Going Deeper… Why Is This Happening to Me? 9 Mar 20147 Aug 2014 "Why is this happening to me?" As a pastor, I get asked this question a lot. When struggles and difficulties come, it is natural to want to know the "why."…
Jonathan Edwards… Jesus Frees Us to Love Others 8 Mar 2014 When we experience the love of Jesus we become freed from shallow and selfish counterfeits of love, to authentically love others with the love with which He loves us. What…
Jonathan Edwards… Jesus Frees Us to Love God 6 Mar 2014 We don’t need to be afraid of God. We do need to fear God but we don’t need to be afraid of God. Proverbs 1:7 says, “Fear of the LORD…
Spiritual Formation… I Hate Waiting 2 Mar 20143 Mar 2014 One of my favorite movies is The Princess Bride. So many great quotes from that movie. Who has not heard that line of Indigo Montoya, "I will walk up to…
Church… Love and Respect, Part 2 27 Feb 201427 Feb 2014 Now I come to it! What does it mean for wives to submit in Ephesians 5:22? That's the rub isn't it? Well, again Paul points to the relationship between Christ…
Church… Love and Respect, Part 1 26 Feb 201426 Feb 2014 My mentor and friend, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones, who almost four years ago was called home to be with his Lord, credited his 57 year marriage to his wife Gloria to…
Worship I Don’t Think So… 25 Feb 201425 Feb 2014 Music. I love music! Music is one of the great therapies of life! In one of God's ironic twists, He has given me a love for music and no personal…
Spiritual Formation How Do You Get To Know God? 24 Feb 201424 Feb 2014 What does it mean to know someone, I mean really know someone? Certainly it means we know of them. It also means we know more than that, it means we…
Family… Sunday Lessons 23 Feb 201423 Feb 2014 Today marks a week since Anna came home from the hospital. The week has predictably been full of ups and downs, but she is glad to be home and we…
Christian Living… Love = Grace + Truth 22 Feb 201422 Feb 2014 A note of Introduction I received a comment today asking me where I got the idea for the title of my blog, Learning to be Full of Grace and Truth.…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 