wholly surrender | He must increase, but I must decrease. -John 3:30

I was having my devotion this morning and this was the scripture it started with:

2 Kings 2:11-12
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My [...]

It has been a week now since Courtney and I found out we lost our baby, hints the lack of blogging. This week we have both been riding a roller coaster of emotions, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. We have been surrounded and inundated with the love and support of our family, friends, and Father, and [...]

Well tomorrow I start my 3 sermon series on Worship with the first installment: What is Worship? I will be preaching this series in the PM services at ECC over the next three Sundays (Oct. 5, 12, & 19).
In this first sermon we will be examining What worship is and what it isn’t. In order [...]

We are quickly approaching a very important date in the ongoing history of America. Election Day 2008. There are many reasons to argue that this election is one of the most important and history making ever in the life of America, but that point is secondary to the fact that every election is extremely important [...]

I recently came across a very interesting article on churchrelevance.com about the top reasons that both unchurched and church-attendees go to church. The research comes from a very respected author and church researcher, Thom Rainer.
Often I find myself contemplating and discussing with fellow church leaders how to attract more unchurched people to the gospel and [...]