Light at the end of the Tunnel

A few days ago, my wife was doing her late summer, get the houses clean before the fall gets here, jobs. She looked over at me and said, "if you keep that look very long, you will have a permitnent crease in your forehead. For some reason, I was squinting at something on the computer screen. We both laugh and then I thought of the remodel of our new building. For the first part of the project, it seem like some many things were piled on on top of the other that it was hard to see the end. But Last week, as our project manager and I was talking, he said "I think I see some light at the end of the tunnel."

So what does these to stories have to do with each other? I think many times, we close out the light with our squinting. The light is there, but we let the layers of life to darken our approach to long term projects. Yes, I would have to admit, for short periods of time, this remodeling project has been dark because of the many jobs that had to get done, but with the help of God and a wonderful team of helpers, God has let in the light.

So if you are in a long term project, oh, lets say, our life, when things seem dark, stop squinting

Have an Awesome Day

David

The Sharp Tongue

Yesterday, some of my friends were having a talk about the tongue. I had found some great encouragement from a man by the name of William Norris. I shared from a book of his the seven times to hold you tongue. Well, my friend Paul and I must be reading the same book. Paul designs our custom bible reading program and started out is weekly study with this quoit from William. “If your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak; of whom you speak; and how, and when, and where.”

These words go with one of the things that was brought up yesterday... in order to become better talkers, we need to become better thinkers. Oh how many times were our words destroyed people in the past would of been avoided if we would of just stopped and thought before we talked

Have an Awesome Day

David

Paint?

I'll be painting this week . . .our church with it's 18,000 sf of wall will all look fresh and new at the end of this week. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here.

If you have time, come and help! We would love to have you.

Have an Awesome Day

David

Going Fishing?

So at church Sunday, the wife of one of our leadership team came up to me and said that her husband would not be at church because he got the opportunity to go deep sea fishing. My answer was blah blah blah . . with the over tones of disdain that he wasn't with us.

As I was teasing her, the words spoken by our worship leader came to mind . . .in a recent teaching he spoke these words from a book that he was reading that went something like this.

Religion is sitting in church thinking about fishing . . .spirituality is sitting by a creek fishing and thinking about God.

We don't want to think that "the Church" would get in the way of our pursuit of God, and I'm not here to promote the de-churching of America, but I think, if we are not careful, we can allow the events of the church to be an obstacle of growth.

The challenge of church leadership is simply how we can create a climate were both would take place at the same time and at the same place

Have an Awesome Day

David