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Today was the last day of McDonald’s Monopoly. Kelly and I have played every year since we have been dating… and lost every year. This year we had high hopes. We poured some actual prayer into it, built up our faith and played, ate, and collected pieces. Of course God knows that we could use [...]

This week has been a busy one. Micah became ill (small fever, cough) Thursday and has been up and down. His slight cases of asthma has not helped. The rains came finally… and came and came some more. The ground, parched as it was, soaked it all up. So yesterday (Saturday) we went to the farmers [...]

Translation: not unto us, Oh Lord…. Sed nomini, tu o da gloria… but to Your name may all the glory be!
The next three months are critical times for our church plant. We are meeting with people, inviting them to be on the team. We are asking God to show us staff possibilities. Meetings with pastors. [...]

Prayer Request: Yesterday we went to church and, as usual, heard many prayer request. But, one really struck me. An elderly gentleman rose his hand to share a request but could not get out his request for fighting his emotions. Another gentleman/friend behind him said “pray for him… he got a  bad report at the doctor”. [...]

For those of you interested in taking a strength finder’s test that I blogged about, stay tuned. I am currently trying to find out the best (cheapest) way to get that in your hands. FYI, a couple of people have taken the test since i have put the blog up and it ahs helped them [...]

We have been hosting weekly Bible studies on the topic of prayer… and it has been good to look at this subject again. Just yesterday I was reading portions of Richard Foster’s book Prayer: Finding The Heart’s True Home. He divides the book into chapters about the different types of prayer (or postures of prayer). As [...]

I went to a conference sponsored by the Piedmont Baptist Association yesterday and it was really awesome. It was co-sponsored by Gallop (the people who take polls) and the head of the “faith” department at Gallop was there presenting. The topic: a strengths assesment put out by Gallop. This strengths assessment is being used by [...]

Well, it has been a busy last two weeks or so and I haven’t posted anything in a while. We went to Birmingham Al the last weekend of September… met with a pastor at Shades Mountain Independent Church (www.smic.org). It went well. Also met with a friend of mine from college who is supporting us.
Anyway, [...]