Revival starts when you take a piece of chalk into your room, enter your closet and draw a circle on the floor.  Kneel in the middle of that circle and ask God to start a revival within that circle.  When He answers, that’s when revival begins. Revival doesn’t begin with others, a church, or even [...]

Songs have particular meanings for me.  Some more than others.  This one really speaks of where I am at right now.   waiting room by shane barnard i will run when i cannot walk i will sing when there is no song i will pray when there is no prayer i will listen when i [...]

I will wait for You patiently Praying from my deepest point of need I was listening to this song called ‘Wait’ by a band called By the Tree this evening.  This song is pretty old, but wow this is where I am at right now.  Its been a long two months and the search continues [...]

Brad Ruggles writes a live blog of an overview of what Dave Ramsey spoke on at Catalyst (In Atlanta, GA) this week.  I am neither a pastor or have my own church.  I do however have a interest in church leadership, churches, etc.  I’ve also been apart of a church that spoke a lot about [...]

Preface: I don’t mean to offend anyone.  Specifically family members who may read this, just making it clear that it is my response to things in life.    The other night I was reading through a book that I read a few years ago.  It deals with specific relationships and it got my mind thinking [...]

This article is from about a year and a half ago over at Mark Battersons blog.  I am finally getting around to sharing it.  Mark has great insight and appreciate his ministry in Washington D.C.  Here is the article. Church Steeples There was a time, just a few centuries ago, when nautical maps of Europe had [...]

“The health and life of the church rests in the spiritual examples the elders model. The problem in the church today is not the absence of innovative programs, financial giving, or dynamic preachers and teachers. The problem is in the leadership team.” – Found on the internet a few years ago.

So it makes me wonder. Through the experiences that I have had at church why restoration, isn’t really restoration.  I have seen two pastors, I personally know, fail morally in the positions they held, one in particular was in the very church that I was attending.  Why is it that we as believers never reached [...]

I’ve been wresting around this past evening with what to write exactly.  I’m still not sure I’ve come to a complete conclusion, and what I write may be a mess, but here it goes.   To be honest, I’ve had quite a bit of things on my mind as of late.  Some of those things [...]

So I’m just curious where did it come from, and what is it?  Last week I was leading a study in the book of James (Chapter 1) and we got onto rather good discussion about this.  I’m just kinda what your thoughts are.  I’m not here to start a argument, or whatever.  I’m just curious [...]

Hey all. I’ve seen this done on other blogs and wanted to do it here.  I am spending Monday and Tuesday in some concentrated prayer times through out the days, and wanted to pray for you guys and gals who read my blog…whoever you might be.  Please don’t be shy and not respond.  Be anonymous [...]

    Don’t need to say much about this one.     (HT: nakedpastor)

Yesterday morning I finished up John Piper’s book “Don’t Waste your Life”.  It was a great book, but a book I thought that the points could have been better defined and brought to a quicker attention rather than the drawn out process that Piper followed throughout the book.  Anyway, as I worked my way through [...]

My friend, Danny, shared this quote on his blog the other day.  This one hurts.  Sad thing, like many other things – I won’t do much about this.   “If you REALLY believe in the saving power of Jesus Christ then why in the world would you show up at church every single Sunday without [...]

I love this realistic picture Ronald Rolheiser paints of the church. To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murders, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.  It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. [...]