Who are you qualified to lead?
"Come on guys, follow me!" - Everett Stalnecker Every year the men from our church take the younger men, the boys, on a three day camping trip. I always look forward to these time. My son Ethan and I have ten years of great memories from...
How do you explain your life?
"We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God" - Francis Chan As followers of Christ we have been called to live the kind of lives that...
“The Danger of Debt”
Here are the notes from the message preached March 4, 2012. There was too much information to get through it all. I trust that it will be a help and a blessing. I Timothy 6:6-10 -Today’s consumer has a total of 13 obligations on record...
“Lessons Learned in Iraq”
As I have listened over the last few days to the reports of the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, I have spent more time than usual thinking of my time there in 2003. I was privileged to have been a part of the First Battalion Fifth...
A Christmas Meeting
Last night I was privileged to be a part of a very important meeting. The mood was serious and each person at the table had an agenda that they were trying to press. Often the job of the meeting moderator, a job that I fulfilled, is to...
An eternal purpose
We all want to live for something that matters. I believe that even though the fast pace of life tends to keep us from thinking too much about the things that "really" matter, in our clearer moments we all know that we have finite...
The restorer of paths to dwell in
It is no secret that we live in a broken world. We live in a world where broken families, broken relationships and even broken churches abound. Whether it is simply the pressures of life, the disappointment of expectations unmet or the...
Picture Time
The holidays are a wonderful time of year. With opportunities to give thanks and celebrate the birth of our Savior, a chance to start fresh in a new year and special family time, there is so much to like. As with anything else though,...
Faith is
How do we define faith? If faith is essential in the life of a person that pleases God as we have seen in Hebrews 11:6, than our understanding of a proper definition of faith is also essential. Fortunately, the Bible not only tells us...
The Work of Faith
From Hebrews 11:6 we have looked at the necessity of faith and the great blessing that is faith. Today, I would like for us to look at the final aspect of this necessary faith that is dealt with in verse 6, "The Work of Faith." Faith is...