Being Comfortable with Who You are in God

August 24, 2006 | By Dan

As I begin to go to church more and get comments on this site it causes me to have more self refection about who I am and what I believe.

Last night at church our Pastor talked about the reason that our church was there. It’s purpose was to influence people for the gospel, to be a shining light in the darkness. He talked about how he and his wife heard God tell them to come to our area and start a church and how that simple act of obedience has effected thousands. He said that the main reason why they stepped out in faith was that they had a burden for the people of our area. They had God’s heart.

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Wrong E-mail Address for Comments

August 24, 2006 | By Dan

I just wanted to post an apology to those that have left comments on a couple of my posts.

I did not see the comments until today because I had the wrong email address registered to send comment notifications to.

Sorry! Comments are approved and responses will come soon.

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Church on Sunday and a Little More Direction From God

August 14, 2006 | By Dan

The wife and I made it to church last weekend and were feeling pretty good about ourselves. We had a renewal to go to church and were even beginning to consciously look for direction to God.

In last week’s service they announced the first of a few classes to become members of the church and eventually serve in a ministry within the church. Feeling good we signed up for class that was supposed to be this past Sunday.

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Taking a Stand to do Things God’s Way

August 14, 2006 | By Dan

Sometimes you want something that is right and good and God wants to give it to you but you are so used to the way that things have always been that you do not realize what he is trying to do for you.

Ever since my first child was born, my wife after 6 weeks of maternity leave would go back to work. With our move from California to Texas during her pregnancy she did not have a job to go back to this time. Therefore she started the job hunt.

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Church – 3 Services in 2 Weeks – Cool

August 7, 2006 | By Dan

Well I really haven’t posted since my – No Church in 3 Weeks – And Counting – post. Well I am happy to say that we have been to 3 services in the last 2 weeks and it feels good.

We went to 2 Wednesday services and 1 Sunday service. We missed one Sunday services because we were convinced that the kids were falling a sleep on the way to church so we did not go. They ended up staying up until well past when service would have been over. They are going no matter what next time.

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What Would Jesus Do – With 3 Kids?

July 18, 2006 | By Dan

What would have Jesus have done if he had kids while in ministry?

Do you think that he would have been able to touch the world like he did in 3 1/2 years? I mean I know that he was fully God but he was also a man too.

I think that Jesus would have taken the necessary time off from ministry to make sure that His family was established and doing well and then I think that he would have slowly gotten back into it as the kids got older.

See these are the things that I think about from time-to-time about serving God and being a husband and a father. I have to remind myself that my kids are young and that they need my wife and I to do just about everything for them for the next few years.

The difficult part in this is that I feel that I am left alone to figure this stuff out by myself. Well I am glad that I have God there to show me the way :-) .


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Interesting Concept – Christian Ministry Job Web Site

July 18, 2006 | By Dan

I grew up in a church where you did not get in to a ministry position without earning it from the ground up. As I have begun to attend different ministries though I find that church often are willing to hire outside of the ministry to meet the needs of the congregation.

I do not think that their is anything wrong with that, it is just different to me. I guess the hope of most ministries is that they would be able to raise someone up within the church to meet these positions. If not then they use a service like christianplacements.com.

Christian Placement appears to be a Monster.com type of web site that is aimed specifically at the Christian community. I would think that this would aid Ministries in finding the right person. I took the time to browse the posts but there are not any positions that I was interested in locally ;-) .


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No Church in 3 Weeks – And Counting

July 16, 2006 | By Dan

Well we were going good for 3 weeks, the kids were cool everything was fine. Then for the last 3 weeks we have not been.

The first week was because we had out-of-town guests. The second was because my wife’s parents were out of town (not sure why that was a factor). This past weekend was because I was kind of tired and had got busy going some other things.

They are really weak reasons excuses but that is why we have not been there. We are not planning on going this Sunday either – more guests. Instead we are planning on hitting the mid-week service. I have been told that the mid-week service is even better then the Sunday Service so I am looking forward to that.

I have to say that I feel the difference between going to church and not going to church. I am more tired, irritated, and less excited about life in general without going to church. I look forward to going back.


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The Next Step in Returning to Church – Christian Fellowship

June 26, 2006 | By Dan

My wife and I went to church again this weekend – this is 3 weeks in a row now :-) . This time we took my 6 week old son for the first time so It was my wife, my 2 sons, my daughter, and I – the family of 5.

My oldest son loves church. As soon as he pulls up he can not wait to get to class. My daughter on the other hand has not got used to it yet.

Last week when we dropped her off and she cried for most of the time. This week wasn’t that different so we took her in service with us. After about 10 minutes I decide to try and take her back to class. As soon as we got there she started crying again so I decided to go and check on my youngest son on the nursery.

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Father’s Day Service Rocked

June 21, 2006 | By Dan

I have to say that the more I go to church the more I like it.

This past Sunday was a whole lot different then any service that I had attended in a long time. I was relaxed and having a good time worshiping God. It was really cool.

The coolest thing was that I was having a good time before the real cool stuff started to happen.

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