The year has been an interesting year for me. It would be great if when the clock struck midnight and the new year began, that all those things from this year would be over and forgotten and a new fresh start would begin with the new year. We all know that isn’t true. The things … [Read more…]
Growing up, I attended a church who regularly had an advent wreath set up the weeks prior to Christmas. When I switched churches, and denominations, the advent wreath “disappeared” and I never heard of the advent season again. I knew about it, but I had really forgotten what is was and why it was observed. … [Read more…]
This fall there has been so much going on, with my FT job, my family, ministry, etc that I haven’t had time to post on the blog, or update the site as I would like. While often times it bothers me that I haven’t, we all need to learn to say “no” to avoid burning … [Read more…]
DISCIPLE The final focus of the conference was disciple. As leaders, we need to be training up the leaders under us. Once again, several speakers shared experiences, how they do things in their church, etc. The speakers were good and I could comment on all of them, but space is limited so I am focusing … [Read more…]
The CM Leaders conference had a lot of great features. One of those was having Phil Vischer be the emcee. Seeing Phil “unscripted” was memorable. During one part of the conference, Phil brought out his ukelele and played a song he had written about children’s ministry. Here is the raw video I took of that … [Read more…]