Years ago while driving in snowy Colorado, my 1982 black Plymouth Turismo got stuck in a huge drift and was partially submerged. Thankfully, I was able to call a tow truck driver who got me unstuck.  Getting stuck is an all too familiar story in the Christian life. We reach those moments where we aren’t growing and even more problematic, not practicing the spiritual disciplines which help us be mo...  Read More

Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?  - Job   Read More

   I feel for moms today.  I really do. There’s immense pressure today on you to move up the mommy ladder of success.  “Did you see the snacks Johnny’s mother brought to the t-ball game?” They were packaged in a nice snack box, I better up my game!”   “That mom went all out for teacher appreciation week at school!”  You get the point.  Social media hasn’t helped.   Through social media we witness ...  Read More

   We are a culture that is serious about our food. We have an entire TV network devoted to it!  We’re so serious that we even have competitions centered on eating! In fact, there are actual “professional” leagues for competitive eating! Now, I imagine plenty of you have seen competitive hotdog eating before, but did you know there are actually lots of different food competitions? Crawfish, Onions...  Read More

   Over the last two weeks I’ve been writing about “How to BLESS Your Neighbor” which is all about our purpose of “leading people to love and live for Jesus right where they are”.  The aim is to equip you with five missional practices that are central to living out the Jesus mission. I’m challenging you to identify the people and the places we’ve been called to BLESS.  Last week I challenged you t...  Read More

How to BLESS Your Neighbor - Begin with Prayer   “Nothing Like that ever happens to me.” Extraordinary moments where you are a recipient of a random act of kindness or a winner of a drawing.  I used to say that until it happened to me.  I won baseball tickets!  I couldn’t believe it.   Sometimes we have the same attitude towards divine moments—moments when God uses us in an unexpected way to bless...  Read More

Taglines have a way of sticking in our heads and enduring. And maybe the most well-known slogan of all is…  “Just do it.” – Nike.FCC has a slogan too. “Real Hope for Real People”   Ties in nicely with our purpose at FCC-to lead people to love and live for Jesus right where they are.  But, it’s one thing to know it and another to do it.  Now, the interesting thing about a slogan is that you can kno...  Read More

As we are in the weeks leading up to Easter, I’m focusing on what the cross achieved.  Perhaps, the most familiar victory of the cross to Christians is forgiveness.  That is, on the cross, Jesus bore the penalty for sinners.  That’s most certainly true and it’s an achievement that we dare not forget.  But that’s not the only achievement.  According to Romans 6.  Because Jesus died to sin, we can w...  Read More

Can you guess what the top ten phobias of all time are?  10.  Fear of holes 9.   Fear of flying 8.   Fear of germs 7.  Claustrophobia-fear of small spaces 6.  Fear of thunder and lighting 5.  Fear of dogs 4.  Fear of open or crowded spaces 3.  Fear of heights 2.  Fear of snakes 1.  Fear of spiders-Remember that movie, Arachnophobia?  We all have some sort of fear.  Fear of crowds, fear of the futu...  Read More

The Stuck ChurchRevelation 3:1-6     If you are a fan of the movie, Napoleon Dynamite, you most definitely will remember Uncle Rico.   What did Uncle Rico was always do?  He would always talk about the good old days. It’s okay to reminisce about the past but it’s not okay to live in it.  You may know people like this. They always tell the same stories about memories and momentous occasions. It sou...  Read More

“The Wisdom of Setting Goals”Proverbs 16:1,9Each new year is an opportunity to hit the reset button and reach those goals we call resolutions.  With that in mind, I want us to glean some wisdom today on setting goals or making resolutions from Proverbs 16.  When it comes to setting goals, we can approach them unwisely or wisely. Before we cover the wise approach to setting goals, let’s consider un...  Read More