Twitter makes me really really lonely.

My day will be going just fine when I decide to ruin it by checking up on my stream of twitter updates. In a split second I go from happy and satisfied to discontented and lonely.

I call it the Elijah Syndrome.

In my pea little brain it feels as if every Christian who is anybody knows somebody and they’re all going to lunch without me.

It’s a horrible feeling. Continue Reading…

Spring is here – supposedly.

Hope you changed your clocks last night and made it to church on time. It’s Daylight Savings time and the birds are chirping, the flowers blooming, the people leaping.  All is green. You get the picture.

I like Spring. My birthday is in Spring. Tulips bloom in Spring. The days are longer. Frappuccino’s taste better. Flip flops look better. My squirrels have kids. The world smiles.

And it reminds me that God is a God of above and beyond. Continue Reading…

I will never be able to repay the best gift that God has given me apart from himself.

But it won’t be for lack of trying.

Today is my mother’s birthday and she is hands down no competition the greatest gift God has placed in my life. Continue Reading…

Happy Friday Everyone!

Let me start by welcoming my new subscribers and thanking all of you faithful readers of my blog!  You can still join the list of email subscribers and qualify for a $25 gift card every Friday when I randomly select a winner.

And drum roll please…This week’s winner of a $25 Starbucks Gift Card is: Jather!! Continue Reading…

All I meant to do was run down to the assessor’s office to get my 2009 homeowner’s exemption filed since someone neglected to tell me about this minor $2000 mistake.

I’m not sure who to blame, but Mayor Daley seems like a great candidate. Regardless, after the near cardiac event I had the day I received my last mortgage bill from the Bank I knew I needed to take some serious action. Continue Reading…

I’m hungry but not for food.  I’m thirsty but not for water.

And that’s a really good thing.

I remember the first time I felt real hunger for God.  I was 16. It was at summer camp.  I stood on a rock after the evening service and gave my life to God. And I couldn’t get enough of Him. I woke up the next day with a deep sense of urgency to get into His word. The more I read the more I wanted to read. The more I saw the more I wanted to see. Continue Reading…

Nobody likes to wait. And you can put me at the head of that line.

It doesn’t matter if it’s waiting for a cup of coffee in the morning, or waiting for a date to show up on my doorstep, I hate waiting in all of its forms.

So it comes as a bit of an inconvenience to know that God’s love language to us is one of waiting.

Well, maybe not his love language, but for sure His steady method with us!

It’s a method He’s used through the ages and He’s not about to stop now. Continue Reading…

Everybody wants to be successful.

The Bible says a lot about success but nowhere more directly than in Joshua 1:8. Get this:

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Why do you go to church?

Have you thought about it lately? Or maybe you don’t go. Your friends tell you you should. Your grandma told you you ought to.

But why? why do you go to church? Continue Reading…

If you’ve been a Christian for a little bit of time, the odds are that at some point someone challenged you to read through the Bible in a year. And if you were a Christian around the new year, the odds are that you decided this would be the year for you to read through your Bible.

Things were going great until around the end of February.

Then you hit Leviticus. And your plan went into a screeching halt.

There’s something about the book of Leviticus that makes every Christian feel, well, just a little bit dumb. And somewhere between the burnt offering and the grain offering, you begin to feel as if theology was better left for the theologians, or at the bare minimum your pastor.
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