Today is Ash Wednesday. What is Ash Wednesday? It’s the first day of Lent. That means there are 40 days before Easter Sunday (not counting Sundays).
Traditionally, churches have a service on Ash Wednesday and the participants are “imposed” with ashes marked on their forehead (in the form of a cross). Usually a Scripture is used from Ecclesiastes 3:20: “You’ve come from dust, and to dust you will return.” It’s a day that we remember that we…
What is the purpose of marriage?
Gary Thomas in Sacred Marriage, invites the reader to see that marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. He poses the question, “What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?” The goal of marriage goes beyond the pursuit of personal happiness to being a “spiritual discipline designed to help us know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more dearly.” God…
January is now behind us and we’re almost halfway through February. And I know it’s cliche, but I have to say, time really does seem to fly by. Football season is officially over, the Saints won their first Super Bowl , and now our attention is towards the other big day in this month – VALENTINES DAY. Now, I’m sure you’ve noticed all the commercials on T.V. and radio, encouraging us (and by this I’m talking primarily…
This past Tuesday, a few of our Pathway (Singles) leadership and I visited The Porch, which a weekly singles gathering that meets at Watermark Community Church in Dallas. I invited them to come with me in order to get some outside exposure on how other churches do their singles ministry, and maybe even help generate some ideas for our own singles ministry as well. And so really, I went with the posture of asking God to give our team greater…
I read an incredible quote this morning by Charles H. Spurgeon that really resonated with me:
“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself
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There are some leadership blogs that I follow on a regular basis and one of them is Mark Batterson, who is the pastor of National Community Church in DC. This week, he wrote a post about one of their core values and thought we could all learn from it:
We have a core value at NCC: love people when they least expect it and least deserve. Go ahead and love people when they expect it and deserve, but
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