I ran across this in some old notes on a talk I gave about character, it messed me up a little this morning: We choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices. Whether to cop out or dig out of a hard situation. Whether to bend truth or stand under the weight [...]
“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure He is.”John Piper
I always seem to have a lot of creative irons in the fire (as most of us creative’s do), tons of projects, ideas, dreams and aspirations floating around. Some get created, some don’t. Most get shoved under the rug until time presents itself or it burns a hole through your soul to the point that [...]
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free: which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people; except Christians, ever imagine they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads [...]
God is so crazy… in a good way. I got an email last week from a church in Peoria, Illinois that was inspired by our Faith Stimulus to do one in their community. How awesome is that, that this small act that we made is still going strong. Northwoods Community Church gave $60,000 to their [...]
Last weekend we started a new series with 1855 other churches around the globe called One Prayer. The concept is simple, we’re all standing together to finish the statement: God is ______. So far we’ve heard two amazing messages, God is Love by Craig Groeschel & God is Good by our Pastor, Jerry Taylor. In [...]
A few weekends back we made a small gesture to the people of our community, and the people of our church. It’s almost unbelievable the attention this act has gotten, but really its just one of many acts of giving from Bay. The ‘Faith Stimulus,’ as its been dubbed by the media, was a simple [...]
Its amazing how a new perspective can change everything. Anytime Bella pitches a little toddler tantrum (which is almost never mind you – ha), she does the typical squeal, kicking, and of course the gymnast-like back bend. The last few times we’ve had this kind of quality time together and she gets to the part [...]
I finally got back into Crazy Love by Francis Chan, and wow is this book great. It’s really stretching how and what I believe. At times I feel like he’s more Jackie than Francis Chan and he’s picked up some random object and is kicking my butt with it. In chapter 6 his random object [...]
I love the lyrics of this Sanctus Real song. Its called Sing. It’s been playing over and over in my head lately, so I thought I’d share’m with ya. (also, I think this would make a killer “theme song” for next years One Prayer series) Can we get back to where we started When creation [...]
We just started a new series called Christmas Stories. It’s about the smaller stories of Christmas that are somehow interwoven in The Christmas Story, and how miraculously all Christmas stories always come back to the ultimate one. This past weekend we looked at Giving and we used the story of the Little Drummer Boy as [...]
Meet Sydney Jane. This little girl won a big prize at our Kids Krusade back in October. And in the spirit of giving, she sold it and used the money to buy bikes for a few kids in our community through MCBC. Here’s her story… I wish we were all a little more like Sydney Jane. [...]
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