I honestly forgot I had a blog!

well I want apologize, I am now realizing that the month of May zoomed by and June is already half over and I honestly forgot I had a blog…I knew something wasn’t right in my life! Well, I didn’t totally forget, but rather didn’t care about spending time on the computer lately. For the record, I might do this again in the future as more responsibility is added to my life, family, and ministry.

To fill you in on my past month, I have had the joy of revamping the Worship Ministry of my church, start a young couples class on Sundays, and taking my students to Lookout Mountain for a week of Student-Life Camp. (more on that to come)

What made me remember my blog? Well I attended a Truth Project Seminar today and it reminded me of the purpose of my blog to deal with combatting lies in our Spiritual doubts. I didn’t realize it has been since May the 8th since my last post! I’m not ashamed, but happy of the fact that I am not addicted to the internet, blogging, and technology for that matter.

A Challenge of leaving self out of worship

I challenged my worship team at church last night to

“Leave The I Out Of Worship“

We are all guilty of not truly worshipping Christ in spirit and truth…it’s sad when people use the worship setting to promote selfish ambitions.

A Cord of Three Strands

A little encouragement for those in ministry this Monday morning. In the book of Ecclesiastes, there is a warning not to go at it alone in life. This passage is in Chapter 4:7-12 and it portrays to me, the importance of friends in the ministry to keep you from falling away and getting into trouble. Your friends in the ministry will stand by you for what is right and you find strength in numbers. As the key verse says…A cord of three strands can’t be broken easily. Hope this encourages you to find good, ministry building friends.

Frogs In The Pond Spirituality?

Alright everyone…from time to time a strange event happens and I am reminded of a spiritual truth. This is your time to explain the unexplainable…a time to show your inner spiritual application of the abnormal.

I was just standing outside by my lake\pond behind my apartment just watching the stars, counting the many aircraft zooming ahead all while being drowned by the croaking of frogs. For those of you who have ever heard a pond full of frogs, you know how the crazy sound is. All of a sudden, like there was a cue from one frog…SILENCE! For about three seconds there was not a sound by the pond! Then it all started back up like it never stopped! What is the meaning of this? Has anyone ever heard of a pond of frogs just going silent all at once? Take a guess at what I was reminded of due to this strange happening.

Worship, Work, And Play

Came across an interesting quote about worship:

MOST CHRISTIANS TEND TO:

WORSHIP THEIR WORK, TO WORK AT THEIR PLAY, AND TO PLAY WITH THEIR WORSHIP - Gordon, Dahl

What do you think? How can we balance work, worship, and play correctly? Has anyone ever struggled with getting priorities in line?