The Trinity Matters
Why is it that we seem to forget the foundational things in our faith? Why do we get caught up in a certain facet of one aspect of God and then, unbalance ourselves into error? How is it that the…
Change The World in 100 Years
Problem: – We are living in a world that seems to be increasingly evil, increasingly declining, increasingly more and more against the moral foundations that are laid out in scripture. Problem: – We have a society and culture that seems…
John Lynch Interview about “On My Worst Day”
Last year, I spent some time with John Lynch, over zoom. Here are some excerpts that I think you’ll like. You can find John on the web at https://www.johnlynchspeaks.com/ John has an update out to his “On My Worst Day”…
The Path – A Call to Follow
How every path of our own doing ends in the same place, and how the Father has a different path in mind for us. Pre-Adoption and our Paths: Our lives, pre-adoption (pre-salvation), are run by us and our community (family,…
Leading with Love
Simplicity of the Mission:Such a simple set of things can make up the church in such a season as we have just gone through. It purifies and clarifies things to have difficulty. We’ll always tend toward having many activities going…
A Prayer of Blessing for The Church
So many times over the past twenty years, I have been tempted to say “enough!” and cry out to God to lead me and my family toward something else. In every situation, in every moment, where I thought that we…
Why does God always want us in a place of trust?
I wrote on this topic right before COVID… Not knowing that COVID was coming. Then, we just went through this past 14 months and I would have never thought my own words would need to teach me time and time…
“I could have got more” – Oskar Schindler
Written on Monday, April 5, 2021. The day that I will officially be done serving on the Board of Directors at Vineyard Church, after over Thirty One years. Friends, This has been a difficult last few days. I’ve been back…
Harvesters, Hope, and a Hurting Heart
This is a message I wrote to honor my Mom’s life the week after her death on March, 28, 2020. She was an inspiration to all. LAST SATURDAY – March 28, 2020 My cell phone rang at 9:21 last Saturday…
A Prayer During Unrest – June 2020
As we have gone through this week, an uneasy, unsettled feeling has been growing in me. Not fear, but just unsettled. The enemy of God’s Kingdom is fighting hard to negate the love, hope, trust, and openness of heart that…
Controversial? Does Your Life Matter?
This message was posted last summer, and received quite a bit of push back. Let me know your comments At some point, you will feel it. It is an ache, a stirring, a longing, or a dull, chronic nagging. “What…
The Kingdom and Choosing
9:24 AM God our Father created in us the ability and the capacity to choose. It is this “will” that God gave us that was not a mistake by Him. It wasn’t that He was surprised when the “will” in…
What happened on 9/11 – A message to the church on 9/11/2020
Message regarding 9/11 and Vineyard Church 9/11/2001 is a day that those of us who experienced it will never forget. On this, the nineteenth 9/11 since that day, I’d like us to pause and remember what changed and how those…