary. Have you ever practiced civil disobedience? I’ve heard of people who rationalize not paying taxes. I’ve heard of people who try to pay their electric billContinue reading “Civil Disobedience”

How do you feel about job evaluations?

It is summertime, and among many other things we do every summer at Faith Church (like the 4th of July picnic at Long’s Park, VBS and summer camp at Twin Pines), we also do staff evaluations. Usually I bring along a ministry volunteer that serves with the particular staff member, and we talk with themContinue reading “How do you feel about job evaluations?”

Are you changing?

Have you become a different person in the last year? How about in the last five years? For those of you who have lived a bit longer, are you different now from what you were 30, 40, or 50 years ago? We were watching videotapes this past week of our family 13 years ago. SomeContinue reading “Are you changing?”

Church is a business?

I ordered a book today. One of my pastoral friends has highly recommended it, and it can’t come soon enough. Why? I get so freaking frustrated because I am running a business, the success of which is measured by numbers. Those numbers are decreasing. That gets me upset, even though I know that Jesus isContinue reading “Church is a business?”

Nehemiah, Brother Lawrence & Conversing with God all day long

Yesterday we studied the OT Hero, Nehemiah. We saw that he was a man of prayer. In fact, it seems like most of the book of Nehemiah is a prayer journal. As we read the story of his passion to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem, little prayers are sprinkled throughout, personal prayers from Nehemiah’s heartContinue reading “Nehemiah, Brother Lawrence & Conversing with God all day long”

Does prayer matter?

I received a piece of communication this week that told the story of a friend’s urgent prayer request to God. Interestingly the very thing that my friend asked God to stop from happening…ended up happening. As a result the last thing my friend said to me was, “What is the point?” Good question. I appreciateContinue reading “Does prayer matter?”