Sanctified by the Cross

OK, Here's the deal, one night I was really awake but didn't want to waste my night watching TV, so I grabbed my phone and picked a topic to write on. I tried to post this from my phone but it wouldn't let me do it. So I sent an email to myself via my text messaging on my phone and then copied it to the blog (I didn't even know I could do that!) Remember this is late night theology, and I was typing on a cell phone, so take everything I write with a grain of salt, which most of you do anyway. Sometimes I wonder why God must continue to teach me patience. But then I again come to the realization that what I want Him to do right now, I tend to want more than I want God Himself. I want the gift more than the giver. It is not always so much that He wants patience from me as much as He wants me to desire Him and a relationship with Him more than that thing which I may be waiting for. Patience then, is not the ultimate, be all, end all goal. The goal is a deep, thriving...

Wow! It has been an incredible month so far, much has happened and I can't even begin to describe it all. God has shown Himself in some amazing ways, and I hope to be able to share a few of them with you. I spent the fourth of July with my family. Always a good time! I actually got to be a first base coach at my nephew Joseph's baseball game. (His dad and my sister coach the team) I really miss getting to do that kind of stuff, hopefully when I go to a community as a pastor I can get into coaching some baseball. Who knows? It was a great time with Joseph and He has really grown up a lot, I appreciated getting to spend the next morning with him on the golf course. Then I went out for lunch with my niece Laura and her boyfriend. It was a really good time. Later I found out that Laura (who is going to Nebraska Wesleyan) and her boyfriend had a conversation about me after I left to go down to meet my brothers to play some more golf.n Laura was describing our relationsh...

Hi All, Here I am, more than two weeks has past since my last post... and there is maybe a reason for that, God has thrown a lot at me in those two weeks. As soon as I had posted the catch up post for everything, I read an article about how there are certain pastors who do more posting and checking on their blog about ministry and what they would like to do, but then don't actually do it. It was something very interesting to think about in light of me starting this Blog. I hoepe I never fall into the trap of talking about what I am doing but never actually doing it. It has been an busy couple of weeks. we had a great Father's day service at church, revolving around the theme of John3:1-3 1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we...

Whew, It seems as if time had flown by so incredibly fast. The last 4 weeks have been incredible jam-packed days where the grace of God has been so evidently seen. I arrived the 25th of May in Red Cloud, NE. This is a community of about 1,000 people. My dad is the high school principal and math teacher up at the school, that coupled with spending last summer here working a couple of jobs and being apart of the Congregational Church has been an inroads to a lot of ministry. This year I am with the Congregational "Bible" church (same church, newly acquired name, to reflect what we are centered upon) to fulfill my graduation requirements for Moody. I am full time with the church this summer and am actually getting paid to do this work! Which keeps me much more sane than trying to work two jobs and tackle responsibility with the church. As much as I enjoyed working at the drive in and the Cafe last summer, it is nice to be able to concentrate on the body of believers here...

Hey all, I finally am able to take a little time to set up this blog thing. I am really new to this and it will take me a little time to get used to it. Ideally this will become more and more frequent and I will eventually fill you all in on the "why" for this blog. Right now though I want to catch you all up on the last few weeks.