Browsing all posts in November, 2008.

Advent

We began the advent season today preparing our hearts for the celebration of the coming of Christ. All I can think about is how to make less of Christmas and more of Jesus. That’s what we’re saying with this series we’re in called Simple Christmas. We’ve made Jesus simple and Christmas complex as we’ve made [...]

My Glory(ous)

Well, I wasn’t singing “My Glorious” by Delirious, but it seemed to be a fitting title for what just happened. We’re doing several songs on Sunday which I have never memorized or even played through for that matter. On top of that, we didn’t have practice this week because it’s Thanksgiving and its just good [...]

Thoughts on Jesus

I’m still on my journey through Luke. And I will continue to periodically update you on my thoughts about Jesus that are spawned from Luke’s account of His life. What struck me the most today was the second part of verse 12 in chapter 6. It says, “and spent the night praying to God.” Wow. [...]

Communion

The body and the blood of Christ, broken and poured out for you. Think on these things. Meditate on this as you celebrate Thanksgiving this week.

It’s been a few days…

…since I posted. I got sick and just haven’t felt like doing much of anything. But I missed my blog, and you. So, here’s what’s happpened. Kristen and I had two amazing days together. I don’t really remember what all we did, I just remember thinking this morning when she walked in my office, “I [...]

A thought about Jesus

As I wrestled with my very life this morning on getting out of bed to spend some quality time alone with Jesus, I thought, “Jesus, did you ever lay there in the morning and think, ‘I’m tired, can I just lay here for another half-hour God?’ or ‘This rock that my head is on and [...]

Advent

“Christmas is going to be different this year.” That’s what I hear people saying. Of course, I think I hear that every year, but this year I kind of believe it with the way the economy is. We’re gonna be doing the advent part of our services a little differently this year. I don’t want [...]

humility

So how exactly do I stop talking so much, listen even more, quit worrying about me, and focus completely on other people?

Andi Longest

I’ve got a link over on the left side of the page to Andi’s blog, and I highly encourage you to go check it out. Andi has been guiding the children at Cornerstone for some time now and doing a heck of job leading that area. She recently decided to follow her passions in other [...]

DWYL

I told you about the “Don’t Waste Your Life” journals that my parents got me for my birthday. It took me about two weeks to finally write in the first one. Ironically, I didn’t want to waste the first page or write anything that was surface level, so I waited two weeks before putting pen [...]