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Our church collects and spends $200,000 of God’s money each year. God gives people money, people give some of the money back to God through our church, then the church board decides how that money should be spent. Going through the church budgeting process this year reminded me of the compounding responsibility of spending God’s […]

3 photos

Several weeks ago I challenged you to present your life using three photos. It’s not something you have to do, but I encourage you to. It’s a great exercise because it makes you condense your life down to the things that are the most important, and helps you identify themes. And, it provides valuable insight […]

Two Meals

Last night we helped prepare and serve meals at New Life Meal Ministry in Huntington. Its a great ministry that provides free food for anyone who wants it – not just a few times a year – but EVERY day, all year long. When we were done at New Life we shared a meal together […]

Affliction

We read 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 then summarized the verses as follows: verse 3 – God is the source of comfort verse 4 – God comforts us in our afflictions so we can comfort others in theirs verse 5 – More affliction = more comfort verse 6 – If spiritual leaders are afflicted, it benefits those […]

Prayer Potpourri

Last week our church prayed for you by name from the template I created below. I went through why I chose each topic of the prayer, then Kim – who prayed for each of you every day all week – shared her methods and thoughts with us. She prayed the template for you, prayed scripture […]

A Prayer

I try to pray for each of you each day. If you’ve asked me to pray for something or if I know of specific things going on in your life that day, that’s what I pray for. But often, there is nothing specific I’m aware of, so I pray for general things. This morning I […]

Your Way

We reviewed a familiar Bible story last night – David and Goliath. Before we read the story from 1 Samuel 17, I asked what you remembered: little guy v. big guy, David used slingshot, David won, cut off Goliath’s head (some didn’t remember that part – that may have been omitted from some of your […]

1>5?

We started Youth with a classic thought experiment – the Trolley Car Dilemma. A runaway trolley is speeding toward 5 people tied up on a track, you can divert the trolley to a track with only one person tied up on it. What do you do? Everyone at Youth last night chose to pull the […]

3 updates

Several of you (Jordan and Paul not pictured) attended the Drive-In last Sunday to watch “Play the Flute”. Thank you to Liberty Mills Church of the Brethren for providing this movie free for the community Sunday and Monday nights! Sunday morning during church we talked about the gender disparity in Youth – over the past […]

Listening

Thursday I’m going to spend the morning listening to God and I’ve invited you to join me. To some of you the concept likely sounds weird – or at least raises the question “how would I even do that?” In this post I’m going to describe how I do it – its not the only […]

Addy’s Baptism

As a public demonstration of her faith, Addy was baptized last night during Youth. Addy made her decision to accept Jesus as her Savior years ago, but now wanted her friends and family to know how important this decision was for her. Being a Christian isn’t just a label, it’s who she is. Pastor Conrad […]