Balancing Ministry N' Work

In some ways it is hard to believe that it has been 8 years since the team at Michigan University cut into my skull, but it really has been that long. It is like looking at your now 20 year old son and wondering where the time went. In short God is Good! He has taken care of me and my family. He has allowed me to continue to work and advance my career. While not pastoring currently, I am still doing pulpit supply as often as I can. God has even allowed me to start two new adventures... I have been elected as Aldermen to serve our great city and I am almost done with my first book. As I said, God is Good! He has never left me, He has never forsaken me, and He never will. Today I still have some of the same on-going issues that mostly show when I try to do to much (which is all the time if you ask my lovely wife). Balance is still an issue now and again. I would not be able to pass a sobriety check by walking in a straight line, I still swerve some when I walk. Obviously I am still d

John 15:4 Abide in Christ Before we start, I want to make sure and wish all you ladies, young and old, a Happy Mother’s Day. Whether you are a Mother, hope to be a Mother someday, or are a Mother figure to others… you deserve our thanks. Happy Mother’s Day! Our starting point this morning is John 15:4 “Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.” Many centuries ago in a remote village in India, word was spreading that something big was about to happen. Something that no one had witnessed in their lifetime. The prince was coming to visit their remote, all but forgotten, little village. Everyone was amazed at the news that he was coming and all were excited, but the village beggar was more excited than everyone else. The beggar spent all day every day sitting on the side of the road with his little cup hoping to collect money to buy enough rice to live one more da