Prophecy, Dreams, Spirituality & Random Stuff
My oldest daughter has her spring break from school this week. This has allowed our family to visit my parent’s farm in West Virginia for a few days. I grew up on this farm and it is always a great reprieve from the busyness of life to visit family and friends. It affords me the …
Luke 2:8 – In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the field and keeping watch over the flock by night. It makes perfect sense that God would choose the first people to hear about the birth of His Son to be “some shepherds,” right? I mean, I would definitely pick some …
1 Samuel 3:1-7 – The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions. One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not …
Not so long, long ago, in a galaxy very, very near (actually the same galaxy) the House of Mark and Jenny ventured into the great unknown which was known by the name of the YEAR 2010. The young, heroic, good-looking duo brought along with them three trusty companions – Princess Elena Kay, Lady Cassia and …
The famous words of Reverend Martin Luther King easily spill off our lips … I have a dream… Everyone knows that the courageous civil rights crusader had a mission bigger than himself that he was working towards. Part of the power of his statement and speech is that not only was the idea inspirational, forward …
I don’t know about you, but I’m simply having a wonderful Christmastime! Yeah! I’m pretty sure I actually like Christmas more as I get older. Maybe it’s sharing it with the best wife and kids on the planet or it could be the fact that I more appreciate what Christmas really is about in my …
Tis the season to be jahrry, fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra! The Rowans have completed another spectacular year, and hope that you have experienced the same. We had all kinds of great things happen in 2008 with the most awesome being that we are expecting number 3 … Josiah Lee. He’ll …
It’s Christmas all over again …. all over again! It’s that time of year when we tell you what’s been happening with the Rowans and you sit and read totally enraptured with pure amazement and glorious wonder. Yeah, it’s that good, people. Life is good and God is great and we are all blessed to …
Foundsheep.com has finally made its appearance. Its been sitting on the web forever doing nothing, but that is about to change. Time to stop thinking and start doing. Thinking can often paralyze us from ever accomplishing what we began to think about in the first place. According to James 1:22 we are to do not …
Passion is an interesting word. It brings to mind things that we either spend to much time with or not enough. It’s impossible to be halfheartedly passionate. What are you passionate about? For some of us, our passion may be sports, work, hobbies, other people … there are no guidelines or restraints to what we …
Discipline is something that I believe many people in today’s world lack. In generations past, more emphasis was put on being disciplined. Especially in my “X generation,” discipline is an afterthought. Not to say that there are not people my age that are highly disciplined, but I think there are fewer people that adhere to …
(This is a sermon I preached back in 2002 at youth service.) I. Introduction A. Sit, stand, walk, run … which is it? 1. Paul describes Christianity as a race – 1 Corinthians 9:24 – 27 2. We also are told to walk – Deuteronomy 5:33 3. But then we are told to stand – …