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I Need Your Help!

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I want to live a pure and holy life.  I want to seek and find more of God.  I want to love my wife and be loved by her with a love that grows sweeter and sweeter as we grow older and older.  I believe that all of this is part of my living worthy of the calling that God has placed upon my life.

Please pray for me that I will work for victory in the following areas of my life:

Relationships – I don’t want to become so busy doing ministry that I become detached from those that I love and that love me!  God has made it clear to me over the past few weeks that these relationships with family and friends are vital!  I cannot do and be all that God has called me to do and be by myself!  I need the people that God has put around me – I need you and I need your prayers.  Please pray that I will build, develop and grow the very special relationships that God has blessed me with!

Presentation – I have been dealing with this one for the past several years.   I am a representative of God – what does a representative of God look like and act like?  There are a lot of different opinions on this one!  Some think that you should be in a suit and tie all of the time and others think that it really does not matter what you wear.  I am beginning to think that you should be yourself – your very best self for God and for His glory.  Paul said that he became whatever he needed to, so that he might be a witness for Christ.  Pray that I will be what God wants me to be and that He will get all the glory as I witness and share Him with others!

Health – I am not as young as I used to be and while I have always been a very healthy person, I know that I have taken a lot for granted.  I need to take care of my physical body with the same intensity that I give to the spiritual part of my life!  This means that I will eat better, exercise regular and get proper rest.  Pray that I will not take my good health for granted, but that I will show my appreciation by doing my part to protect it!

Thanks for your help, prayers, love and encouragment!

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Worthy Of The Calling?

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I am honored to be called by God to serve as a pastor of His church!  I have always tried to work hard to honor God and give Him glory, while building His church and encouraging His people.  I have tried and failed to live a life worthy of the calling that God has given me.  (Ephesians 4:1)  Some days I seem to really get it right and then some days I seem to really mess it up.  I don’t want to think that I have arrived, because the truth is:  the closer I get to God the more I realize just how much more room for growth there is in my life.  I also don’t want to get discouraged and give up, because if God has called me, He has also given me the ability.  So, I recommit myself to the calling that God has placed upon my life and will do everything that I can to live a life worthy of that calling!

 

 

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Missing Home!

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It has been great for me and my family to get away to visit with some other ministries and take some time to enjoy some vacation from our normal everyday duties!  I have honestly done much better at this vacation thing than I thought I would.  I have not worked on any sermon stuff – and that is saying a lot for me, because almost everything I see, read or think almost always leads to a sermon.  I have missed preaching just a little bit, but really the break has been good.  I have not taken a serious break from preaching since I first started pastoring in 1992.

While I have done good at not doing the sermon thing.  I have not been quiet so disciplined in the area of being a pastor.  In fact, I have thought a lot about Northwood and all of the people that make Northwood so special.  The truth is, we just can’t help it!  Northwood is more than a church to me and my family – Northwood is a family to my family and Northwood is home!  While I have enjoyed some time to enjoy and learn in different environments, I am thankful for a home to head home to and looking forward to the day that we get back there.  Until then, I hope everyone knows how much we love them and just in case they don’t, I know that I will be sure to tell them when I get home!