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Charge Your Son.

As a father I often wonder if I do enough to impart proper “manhood” to my son. What I don’t want to do is give him definitions of manhood that will hold him back from being a gospel bearer. I don’t want to instill over exaggerated male bravado nor do I want to sit on the cultural ideas that men should fit into certain personas. It can be so overwhelming. I KNOW that I’m not the only ...

Who Does This Sound Like To You?

Alright, here is s simple lesson. This text was written somewhere between 680 - 720 Before Christ. Who does it sound like you? Isaiah 53English Standard Version (ESV) 1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty tha ...

Get In Where You Fit In.

Ephesians 4:7-16 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,     and he gave gifts to men.” 9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far abov ...

The Fixer.

I often think that if there was one thing about me my wife would change, it would have to be my total inability to be empathetic. Sure it might be nice if I consistently hung my clothes back up in the closet too… so maybe there are a few things… I digress. I have always struggled with “feeling” the emotional pains of others. While compassionate and sympathetic, I am simply not the ...

Cast The First Stone.

Late last year I was approached about being an elder at my church. Over the first half of this year I began the process. Through this process I was asked some really tough questions. Honestly, I felt that many of these questions were things that all of us as Christians should be able to answer. In the course of the interviews a conversation arose about dealing with the confrontation o ...