What is the best investment you ever made? Have you ever been able to invest a relatively small amount and experience a great return? Dads, place your buy order now for Father-Daughter Campout Inc....
Sometimes, in order to find a group of folks you can belong to you need to make some moves. One philosopher and poet (Winnie-The-Pooh) put it this way: “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”...
Small groups are about so much more than marriage repair and rescue. They are about helping people experience life to the fullest as Jesus spoke of in John 10:10. They are about helping others have a great race in this life....
When I was 8 years old, I was at church when my teacher told my class about this guy Jesus, who came to earth to die on the cross for our sins, and rose from the dead 3 days later. ...
A few summers ago, some guys and I went camping and climbing at Mineral Wells State Park together. We were all believers and were pretty serious about following Jesus. ...
Last week we had 150 teenagers at our church from HCBC Pflugerville, Hutto Bible Church, and Wells Branch Community Church for Boot Camp. ...
The recent rains have brought both blessing and hardship. Many local families have suffered significant loss. In an instant their worlds have gone from normal day in day out duties and routines to calamity and chaos, anything but routine. ...
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* What's Your Story? As followers of Christ we all have a time that we made the choice to follow Him. We all have a story. We also (usually) choose to live in such a way that demonstrates and declares the love of Jesus to all...
Keep ReadingAs a photographer, I have experienced the progressive change from developing film in a dark room to downloading digital files. While the quality of digital images was debated for few years during the growing pains of change, ultimately we have come to accept the use of modern technology to capture memories which we'd like to preserveand also some we'd rather not.While the ...
Keep Reading"The most common thread among the chronically homeless is loss of family." This was such a powerful discovery. Before my experiences of this week I would have guessed the common thread of homelessness was substance abuse or challenged mental health. Due to the loss of any sense of community, be it school or church or family, your motive for living well and pursuing the ha...
Keep ReadingKnowing if a choice that I make is based on faith or foolishness is a lifelong internal struggle for me. I recall experiences like choosing a college, leaving a job, and purchasing a car as a few examples. I certainly desire to make choices that line up with God's will. But how do I know, exactly, what that WILL is? As for all things in life, God answers that in his word g...
Keep ReadingWould you pray for me? In times of desperation we are game to let anyone and everyone pray for us. But you know on their time, at their convenience, in their head. Please and thank you. Oh, you want to pray rightNOW? Out loud?WITHme? Um. Shoot. Awkward. But ok, I guess I can't argue with someone being more spiritual than me. Here goes! "Yeah, what they said God. Amen." ...
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