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

Several years ago there was a great Michael Douglas movie called The American President. In this movie Michael Douglas plays a widowed President who becomes interested in a female lobbyist on Capital Hill. Their first meeting is embarrassing situation where he walks up behind her as she is insulting his Presidential Leadership. He makes light of it [...]

Well as most of you can probably tell from the one-word, all-caps, title of this post I have been sucked into the emotional/spiritual/intellectual wormhole that is the hit TV series LOST. I generally am not a big fan of the science fiction/fantasy genre. Most of movies, books, and shows in that category seem to blow [...]

Social Networking is all the rage these days. MySpace, Twitter, Friend Feed, and the most popular, Facebook. So I was thinking today, how would God’s Facebook profile read? I know a little cheesy, but roll with me. I promise it’s going somewhere. Profile pic – Jesus (John 1:14) Age – Everlasting (a.k.a The Alpha and [...]

Well 2010 is in full swing, and I am so excited about our new Connection Groups. As part of our new discipleship initiative at Calvary Baptist Church we are launching Connection Groups. These groups will meet on various nights and at various times throughout week for the purpose of helping each other grow deeper as [...]

Well now that we are in 2010 one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to start blogging regularly again. So here we go. Way back in 2008 Courtney and I were introduced to an incredible campaign called Advent Conspiracy. The basic idea is that we as Americans, being the richest country in the world, should [...]