What a busy weekend!   It all started with our One Prayer Community Service Project.  Almost 200 volunteers from 6 or more churches showed up to help the 10 Auburn City Schools.  My family worked at Cary Woods Elementary and then moved over to Dean Road (where Sonja teaches) and joined the fun there!  Yes, [...]

I was reading Mark Batterson's blog this morning and it really resonated with me because I've been reading and studying 2 Timothy and moving very slowly through the passages and I actually got hung up on the one that Batterson mentions in his blog- 2 Tim 2:15.  I camped out there for a while and [...]

I'm getting all pumped up about this Saturday.  We are coming together with other One Prayer churches in Auburn to impact the community.  To be more specific, we are going to be working with our public schools to do some landscaping and general clean up/spruce up around the schools.  Auburn City Schools have a great [...]

Yesterday was BLAZING HOT in Auburn.  I walked outside to talk to our greeters and just about passed out from the heat.  Those guys are awesome to be able to stand out in the heat to be the first friendly face guests and attenders see.   Great conversations with some first time guests yesterday.    [...]

More faulty information about God swirls around us today than ever before. No wonder so many followers of Christ are unsure of what they really believe in the face of the new spiritual openness attempting to alter unchanging truth. For centuries the church has taught and guarded the core Christian beliefs that make up the [...]

I was honored to take part in a meeting at our state denominational office that included church planters, missionaries, associational mission directors, and pastors as well as the head honcho of our state convention, Dr Rick Lance.  It was an awesome meeting that was full of healthy discussion and questions about how we can raise [...]

Ever so often publishers send me books to review and blog  about.  I used to say yes to most of them but it got to where I couldn't read everything and honestly, the books didn't captivate my attention.   But recently I had a chance to read Jud Wilhite's new book, Eyes Wide Open.  Jud [...]

This weekend was the first weekend I've had off from teaching since October.  I'm not proud of that.  One Prayer came along at just the right time for me because I didn't realize how tired I was mentally.  When I let myself get that way, the level of creativity goes way down.  Watching some of [...]

7.  Romans 8:31– What shall we say about such wonderful things as these.  If God is for us, who can ever be against us? I need to be reminded that God is FOR ME… He's my biggest supporter, no one wants me to "make it" more than He does.  He's affirming, encouraging, correcting, disciplining, instructing [...]

4.  Ephesians 2:10– For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago I love this verse because it reminds us who we are– His Masterpiece.  He is the artist and our lives are the canvas.  He created us for [...]