God is big enough

I was blessed this past Sunday by the deep passion and vulerability of my pastor, a man I proud to call my leader. He shared an amazing sermon on coping with grief in all forms and letting God be the center in the midst of it all.

But one of the points that impacted me the most was when he spoke of how we often deal with our anger by "shooting" one another. We take out our grief, frustration and anger over the loss on each other in the body of Christ. He encouraged us to learn a lesson from scripture and learn to properly lament. To take those feelings out on God and not each other, because He is big enough to take our best shot and He has promised that if we seek Him, He will meet us with open arms.

I told my small group tonight that it all reminded me of a song. So I thought I would share that song with everyone.

The email and the still small voice

So I got an email today from Amazon Kindle Publishing. You see, I, as a Kindle user, support the platform in everyway and therefore signed up to have this blog published to the Kindle platform. It is also listed in their directory. This is all well good you may ask but why should you care.

Admonishment + Holy Spirit = Joy

Reading through Galatians this week has been a joy. That isn't my normal reaction when reading through a book filled with such admonishment. Paul is as rarely this blunt with observations or as urgent with his pleas. The Galatians are in a world of trouble and it came not long after Paul left. He knows they are ripe to be led astray and he is worried.

The reason it has been such a joy for me is because

Vision and Focus

The topic of vision seems to come up a lot in my life. Not the 20/20 you need bi-focals kind of vision, you see. But the the leading people visionary kind of vision. I just always seem to be in position to have conversations about vision or be reading books about vision or even writing vision statements.

I believe this may be in part to the fact that I