Inside Out People

I get to have conversations about God a lot in my life.  When I meet people, they usually find out that I am a pastor, and they either totally avoid the subject of God or they pour out their questions they have always wanted to ask.  Many times I am as deeply affected by the conversations as the other person is, and some of those conversations stick in my mind.  There is one of those conversations from at least 3 years ago that hangs out in my memory and won’t go away.  As I was reading John 17.6-8 my mind(…)

I sit here in Costa Rica this morning, sent by Calvary Church to check out and make preparations for a summer mission project that we will be leading in August. It is very beautiful and the birds singing out their worship to their creator is inspiring. This is only a short trip, for on Wednesday I return to Calvary.

I want to focus our attention on a little bit longer journey that each of us are on. To do this I turn to one of the most intimate passages in Scripture. (…)

What are you filled with? What am I filled with?

At first that seems like a difficult or weird question to answer. But if I ask someone else to describe you or me, they are probably going to use some words that begin or end in “full”! And honestly on different days I might be described in different words…one day I may be described as “joyful” but another, “spiteful”, or “full of love”, or “playful”, or acting in “hurtful” ways, etc.

We describe each other like this because we see the things coming out of a person as what(…)