I am shocked, yet not surprised. I guess I know it to be true, yet I am just struggling to understand where people are coming from.  Pastors, Reverends, and Leaders of all walks of denominational views and ideas seem to all be heading in the same direction… the other way.  Always asking "what can I do for you?"

The purpose of the church, the body of Christ, was and is to seek and save the lost, right? Jesus came to serve, not to be served – but so many attend church with the attitude of, “What’s it gonna do for me?”  I read an article this morning about how in most of the ‘mega-churches’, (over 1000 members) 89% of people polled said that the purpose of church was to meet their needs and the needs of their family. Only a very few people polled stated that the purpose of the church is to reach out to and save the lost.  And so we have a generation of people who take, and take, and take. 

I heard a statement this morning that I LOVE! “Consumers or Communers?” Oh please Lord, let us be a church of Communers and not consumers!!! 

It is my prayer AND my mission to try to help believers and seekers see that church is about worshiping God, loving God, learning about God.  In so doing the results will be better relationships with each other – but we have got to START with God.  Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of heaven and all this other stuff will be given to you.”  If we are seeking God our Father with every ounce of energy – then the other stuff all falls into place. When we try to do what we want and then ask God to bless it – we’re only hurting ourselves. We have to understand to seek God FIRST - before our jobs, before our girlfriends and boyfriends, before our churches even! THEN God will be able to bless us.

"I can't explain
Can't move my lips
Am I breathing?
Heart in my throat
Can't feel my pulse
Am I breathing?
Can't feel my heart next to yours
Scream if you want
Rage if you need / There are no more tears to cry / What is your name? / Stay with me please / It's lonely talking to these stones / I can't explain / the life lost here / I hear the young ones calling / Where are you child? I can't reach you / What use am I if I can't find you? / Nothing moves in the ashes / Where is life under these stones? / Someone tell me where to begin / lifting these stones. / Scream if you want / rage if you need / There are no more tears to cry / What is your name? / Stay with me please / It's lonely talking to these stones"


My dear friend Kristi Holler wrote and sings this song.  It just haunts me.  I love her music so much, I love her so much, she was so kind to me when no one else knew I existed.  Thank you for showing me AGAPE' (love) Kristi.  I will forever be thankful for the kindness and compassion you showed me when I was a wayward kid that just didn't understand!  God bless you!

The Timing of Our God

About two weeks ago I came down with a lung infection so bad it turned into pneumonia, due to this I had nothing to do for the last week and a half except sit around and read.  So I decided to read through the Bible again. I started in Genesis and began reading.  I read through it and then right into Exodus, Levitcus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and then Esther.  Here is where God's timing just blew me away. Yesterday I sent out an invitation to several of my friends to come to my annual "Purim Party" on Friday night this week.  I know it might not seem like much but to run into the book of Esther the next morning just really made me smile. (That's where the story of Purim takes place).  Sometimes people will say that others just see what they want to see.  Well, they might be right.  I WANT to see the Lord in everything.  God, you are SO good, SO amazing, SO wonderful!!!