More Than Today

I was listening to a book the other day and the author suggested that a good way to actually engage in conversation with people who have different ideas than ours is to say, "of course, I could be wrong." It really struck me, something that I would have to keep thinking about and seeing how I felt about that. What would it mean if on any issue on which I have an opinion, obviously thinking that I am correct, that I would express myself and also say, "of course, I could be wrong." If I were on the receiving end of that phrase wouldn't I be glad that they were open to that possibility and wouldn't it draw me in more to a real discussion? The problem is that I can get very opinionated. Oh, I may cover that up better than some (or most, if I really am expressing my opinion here ;) but I still have deeply held thoughts that have become very important to me. I think I 'm right and so that means that others are wrong. We need to have right and wrong beliefs,

Five years ago, March 2010, God showed me that we should plant churches in North Carolina.   Not knowing anyone there, I posted an ad on Craigslist which remained unanswered for 16 months. No one responded, not even a bad candidate. Not even a response trying to sell me something. Nothing at all. I had one person as my prayer partner on this. Then I reposted it in July 2011. That time I began to get responses immediately. I often think about, what if I had not posted it again? What if I had just let the idea go? No one responded and only a couple of people knew I had even thought about this so it would have been easy to think of it as just one idea that didn't work. Sometimes it takes time and I am so thankful I didn't let it go. By September of that year, 2011, several of us went to Raleigh and began to meet and interview possible church planters. Meanwhile I kept working as Worship Pastor in Dover, Pennsylvania at Friendship Community Church. At that point I started taki

Today I am packing again. Seems like I just got home from a vacation trip a few days ago...and before that a trip south...and before that... Anyway, I do like to travel and I like to help people who help people fall in love with Jesus...over and over. I am one of those people who continually falls in love with Jesus and am so thankful for his love for me. So tonight I will fly out of Baltimore Washington International airport, BWI, to Charlotte, North Carolina. Today is the  start of a 12 day trip, ( it would be a minor trip for Justin Meier   , a close by trip for Don Dennison and Ben Tobias and Caleb and Christina Acosta. And yes, I will pack it all in one suitcase. The memories from this trip will fill more than the biggest of suitcases. The friendships, the conversations, the laughs, the sometimes difficult discussions...and trying to be true to Jesus through it all. I am far from perfect. And I am so in wonder that God would use a person like me to impact the world. But that