Mike | February 9, 2009
Read Jesus’ letter to the church at Ephesus this morning.
As far as the church (our churches) goes here’s what I wrote.
But I was drawn Jesus’ words, “You have forsaken your first love.” The more I thought about those words the more I thought about the church’s relationship to Jesus. He is their groom and the [...]
Mike | February 2, 2009
Sometime last week there was a copy of Purpose Driven Connection, a magazine put out by purposedriven.com in my box at the church so I threw it on my desk to read later. Yesterday morning (Sunday) I picked it up and thumbed through it. I came across a an article called “Are You Connected?” The [...]
Mike | March 4, 2008
I suppose I’m a pretty good source for life change. My life has taken so many turns it looks like the switchback roads of Arkansas. I grew up moving every two to three years. I changed friends like a high school guys changes clothes. I’ve changed careers many times. You [...]
Mike | January 29, 2008
At the age of 28, God transformed my life. And at that time I didn’t really have a day-to-day picture of what a godly man looked like. I was fortunate to have two very godly men who provided examples when I was younger – too bad I didn’t listen to them back then. Both Grandpa [...]
Mike | January 23, 2008
I finished up Tony Dungy’s book, Quiet Strength. I thought it appropriate that he finished the book – right up to the last page – with the main thing.
Dungy said that coaching or winning a Super Bowl was not his main purpose in life. He stated that glorifying the Father was his main purpose. How [...]
Mike | March 29, 2007
Last night, as our Single Men’s Bible Study met, I encountered what few men get to experience – total and undeniable honesty and vulnerability. It was simply amazing as one of the guys came in, sat down and looked at us with the look of a whooped puppy. You could tell something wasn’t [...]
Mike | March 13, 2007
Last night I was lying on the couch watching a re-play of the 2007 Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame show. I don’t know that what I was watching or listening to is important. It’s just happen to be what I was doing. As a matter of fact I was watching U2 perform I [...]
Mike | February 2, 2007
I thought I might get your attention with this title. For guys that’s a rough thing to think about – and a painful one at that. But I was reading Kenny Luck’s book, Risk: Are You Willing to Trust God with Everything?, when he used a passage from Jeremiah 4:3-4 -
3 This is what the [...]
Mike | January 16, 2007
I was reading Matthew 12 this morning and I ran across this quote from Jesus and thought how it applied to men -
“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” – v. 25
Did you get that? While Jesus was addressing the Pharisees’ accusation [...]
Mike | January 6, 2007
I’ve been reading through a book I have come to find both intriguing and challenging. It’s Paul Coughlin’s No More Christian Nice Guy. In it Coughlin posits the idea that our culture and our churches are creating “Christian Nice Guys” and in doing so are damaging our families, our boys, our men, and [...]