Category: Rambling
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Highly Valued: 10 Thoughts for Pastor’s Wives
At one of the most difficult points of my life, I found myself crushed under the weight of ministry. Depression mixed with ministry pressures caused me to want to cash it all in. I went to Anne and let her know I couldn’t take it any longer. I needed to resign and, perhaps, find another…
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It’s in my blood: My Challenge to Kfirst for Global Missions
Went back home to Detroit a month ago a sat for a lunch with my parents. No idea how it came up, but I mentioned I had A-negative blood. It sent dad on a thought-tangent he couldn’t let go of. Even hours later, at a Red Wings game, he was still bringing it up trying to…
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Touch Your Own Bride: 5 Questions for Pastors and Their Marriages
I’m trying to get back to my “normal routine.” A month of a literal blur of a schedule has left me clutching my coffee and pondering the thoughts that have been jotted down from services and meetings. One in particular hasn’t let go of my mind. Pastor Wilfredo De Jesús, better known as Pastor Choco, is the head…
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Permission Granted: 4 Reasons Why Unity in Your Marriage is Better than Permission
Permission is a funny thing. Permission, defined, is authorization or consent. Sadly enough, this is how a lot of marriages work. The reason why marriages work that way, is there is a misunderstanding of unity and Lordship. One of my favorite scriptures comes out of Acts 17:28., “in him (Jesus) we live and move and…
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Generosity goes beyond the bucket. Recap from yesterday at Kfirst.
We came off a great Sunday at Kfirst and had some requests to post some of the thoughts from yesterday morning as well as the list of opportunities for people to serve with generosity. Like we said yesterday, our generosity most go beyond putting money in the bucket. We can’t just write a check…
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Broken Trust: 8 Ways to rebuild trust back into your marriage.
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds Psalm 147:3 Trust is a necessary element and is the foundation of every healthy relationship. In fact, trust is the security that makes intimacy possible in marriage. Like an organism, it must be nurtured and not ignored. My dad taught me years ago. “Trust is like…
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The Kingdom of Peeps. 4 ways to engage in Easter.
If feel very privileged with the position I have. Weddings, baby dedications, funerals, and the like are all phenomenal opportunities to be a part in precious family moments. I refuse to take them for granted. They are not inconveniences to me. These moments are privileges and every pastor must see them that way. My senior adults are…
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A “Yesterday Marriage”: 5 ways to help your marriage to not live off of re-runs.
Of all of our differences, Anne and I don’t really walk in agreement with the concept of re-runs. We both love shows and enjoy watching them together. But re-runs are a different story. I can only think of one show series in the past 17 years of marriage in which she’ll entertain the re-runs. But other than that,…
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Gold and White: 6 things the “Tumblr Dress” taught me about marriage.
I’m sitting watching a show with my daughter and during a commercial, I happened to look down at my twitter feed. Big mistake. The world was crazy with over the color of a dress. This phenom started Thursday with a Tumblr post. A lady posted a picture of a two-toned dress with the caption, “Guys please help…
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What to not forget about on Valentine’s Day! 1 Thing I want you to remember about February 14!
A week ago, I preached a message about rest. In that message, I had made a statement about the issues of vacations and sabbaticals. Would the urgency of vacations and sabbaticals, as well as the length of them, be necessary if we knew how to rest on a consistent, healthy basis? It doesn’t mean I don’t…
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