Month: April 2009
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Missing the point
Expectations are a good thing…most of the time. I expect certain behavior from my kids. As a leader, certain things are expected of me. I wouldn’t have it any other way. BUT…too often, confused expectations cost us. We expect “the pastor” to BE THE ONE who visits us in the hospital. We expect that his…
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God with skin on
We live in a world filled with gods. So we need to understand what makes Jesus so unique. He wasn’t a man becoming a god; that’s impossible. He was God who became a man. Sometimes we view God as distant and unapproachable, but our God is the one who loved us so much he wanted…