Who’s Your Daddy?

“Even though you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ I became your father through the Gospel.”  I Corinthians 4:15 We have a lust for knowledge in our world.  We always want to know and we feel an obligation to help everyone else to know what we know. [...]

Ordinary Moments…

“It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God – but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people – and this is not learned in five minutes.”     Oswald Chambers Discipleship is a process. It’s moment [...]

Are you following Him?

Brace yourself.  I am haunted by what you are about to read.  So I don’t take away from these words I will not say anything else except, please excuse my lack in poetic structure.  I copied this by ear.  The words are correct but may not be written out like it should as a poem.  [...]

How’s your love walk…

“…whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”  John 15:5 (ESV) “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails…”  1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (ESV) In John 15 there are several things Paul said [...]

To love, someone must die…

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, than someone lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:12-13  (ESV) There is a high price for love.  You can have it for free but it will cost everything.  You cannot love without paying [...]

Wait

In my dad’s previous post he made reference to Joseph Sasser’s song “Wait”.  I thought I would post the lyrics for you! If I could just wait, in the presence of the Lord If could be still and know that You are God If I could just hold back my tongue and listen to your [...]

His Work

There is a quote from Oswald Chambers that reminds me everyday of how little I can do for me and how much He has done for me–and is stll doing in me. “Christian doctrines are the explanation of how Jesus Christ makes us saints, but all the doctrine under heaven will never make a saint. [...]

Beach Baptism

Yesterday afternoon we had the privilege of baptising about 20 teenagers and adults, mostly teenagers.  It was memorial day weekend and the beach was crowded despite rain all around us.  It was awesome hearing the group of about 60 or 70 cheering for each person as they declared publicly their commitment to Jesus.  The event [...]

What a Day!

This morning at Liberty I started a 3 or 4 message series on the Person and work of the Holy Spirit.  I am really looking forward spending the teaching time on Sunday mornings.  Following the Sunday messages we will start a teaching series during the week that will be more a exhaustive treatment of the Holy [...]

The Joy of Obedience

I was out early this morning , about 6, on the beach catching a view of the sea gulls.  I was treated to a school of porpoise that just seemed to hang out in front of me, and I was struck by the incredible freedom that they seemed to enjoy.  Their element is the water [...]