We are about to wrap up our trip to American Indian Christian Mission, our mission trip for this summer. If you haven’t read my first post about this trip, you can see it here. It’s been a really great trip. There are 24 people from our church on this trip, mostly teens. And they’ve been…
Mission 2011 – Summer Mission Trip To American Indian Christian Mission
For the last several months, I’ve been planning and putting together a youth mission trip for our church. We are on that trip right now. As I have the opportunity, I will post updates on our trip here , so that you can follow along. We left last Friday morning and started our trip to…
Memorize The Sermon On The Mount – Week 24
Prayer. Out of all the instructions that Jesus gave, this is perhaps one of the most important. The model prayer that Jesus taught us appears in Matthew 6, and this weeks passage introduces that entire section. You can find it at Matthew 6:5-6. Before Jesus gives us a model prayer, he gives us a couple…
Book Review: The Little Red Book Of Wisdom by Mark DeMoss
I finished reading Mark DeMoss’ book The Little Red Book Of Wisdom this afternoon. I have to be honest; I really didn’t expect to enjoy this book. My initial impression was that it would be too much like all the Life’s Little Instruction Books: cheesy and trite. But upon digging into this book, I was…
How an iPad 2 Is Helping Me Become More Environmentally Friendly
I bought an iPad 2 last week. On hearing this, a friend of mine commented that I have finally, fully converted to “the dark side.” Not too long ago, I purchased a MacBook Air on Quibids. I use it almost exclusively for writing. About a month ago, I added the iPhone to my list of…
Memorize The Sermon On The Mount – Week 23
This week’s passage completes the teaching on giving that began with the start of Matthew 6. Jesus teaches here that our giving should be done solely from the motivation of being for God; not so that others will see and congratulate us. This week’s passage is found in Matthew 6:3-4. Giving is an affair that…