This weekend John was down at Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs. He had done their men’s retreat (with 300 guys) and was asked to speak at the weekend’s worship services. So Joanne and the girls and I drove down Saturday night. First off, it was great to see John. He is such an amazing [...]
Bill often says something like this: My primary motive cannot be to please God because only my trust in him pleases him. Wow! This flips some of my theology on it’s head. I have spent 33 of my 38 years on this earth trying to please God. After all I want God to be happy. [...]
Someone posed this question to me the other day: is grace your worldview or is it your calling? I thought it was an interesting question and I have wrestled with it for the past couple of days. To me, what it implies is that it’s one thing to have grace as a worldview–that’s an internal, [...]
One of my favorite axioms is: In times of stress you go with what you know. What does that mean? It means that when pressure builds sometimes what we know to be true is overridden by what we have experienced in our past, or by what we used to believe. We revert to a way [...]
Our TrueFaced Worldview night on Monday was a great success! We held the event at my in-laws and even though they have a good sized house, the place was still packed with nearly 40 folks who came to hear the message of grace. Everything just went so well! Dave and John did an amazing job [...]