Family

Family

I can't think of anything more precious short of God's grace than family. I am thankful for my wife of twenty years and all of my children. I am also glad for my mom and dad and siblings I grew up with. Through it all I can see a tapestry of life woven into me..through the joys and pains, disappontments and sorrows I am still blessed to belong. My own kids challenging me everyday but I would not trade them for anything. Each one of them is so unique in there own way and that's the way it should be. I hope to encourage them to become all they can be. That is Gods plan for their lives realized. That will be so different for each of them and that is good. Janine make my life a shared journey and a partner in life. I am blessed to not be alone but to live with my best friend. I am also thankful for the RLC church family who has blessed me beyond measure. What a privelage to serve these amazing people! Not being perfect we are discovering what God is doing to us and in us all to give praise to Jesus. I am also so thankful for Teen Challenge Girls Home in Kansas City including director Doug Anderson. The difference you have made in my own daughter and family leaves me without words. I love this ministry and thank God for it! Finally I am so blessed to have a God, Jesus Christ who just does not give up on me but walks me into healing with my own hurts, hang-ups and habits. A recovery church was His idea and we are recipients!!

What is the Box?

The way you stop sinning is by getting God-sized vision that consumes all your time and energy.

Wow. What a thought to consider. If I only would have read that thirty years ago! Yet I've always felt that in my heart. I have been accuses many times for being so intense and told to mellow out. But I am a big dreamer and I can't help but think hard questions that wander outside of the box. Ever wonder what "the box" is anyway? It is the status quo. It's excepting that things are the way they are supposed to be becuase that is what everyone has been taught. So to be busy about the vision must look like something you can't find in the box because the box keeps us inward focused or bored with things. I have to ask... Where do we go from here? What would happen if we actually did what we preached or learned about? Why is it this way and is that what God meant for us to do with it? Etc. On the other hand, when I am bored I rather say, "this is the way it is so I may as well get some pleasure now. Afterall, what else is there?" huh? There is so much more! Turn up the intensity and let's carry the vision!