An Ordinary Guy

It gets really frustrating sometimes having to deal with all the junk that comes from doing pastoral work.

And then every once in awhile God let’s you know it is all worth it!

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

Amazing Grace Techno – Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

The pie and the leftovers from Thanksgiving. I think the soldiers we invited over enjoyed it.

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I kept saying to myself over and over “so true, so true”

I am almost ashamed to say the words own worst enemy because i would be comparing myself to this guy It is sad when hate becomes so great that it overshadows God’s grace.

Actually now that I think about it… I am not going to even come close to putting myself at the level of this guy… OK yeah that guy claims to be a Christian Pastor, who is praying for the death of the “authority placed over him by God”, let alone praying for the death of a husband and father!  So okay I am not a Christian if that is what a Christian does.  I am however a follower of Christ.  A Christian may act/be like that but a follower of Christ wouldn’t.

You ever wonder what really constitutes success of failure in ministry? Why is it that one person is deemed successful over someone else?

I think failure is pretty easy to figure out, but what about success? Is success having large numbers in a big church with a nice website, twitter account, large staff, a podcast?? Or is it being faithful and grace-full for what, where and who God has you ministering to?

This is a great album, I love their cover of Flyleaf’s “All Around Me”

I was asked the question:  Why do Christians, pastors especially pastors try so hard to justify their faith in quantitative methods?

Maybe one answer is that they do this to bring legitimacy to the “truth” they believe in??  I don’t know, but what happens when we begin to try and quantify God, we end up with God in a box and the mystery of who He is becomes diminished to nothing but facts and figures.