Last week at a Pastors Conference…

Some of the pastors present confessed they had struggled with the lack of faith and prayer. Reading that really broke my heart! Any of us who have been in ministry for any length of time understand how easy it is to fall into that TRAP!

But I have learned a great lesson…

When you “feel” to beat up, put down or left down to pray. Listen carefully…the physical is opposite from the spiritual. When our physical bodies get hungry we eat, and then we aren’t hungry anymore. However, in our spiritual lives, when we aren’t hungry, we must… Continue Reading…

I’m a firm believer in learning from others, and not re-inventing the wheel, unless there is no wheel! I want to share some tools and strategies I have gleaned from others, and by trial and error.

1. Team- A great tool in preparing a great message is having others to bounce ideas around with. At Cornerstone we have a teaching team and we meet on Monday mornings. We brainstorm about passages, illustrations, transitions & translations. It’s great fun, and a huge time saver. It really… Continue Reading…

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have God figured out yet. I don’t know why He does certain things one way and then another. God isn’t necessarily predicable, so we try to come up with systems to “explain” all the things God does, or doesn’t do.

A friend of mine found out yesterday his 23 year old daughter only has 3 weeks to live…

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I have been running around and been real busy lately. All great “stuff” all kingdom stuff, but just too much stuff! Even the right things can so easily drain all our reserves and blur our focus. Well, I think that’s where I am today. Continue Reading…

I have been reading in Luke for a couple of days, looking at how Jesus led, and fed those around Him, in other words, I’m looking at Jesus through the lens of being a leader and pastor.

This really hit me this morning. In Luke 5.15&16, it says… Continue Reading…

This is a portion of an article written by S. Michael Craven speaking about the activities that preceded previous revivals.

Prayer!

“They were praying that the Lord, in his mercy, would pour out his Spirit upon his people and Continue Reading…