The Power of Forgiveness

"It's Thanksgiving. What better time than now to talk about the importance of forgiveness in our lives. Here are some thoughts on how to make your time around the table with uncle Tom and sister-in-law Gurtrude great! God knows who your relatives are... and He put you smack in the middle of it all - into that mess! Why? Probably because there's something about you that just ticks God off... God puts people in our lives because he knows that they develope us... "

The Tension of Caring

"What should we be doing as followers of Jesus to try to bless the world around us, lift hurting people, aide people in need, and help bring healing - socially and economically to those less privileged. We all want to help people, but we get stuck over a couple of issues. We don't always know how to help. Where do you start to help a world that's jammed with injustice? What do you do? We don't know how to see the hurting and really let them touch us without us feeling guilty that we have anything!"

Restoring The Fallen

In light of recent events within the evangelical Christian community, Ed shares from scripture and his own life about restoration.

Daring To Care

"I wanna talk with you about these ideas of love , compassion, and mercy. These things come from another place. They help us as believers to be “other-centered.” It's not natural for us in a fallen world because we tend to be “takers” rather than “givers” because we want all the marbles... "

Growing Up In Grace

"Growing Up In Grace "

Breathing With God

"I really think we need to fight for, contend for, and figure out ways of living transformed lives. Where our expression of faith is not just about letting our gift be on parade, or trying to find our annointing that we think will make us be more important in the world. But that we understand that God wants to fill our lives, annoint our lives with His presesence so that we can be great single people, great moms, great dads, great married folks--people who work with a little different spin on it, a different intention from the heart. And that we actually work through our stuff, and we are different... "

Reordering Your Life

" At some point everyone of us has to step back and decide what it is we believe about the world that we are in. What’s really going on here? People have to decide whether or not they believe there’s a God!
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The Disciplines

"IWhat is God actually trying to accomplish in the world and why are we here? Why do we do church? Why do we gather together? Why do we do stuff like praying and reading the Bible? When God was creating the human race, what did He have in mind? Are we giving Him what He's after in our lives...?"

The Art of Giving

“Philippians 4:19 is an interesting text that calls us to trust God in this arena of our financial provision. You might try to think it’s talking about spiritual needs, but really if you look at the context, there’s no way you can say that. Actually, he’s talking about God getting engaged and involved with us in this arena of provision: jobs, salary increases, bonuses, ideas for new kinds of endeavors that can produce wealth or increase in your life. God will actually get in the mix of that in your life…”

Show Me The Money!

"I wanna talk about your money. I think this touches all of us in a way that we need to think thru… “

Facing Change

“Life is full of seasons (Ecclesiastes 3:1). The only thing that never really changes is the fact that life is full of change. You can fear change and resist it, or you can embrace it. Change is coming! It’s inevitable…”

Have A Good Day

The scripture says, Jesus said to them, "go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation!" Everybody say "go!" We still have to own this as believers, the idea that we've got to communicate with others outside of ourselves, the claims of Jesus. You know that we are living in a culture where everybody is saying "don't talk to me about anything because you're perspective is only valid to you. Don'y try to communicate that to me. Let's all just get along and be tolerant of each other." And so, at the very heart of this call to go into the world that we are in and communicate with people something more than what they value or think about is a bit of a challenge. Even though I think we need to do it respectfully, we still need to do it. And we need to figure out how we can own up before God to this idea that there's a message that we have and a life that we have that we're supposed to communicate to others.

The Life of Faith

"I want to talk to you a little bit about taking charge of your life and what that looks like..."

Who is God?

"Last time we were chatting we were talking about knowing God. We are not just embracing a bunch of ideas about God. We are facing the actual being of God..."

Knowing God

"What does it mean to know God? I mean how is it that we come to know anything?"

Father's Day

You know Father's Day can be both a bitter and a sweet thing...

The Future is Coming

Sometimes people ask questions like "will anyone remember me when I'm gone? " In Judeo Christian thought there has always been this idea that each one of us was created to matter...

Priorities

Here is a great question:
With all the areas we have to deal with in life, from God, to kids, to marriage, to our employment, to family to ministry, how do we deal with it all without becoming overcommitted or burned out? (more...)

Mother's Day

Ever since the Fall of man there has been a kind of battle of the sexes going on where the men try to one-up women and vice-versa. God never intended that to be. He intended that there be a mutual respect and honor for each other.

So let’s start some controversy with the question:

We always call God Father, but could we call him mother?(more...)

The Importance of Conversation

I want to talk w/you this morning about a truth I discovered years ago that was very surprising…it has to do with what we say about God, about others, and ourselves, and about the circumstances we find ourselves in.(more...)