No letter this year.  Infographic!

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Foundation is poured!

Thanks be to God!

Thanks be to God!

At the end of June we had our ceremonial ground breaking.

This past week – we literally broke some ground!

Look at 1:10 in the video.  Someone tall lent a helping hand.  Kinda.

For

Christmas my wife bought me a blank canvas.  It was a gift of unique possibilities. 

Abby Pimentel, a skilled artist in our church, had recently started making her paintings available for purchase.  Her specialty: Painting the Word of God.

For months the canvas sat in my office torturing me with what to place on it.  Finally I came to my decision.  I recently received the painting.

I love it!

Abby’s studio, Painting Truth, is worth checking out.  Her portfolio is here and her Facebook here.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away. - Dean Charles Stanforth, character in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Bible teaches that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away, and in either case His name is to be praised.

Does He use time, the aging process, and impending mortality to do this?  Methinks so.

It time didn’t march, and if death were not a fact, how then would we live?  Probably not as wisely as we should.

Last Sunday, August 21, was an amazing Sunday in the church we pastor.

300 in attendance at the morning services, and about 300 at an afternoon Water Baptismal Celebration.

Rejoice with me and watch this video.  Hint (Watch all the way through for a fun picture of me!)

At age 44 it is most likely that I have more yesterdays than tomorrows.

When I think of time wasted, misspent, and used for things that really don’t matter, I get wondering.

Am I pouring my life into what matters most?

Second guessing past decisions seems at best to be a depressing trip down memory lane, and at worst doubting God’s direction and Lordship over my life.

Instead I am looking forward with anticipation and expectation.  Anticipating God’s voice and expecting his direction/correction if I stray.

Lord, I am willing.  Please give me ears to hear no matter what You might be speaking. 

Having dinner with my wife for our anniversary and the topic of change came up.  We conversed back and forth about where we had lived, etc.

She then started the sentence, “One thing that has changed about you is that . . . “ –> and then I finished the sentence for her.

Not uncommon for married couples, especially for 21 years.  But The look on her face was palpable.  I nailed it. 

Perhaps the change is so obvious to anyone who has known me up close for a decade of more.

I finished her sentence with the words she was getting ready to say, “ . . . I am a lot less legalistic and more gracious.”

So thankful for change.

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