The smell of “grandma’s” house, the sight of a previously owned home, the voice of an old friend. These things can bring a person back to a place in the distant past and rip it open like a present (no pun intended). Now that “present of past” could be wanted such as the new iPhone […]
Fear is a strange thing. It can often motivate an otherwise rational person to things that could be considered, well …irrational. It can keep a person from experiencing things that are otherwise thrilling, eye opening or things that just make life a bit easier. Consider Joe. Joe got invited to a all expense paid trip
I want you to imagine for a moment a set of parents. Now these parents have an only child and because of this they are super protective. They are so protective that they refuse to have an oven in the house for fear of their child getting burned. This child will grow up never knowing
While I was working as manager of Homer’s Coffeehouse a few years back, one of my co-workers told me a story about her friend. Apparently, her friend was in a dating relationship and trying to stay pure despite her own temptations. She came to the conclusion that to intentionally go to a place where it
This week we opened up our new outreach campaign. Consider it the Good News of the Gospel. As followers of Jesus, we don’t want to be “salesmen/women” of our faith, but rather representatives of a loving God to this broken world. As we hand out business card sized flyers to others that say [ you
