Be Care Full!

Lately, many of my friends and family have come up against challenges in their lives that have thrown them for a loop.  I would say in many cases a downward spiral.   The challenges could be from a work situation, a personal health scare, marriage crisis, kid challenge, money, friend or…

For some reason, the month of August is just flat out hard for me and my family.  It’s hard schedule-wise, work-wise, and financially.  There’s ministry ramp up time, back to school prep, juggling schedules, higher utility bills and overall more irons in the fire.  I won’t get into details but…

I just got back from a week long family vacation and I’m reminded how much hard work “taking off” really is.  I’m convinced it needs to be an Olympic sport…just harder. Call it the 1000 mile Family Dash!  Like an Olympic sport it takes tons of preparation, sacrifice, blood sweat,…

I hate to use this blog as a place to rant but I can’t help myself this time.  This past week I helped lead our annual kid’s camp for a week of fun, sun and Jesus.   The camp is really very cool though the rooms were outdated and the food…

Today I had the privilege of dealing with the customer service department at Apple.  I talked to a very nice young man named Jared.  I explained to him that I noticed that I had received two ITunes charges to my bank account for $20 each and that I believed this…

This week is our church’s annual VBS and as the Children’s Pastor of my church I’m neck deep in the middle of it.  My lovely wife and ministry partner has been working for countless hours trying to organize, plan, create and assemble everything from people to snacks to registration to…

Parents all over the world are making a horrible mistake with their children and they don’t even know it.  They are setting the stage for disaster by throwing a wrench in God’s plan for their children’s lives and they are oblivious to the consequences. They are taking a very simply…

Recently a member of my family had the craziest experience with a couple of con people.  Through intuition, the tug of the Holy Spirit and the con people’s mistakes we were able to reveal them and get our family member away from them before too much damage had been done. …

A great marriage starts with the man!  Bold statement huh?  I agree but it’s true.  If a couple wants a great marriage, that last, then it all starts with the man.  But here’s the trick the man needs to be a man and not a boy or at least not…

Have you ever treated a waiter, waitress, cashier, clerk, phone solicitor, door to door salesman, bellboy, maid, or any other service oriented/servant type person less than good or nice? I know I have. In fact the more I think about it, the more I realize what a “jerk” I’ve been…