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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”

I have been doing a lot of looking into things…We are beginning a nursery, so I am looking into this, and the legal issues of background screening for volunteers. I feel like I am hitting my head against the wall sometimes with the things that are happening, looking for what is best for the ministry,Continue reading “Where is your treasure?”

It has to increase! I need more, I can not go on with this being this way it has to be more. Have you ever wanted something so bad that it consumed your very life? Have you ever though about something all the time, that it completely takes all of your energy and time andContinue reading “Increase!!!!!”

What is it that drives us? What is it that makes us go? It is really easy to say that Jesus or God is our driving force, but is that true? Does that fact that the fire of God burns deep in my soul really drive me to do what I am doing? It isContinue reading “Simple Hearts”

Glory is an interesting thought. We think of it in terms of high status. In something that is better than something else. I was thinking of the Bon Jovi song Blaze of Glory which talks about the person going down in a blaze of glory. He is an old western person, who is killed inContinue reading “Blaze of Glory?”

Mother Teresa once said she was nothing more than a pencil in the hands of God. What a profound statement of faith and undying devotion. It is a statement of who is in charge, a statement on why everything is done in her life. Can we say the same? Are we the instrument that helpsContinue reading “a pencil in the hands of God”

We have been traveling this past week with our girls, and they really have not been asking that much are we there yet…. BUT…. The other day I said we were there. We were sitting at a red light on the corner of two streets. And I said, “OK we are there.” One of myContinue reading “Are We there yet?”

Yoda once said to Luke Skywalker that there is no trying to do something. We either do it, or we do not. We either commit to doing something or we are not committed to it. This week we look at the death of our savior, the death of a man who has committed no sin,Continue reading “Do or Do not There is not Try!”