Category: Rambling
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The 15-Minute Marriage: Marriage Transformation One Minute at a Time
I’m a sucker for infomercials. They can memorize me by their loud hosts with their crazy contraptions. And if the host has an English accent, they can practically sell me anything (I have issues). Most of these advertisements have a certain amount of easy actions to take. – 3 seconds to a fruit smoothy –…
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Victimizing my Spouse: 4 Reasons Why Sarcasm Doesn’t Work
Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him …(Ecclesiastes 10:12). I’d say that Anne and I are pretty normal. Do we yell at each other? Yep. Do we fight? Definitely. Do we have moments where feel like terrible parents? Absolutely. Has there been so much…
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The Sticky Soul: Reason Why Pastors Need Celebration and Encouragement
Coming of a tiresome Christmas season and into our annual vision series (#MYCHURCH), I cannot say I was completely prepared for what I would encounter. Within the previous month, the Lord put a few “Pauls” (older, wiser, experienced pastors) in my pathway that transformed January’s series into something special. It created an excitement in me…
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“Godly Venting?” : 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Vent
I can be quite silly with venting. Social media has been my therapeutic outlet for my continual disappointment with my sports teams (I apologize to the twitterverse and Facebook world). But I think both you and I know what I’m talking about when I use the word “venting.” Some of your venting is quite obvious…
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Hungry Hope: 4 Ways to Begin a Culture Hope in Your Marriage
“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls…” Hebrews 6:19 Hope seems like it’s such an elusive element in marriage today. Couples, typically, feel they either have it or they don’t. But as this blog has been brewing in my spirit over the past couple weeks, I’ve recognize that the internal struggles…
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“Today” living: Personal Growth Statements about “today”
What an amazing start to our new year. Yesterday, we kicked off our series “#MYCHURCH” with a challenge to stop wasting our today by spending it on a “someday.” The challenge at the end of service was to not necessarily make resolutions for the year but to resolve to grow every day by keeping our focus…
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Pastors and Pastor’s Wives: 5 Reason to Change Armour
One of the biggest challenges I’ve found in pastoral ministry, has been the “hand-me-downs.” These, quite simply, are church and pastoral expectations formed by previous experiences, both good and bad, that get handed down or passed onto a new pastor whether he/she like it or not. These ideas are filled with comparisons and assumption, hope…
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Pants On Fire: 5 Steps to dealing with lying in your marriage!
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Proverbs 12:19 Marriage is a covenant. A promise. In our wedding vows, trust is both explicit or implicit. It permeates the commitment we make to our spouse so that we can start off from the foundation of trust both in Christ and…
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Spend, don’t save: 5 Ways to Invest Time in Your Marriage
“Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well! Psalm 90:12 (MSG) There are “savers” and “spenders.” Judging by the average debt for couples, this country is filled with “spenders.” At the same time, looking at a high divorce rate, we have a country of “savers.” In other words, we spend money…
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Pastoral Team Chemistry: 10 Elements that have shaped our pastoral staff.
I randomly blog to pastors. There’s usually no agenda driving it but a passion to do what so many pastors have done for me: give me help and encouragement by sharing what they’re doing. Over the past 6-7 months, several pastors have requested I blog on a specific subject. Last week, it came up again. “What does…
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