19 Feb 2012, Posted by spittingimage in Character, Leadership, Life Skills, Significance, Values, 0 Comments

Discipleship 201

If you have read any of my posts and/or seen any of my references about Men of Faith (our men’s group at my church) then you would know how passionate I am about seeing spiritual growth in peoples lives.

Our men’s group, since my co-leader and I have taken the leadership role about 5 years ago, has seen spiritual growth in positive ways.  We have witnessed men getting connected:  To their families, friends, church and daily walk with the Lord.  It is humbling and exciting to watch this process and to be a witness to the Holy Spirit in men’s lives – Wow!   (more…)

16 Feb 2012, Posted by Lance in Character, Life Skills, Significance, 1 Comments

Creating Sticky Faith in Your Children

Recently, I was asked to sit on a steering panel to interview potential youth pastors and youth programs, and to prepare for this I wanted to look at which youth programs and churches were beating these overwhelming odds.

03 Feb 2012, Posted by spittingimage in Character, Life Skills, Significance, Values, 2 Comments

8 Years

Tomorrow marks my first born’s eighth birthday and my wife and I are throwing him an “around the World” birthday part.  Rooms have been transformed into China, Russia, Italy, The USA , Mexico, The Caribbean Islands, Ireland and Australia.  Games will be played through each Country except for Italy (they will be making their own Pizza’s) and the USA (they will be eating a cake designed as a flag).   (more…)

29 Jan 2012, Posted by Lance in Character, Life Skills, Values, 1 Comments

The Wonder Years

Recently, my kids and I starting watching the old TV series the Wonder Years thanks to Streaming Netflix and the Roku box. I remember watching it as a kid and I used to have a big crush on Winnie! Now that I’m older and my kids are at this age, it’s amazing how clothes, technology, and fads change but the fundamental challenges and excitement of these years are similar regardless of which decade you grew up in.

24 Jan 2012, Posted by spittingimage in Character, Life Skills, 0 Comments

Anger

The Bible gives us a lot of warnings about anger and how we should guard against such things.  James 1:¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, ²⁰ because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” (more…)