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Something To Say

It's been a while since I've posted anything.  If you have been following and anticipating the next post from me, I apologize for the lack of writing!  I can't really say that I have an excuse...other than I haven't felt like I've had anything to say. And maybe sometimes you feel like that too.  You feel like you don't have anything to say... Now that's not always a bad thing.  Sometimes our tongues get us in trouble, and if that seems to happen to you a lot, not having something to say means life has been treating you a bit better! But what about as a follower of Christ? Should we be silent?  Should we feel like we have nothing to say? As a follower of Christ, you always have something to say...someone to speak to. So how do you know who to speak to?  When to say something?  Then there's the big kicker...what do you say? To answer this question, how about we look at something totally different for a minute. Take a minute and think abou...

My Shepherd

..."The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want..." That's where we left off with my last post.  Is The Lord really  my shepherd?  Or do I just trust that He will supply my needs? Well, It's now been over a year since Paige and I began this journey of trusting Him with our financial provisions with me resigning from my full time job as Youth Pastor.  Although, in some ways we've been trusting Him with that for over 8 years (our entire marriage).  It's just in the last year, it's become much more of a day to day trusting. But that still leaves the question: do we have Him as our shepherd? Well let me bring you into the past week of our lives. Life has been great, kids have been great, ministry at church has been great, everything has been amazing!  We have been doing alright financially and medically...not much more you could ask for! Then suddenly we find out that we are going to have to add a couple hundred dollars into our budget expenses each ...

The Lord Is My Shepherd?

If this is your first time reading my blog, I encourage you to go back and read the last ones.  It will all make a lot more sense if you know all the back story. So in September of 2015 I was no longer working at the church that I had moved my newly wed wife across the country, away from all family and friends, to be a Youth Pastor.  Now, what do we do?  At this point it didn't make sense to move...there was nothing better than what we had to move for.  Paige still had a job teaching Preschool at the church (of which she is amazing at and loves to do), and there wasn't a job waiting for me somewhere else...so, we stayed put.   This was a tough time for me...in many ways.  I knew in my heart that I would be in full time ministry again at some point, but had no idea when or where or what I would even be doing.  So what do I do?  Do I wait it out?  Do I find a temporary job?  Do I find a new full time career type job?   On ...

To Be or Not To Be...

About two years ago, I started to really struggle with doing Youth Ministry and having a passion for it. I had been doing it for a while and thought I was just going through a reevaluation time and that I could find the passion again. So through a bunch of prayer and evaluation, my wife and I felt God was asking us to stay and keep going. So we started diving into it again...but we knew things were going to be different because we were starting a family.  But then, in March of 2015, everything began to change. I had an annual performance review that had come up, and I knew in my heart what the results of this were going to be. You see, God was prepping my heart long before my meeting with my leadership. In that review were some tells of where my heart really was. God was releasing me, and it was now coming to light. That meeting with leadership was one of the most frightening, nerve racking, but yet freeing and peaceful times I have ever experienced. At that time I was able to clea...
Let’s Give This Try! Let me just start with this, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, and everything about me revolves around that fact.  He’s led me to this point in life and I know He will lead me through many more obstacles from here forward.  I have an amazing wife, Paige and two awesome kids, Gavin (almost 2) and Brynlee (4 months).   My hope is that as your read this blog from here forward, you will be encouraged, strengthened in your relationship with Jesus Christ, and get to know my family and I.  So, let’s get going!  Now, there is so much that I want to say and get out ‘cause God has been doing so much lately, but I think I should start from the beginning.   Back in 2002 I felt the call to step into full time, occupational ministry.  Little did I know at the time of the journey that God would take me on.  After I graduated high school, I went on to Tabor College to major in Christian Ministries focused on Youth Ministry. ...