Man Camp 2014

From Kevin Funk… As I sit here during the ride home from Miracle Camp, I’m trying to figure out how I can pack about 100 memories and takeaways into my blog. Let me start with the man who poured out his heart to more than 350 men this weekend. Ron Hutchcraft. As all of us men can […]

Secret Service Pastor

Shhhh….Don’t tell him I took this picture…. But I wanted you to see it. It’s almost as good as capturing a photo of Bigfoot. And not because he’s tall and has large shoes. And not because it’s rare. But because it’s rare. Let me explain… Folks, what we have here is a bonafide “Secret Service […]

God Speaks Through Our Kids

From Matt Wiegand… I appreciate how our Father in heaven speaks to us through our kids. Seems as though as I parent my boys, I continue to recognize areas in my life God is sanctifying me in. Recently I noticed my son struggling with worrying about what others might think. It was almost handicapping his […]

Snapshots from Week 5 of The Adventure

Here are some excerpts from week 5 of ‘The Adventure’ (The Work of Staying in Love). Song of Solomon 5:2-6:13. Listen to the full message audio here. Our marriages should be marked by a continual growth. That our relationship, and how we interact with one another as husband and wife, should continually be transformed by the […]

Snapshots from Week 4 of The Adventure

Here are some excerpts from week 4 of ‘The Adventure’ (The Honeymoon). Song of Solomon 4:1-5:1. Listen to the full message audio here. God’s design is not for you to either idolize sex, making it the basis of your relationship, nor to have a sexless, joyless marriage or to avoid the subject like the plague. Rather, […]

Shifting Blame

As I look back on my life, I can see how I tried to shift the blame or point the finger at someone or something else. I see it in my kids sometimes, how they are quick to blame the other person for their own wrong doing instead of owning up to it. “Well she […]

Snapshots from Week 3 of The Adventure

Here are some excerpts from week 3 of ‘The Adventure’ (The Wedding). Song of Solomon 3:6-11. Listen to the full message audio here. One of the current thoughts on marriage, if you were to ask culture, or the family or friends maybe around you, is that a husband and wife get married, and then they spend […]

Tree House

From Kevin Funk… Right now my wife and I are attending the Grace Based Parenting class at Crosspoint. It started about 3 weeks ago and already I feel like I’ve learned a lot. Since parenting is up close and personal on a weekly basis, I felt like I should pass on some info I recently […]

He Works in the Mess

I’m grateful that our God works in the midst of, and despite the mess of our lives. Do you have a spotless, blameless, and clean background and history? Yeah, neither do I. In our current study of the Song of Solomon and ‘The Adventure’ series, you might get the idea or impression that God only […]

Fellowship

From Craig Swanson… In Acts 2:42 it tells us that the early church was, “continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” The “apostles teaching” was the written down words of the apostles that we now know as the New Testament. In January I wrote […]