I was at in line at the grocery store the other day buying almond milk eggnog and some ground beef. It was two days after Thanksgiving. The clerk asked the customer in front of me how she was doing. The…

I’m excited about the next month at The Water’s Edge. WE are going to be talking about and experiencing Christmas. Christmas is a season some people wait for all year. It is a season other people dread. Christmas is a…

Some experience Thanksgiving as a long weekend in late November. Others see it as the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. Others feast in a four-day fest of dozens of kickoffs and hours of watching football. Others enjoy a feast…

Hey Church Family – Create a Ripple concludes on Sunday, November 18th. It is a three-year debt reduction campaign that will allow us to do two things: Spend less money on interest and more money on ministry and missions. Strategically put…

We live in an age of entitlement. Entitlement is the belief that you deserve preferences, resources, and special treatment that others do not. Entitlement is like the alphabet, “I” comes before “u”. Here are seven ways to know if you…

This weekend we start Create a Ripple in worship. The best ripples are created by praying. So, I’ll be talking about prayer. One of the best nuggets of advice I have received is: “Go where your best prayers lead you.”…

My oldest son is looking at colleges and majors these days. Next year he’ll be at a school somewhere studying something. Don’t know where or what. One of the majors he is interested in is communication studies. I was looking…

I had a colleague ask me late last week how I was going to address the events in Washington D.C. during Sunday morning worship. I told her I wasn’t. My sermon on kindness was done. Got a baptism scheduled. Going…