I just made it to the New Testament on my way through the Bible. It’s only taken me four years to get through the Old Testament in my Chronological Bible on top of my other books and studies. Not bad when you consider it took the Israelites 40 years in…
Expectations
I’m just about done reading The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus. This has been a timely read for me and I wanted to share one part I found interesting. It’s something I think is very critical to our growth and we tend to take it lightly at times and overlook…
I’m currently reading the book The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus. The idea of the arrows is rooted in the encounter with King Joash and Elisha in the book of 2 Kings. Elisha instructs the king to strike the arrows on the ground and the king stops after three. Elisha…
I attended the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) this year for the first time where the GLS speakers talked about how we were all leaders. With leaders comes followers so, I was left to wonder how many leaders vs. followers are there? Is there a magic number of followers per leader?…
One of the pastors at our church recently preached on transitions in our lives. Our church is in the midst of a transition as we are looking for a new pastor. Then, the next morning, we found out about a dear gentleman in our church who died suddenly. A few…
While in Arizona, we made our way to the bank to get some change for laundry. We were making small talk with the teller and she asked where we were going. We mentioned our destinations and told her the Grand Canyon was one of the highlights. To my amusement she…
I’m writing this post from an Arkansas state park early in the morning as the kids are still asleep. The family is on the start of a 26-day journey across parts of America in an RV. This is something Brian and I thought we’d do one day when we were…
After a hard, long, and rough month of my life, I decided I was going to stay home from church and have some one-on-one time with God and my Bible instead of going to my normal Bible study. I needed to talk with Him personally and not talk with others….
There seems to be a lot of evil in our world today. Every time I turn on the news, listen to the radio, or look at the latest feed, there are acts of violence done to the innocent. There are people committing acts of injustice I could never imagine. People…
Christmastime in my childhood meant traveling to a far distant land called Clarksville, TN to be with our extended family. This town was anywhere between 6-12 hours away depending on where we lived at the time. As a child, I would stare out the window, look up at the stars,…