RUMORS...AGAIN

Don"t ya just love what we can hear through the famous "grapevine". I got a phone call last evening from a board member in the Church I pastor (www.crosspointwlr.com) He is a great guy. He wanted me to be aware that someone called him, (someone who used to be a member here 12 years ago LOL!!!!!!), and heard through the wonderful grapevine that CrossPoint Church had filed for bankruptcy! Wow! Well, our Church does not have millions in the bank, but we are far from that statement. I love it. We are a healthy Church that has some awesome people who give faithfully, but you have some "concerned" person wanting to confirm the fate of CrossPoint.... and he has not given a dime in over 12 years!! Yes, I was fired up about it at first! Now? well I still am. Why didn't he just freakin call and or send some money insted of feeding the rumor! LOL. I love rumors, when they are about me.... its water off my back. Mess with my family or the good name of CPC, well the old testament wrath just might "mana-fest!" Hmmmm, O wonder what grape vine juice tastes like? Probebly like the water that God puked out of his mouth in the Book of Revelation. Just a Thought..............

PRESSURE

I remember when I was a kid my Grandma making tea. I would watch as the steam would slowly roll off of the release valve. Then, it would happen. I would run for cover and cover my ears! All of the sudden that little bitty tea kettel would blow out a whisteling sound that scared me to no ends. But, oh man Grandma's tea was good! Such is life. To be honest I feel like I just want to run for cover and hold my ears. in the Bible paul said, "we are pressed but not crushed." Well I feel like (even though I'm not) I am crushed. Pressure is for a purpose. Its in the "press" that we are molded, tried and made tender by the Holy Spirit. Life is not fair, yet, God is good! Tea any one? Just a thought...........

TRAFFIC

On the highway of life we can easily get caught up in all kinds of "traffic jams". What jams us up are several things. Let me name a few. First, the fear of pleasing everyone ALL THE TIME. You know what I mean? I am a pastor. I love people. It is expected of me to be a people pleaser. Well, if you know me IM NOT!!!!! I refuse to get jammed up as I have been before. The question is, how do you get unjammed? The best way out of a traffic jam is to turn around and go another way. Leave the  traffic and find another way. My life is too short to please everyone. I will try to please my wife, kids, parents and God. Everyone else is only as I feel it can truly benifit their life. If I continue to stay in the jam, i will not be productive, rather I will be standing still, going no where.... stagnet. I will continue to love people, but I will never be bound by them. Traffic jams.... they happen. Life, it happens. Detours? For sure. Stop standing still and go the other way. "Wide is the gate, narrow is the WAY"  Just a thought...................

Power

I long for it. I long for the day when i can walk into a hospital room and lay my hands on a person who is sick with cancer, heart disease, etc... I long to see the stuff that happened in the Bible to happen in my life. I long to see a God that I know is active, be active in my life. I know things happen "according to His will" but I refuse to use that as an excuse. Jesus Christ said, "I am gonna die, and then be raised again, then I will pray to the Father (God) that He will send the POWER of the Holy Spirit. It happened then, it happens now and I want it. Not for me, not for popular gain, not to feel good, but to see people changed and draw other people to God. I am not talking about belief or doctrine. I am talking about a real God, that really cares and really loves me. A powerful God, that longs to powerfully touch me. I long for it, and I will walk in it. Just a thought..........

Burned Popcorn

Know something funny? I do. Its the absence of commom sence. Since when can we NOT think for ourselves! Since when can we not see the answer to the questions when it is right freakin' in front of us! For example, who screwd up the popcorn? Let me expalin.... Have you ever noticed the instructions on a bag of microwave popcorn. It states, and i quote, "remove plastic wrap before placing it in microwave". Some really slow....slow person must have forgot to take it off before melting it in the freakin' microwave. The fact is, that is a total absence of God given common sence! My point? Think. Learn to listen to your heart before you do the media. Learn to listen to your heart before a right winged or left winged, or a broken wing tells you the "correct way" Commen sence is not book smarts, tech smarts.. it is survival knowlege that we must have to cleary know how NOT to "burn the popcorn".