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Have you ever felt like God was calling you to something? Did you ever question this call when it came? Did you move to do what God urged you to do? Or did you take a step back and count the costs? Did the disciples hesitate when Jesus called them to follow him? Not asContinue reading “What will a disciple do?”

Below is an unaltered statement of the former pastor if the church I am serving, my congregation. The pastor wrote this statement to say that anyone is welcome to come through the doors. The congregation did not make it an official statement of the church to not pigeon hole me (the new guy) into somethingContinue reading “Who is Welcome Here…”

Have you ever felt like no matter what you did that it was always wrong? You try to help others at the expense of your family. You try to spend more time with your family and someone who needs you is left out. You try to do something that is asked for, and it isContinue reading “Nothing right”

Are you ready to stand on the edge? Are you ready to go somewhere and do something most people would think was not a good idea, or silly, or completely insane? God has called us all to leave behind our complacency, to leave behind our fears and inhibitions. God has called us to live aContinue reading “Are you ready to stand on the edge?”

Todd the pastor at the Well in Pineville wrote this morning on his blog about Worship Wars. Here is the link: Deep Water. I commented on this posting from my thoughts on the subject, and how things are here right now. We wonder about not changing, and the answer we have to come to isContinue reading “Worship Wars…”

We all think of Worship as something we come to to get something. Worship is that 1 hour a week I can come and get refreshed for the rest of the week. If this is how you think about worship, than I want to tell you that worship weakly, and not weekly! Worship is notContinue reading “What are you willing to give???”

Marks of Discipleship. What in the world are marks of discipleship and why should I be worried about this? Is it some kind of disease that is going to take over my body? Is it something that could attack my children?No it is not a disease (although some might say you are infected with somethingContinue reading “Marks of Discipleship”

It is truly amazing that God does the things he does. He still continues to provide for me. When I wonder how things are going to happen, where financial resources are going to come from, where the time to do everything I have to is coming from, He creates a way. He gives the resource,Continue reading “God still amazes me!”

I have been rereading Power Surge by Michael Foss and ELCA pastor in Atlanta. In this book he discusses how the church has gone away from the way church was in the bible to making members in the church. We are more worried about the number on our annual report to the synod then weContinue reading “Cast Members….”

The question is whose faith is it? Is it my faith that I must produce, or is it God’s faith that is given to me?Faith is a gift, that we can not of our own will do enough to receive, but yet it is freely given to us, by God working in us. If weContinue reading “What is Faith – From Deep Water Blog”