June 2012
Why you care that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce.
I just heard that after 5 years of marriage Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are filing for divorce. Some of you aren’t surprised or are not interested, but most of you remember Cruise announcing his undying love for Holmes on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He was excited, pumping fists, and jumping on couches! He was in love!
Yet, like many passionate relationships, it’s since fizzled out….it lost the spark and ended. Tabloids, columnists, and even pastors will now ...
What God’s Been Teaching Me…
On Sunday, we kicked off our 5-week series Pioneers of Change. In the book of Acts, Jesus ascends back to Heaven and essentially leaves a few uneducated, blue collar workers as the hope of the world. God’s grace was sufficient to change all of human history through these few people. Today God’s mission is no different. If you consider yourself a Christian, you are the hope God has given the world. Not self-righteous hope, but we’re to ...
Pioneers of Change
Say what you want about Lebron James, but he still has an NBA championship and you don’t. There was a HUGE difference between last year’s Heat and this years. Teams do change. Players even change (maybe even Lebron).
I first knew life changed quickly, when I was 17 and decided to play organized baseball for the first time since I was 9. The first home varsity game I was put in to pinch run and ended up on third base, when ...
Freedom
We recently finished a teaching series at Mercy Road called “Love that Lasts”. We tackled issues head on like dating, marriage, sex, and marital dissension…but one issue we didn’t get to was sexual abuse. This morning I read the horrific story of a man whose father sexually abused his younger sibling until he told his father to stop, offering himself instead. After two years of abuse, the young man left his home. He has since battled many years of mounting ...