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I am well aware that everyone struggle with contentment issues. Sometimes it’s hard to be satisfied with a life that seems to be going downhill fast. I am just want to share some of my contentment struggles.
I am satisfied with my wife, my income, my apartment and my overall standard of living. I don’t have [...]

There is trend that you can follow about me right here on this blog. When I am not writing frequently it is usually because I am struggling. When I haven’t written something within a couple days it means that I am out of focus, distracted, burned out, mixed up and any number of other things. [...]

In my previous post I shared how many times pastors and leaders follow the coolest churches and pastors on the interwebs while at times not giving enough attention to Christ our true leader. In this post I want share some things that distract me from that very thing and a few ideas on how I [...]

In preparation for this Sunday’s message and our main passage God is really getting my attention. If you would like you can read it here…John 21:14-22.
After meditating on this passage for Sunday God began to gently correct my leadership. Not so much how I lead but what I allow to distract me. In many casses [...]

A few weeks ago my favorite radio station changed it’s format. They had been the areas best modern rock station for as long as I have lived in Tennessee and then all of the sudden switched to “todays hit music.” In my opinion we didn’t need another radio station playing “the hits” and yet they [...]

I just read a post by Paul Peterson who is getting ready to launch a new church. You can read it here.
I didn’t realize all that was expected of me. I’m worn out and depressed just from reading it…alright…I’m over it.

There is something that consumes my thoughts and my prayers. I don’t just take it seriously as whole but I take responsibility for it on a very personal level. Communicating God’s word is my responsibility. Many can do it and some even assist me in it but when it all comes down to it, it [...]

When we started LifePoint we had nothing. We did however have a hope that we would someday be able to help other churches in the same ways we needed help. Well, not a lot has changed since then. We still don’t really have much and find ourselves needing to be extra wise with what we [...]

Unlike Kevin I have no problem reposting something from someone else’s blog. Mark Waltz, over at GCC put this up and it has me thinking about a few things so I thought I would share.

Kevin has a fire lit underneath him and you can start to follow his series here and here. Basically some authors have made the claim that the way the modern church operates is completely unbiblical. While I would not argue that many churches handle themselves in an unbiblical way, to make such a wide accusation [...]