Ministry Reports & Blog Posts

August 16, 2021

OVERWATCH

Special Forces operators have unique requirements in terms of both protection and provision. My role in the US Marines involved tactical connections to Marine Force Recon units (the USMC’s special operations force), since I was...

August 15, 2021

TURN ON THE LIGHT

I recently read an article about how to properly light an Electronic Dance Music (or EDM) event like a rave. Light is a major part of the experience in those events. First of all, you’ve...

August 14, 2021

FUN

Some of the things that people call “fun” are  pretty strange.  Did you know that “Duck Herding” is popular in the UK?  I’ve even seen an article that described it as a “competitive sport.”  It...

August 13, 2021

SURE THING

I’ve heard that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, I cannot argue that both death and taxes are certainties. Governments are always going to be taxing their people. The level...

August 12, 2021

I LOVE LOVING YOU

Leadership — whether in a family, a church or a business — is truly about love.  One cannot lead well unless one can truly love well.  Despots and tyrants may be in charge, but that...

August 11, 2021

POLLUTED

Nobody likes pollution; not of any sort.  We prefer clean and fresh. New and unused.  In fact, there are some situations where we automatically assume that what we buy or use is pure and clean. ...

August 10, 2021

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?

Queen (the British rock band of the 1970’s, not the British monarch) asked the question, “Who wants to live forever?” There’s a few things they got right, too. In their song they sang that, “This...

August 9, 2021

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

Whenever someone has told me that something that is about to happen is for my own good, it hasn’t often SEEMED to be good. Spankings I received from my parents as a child come to...

August 8, 2021

STREAMS OF FAITH

This morning I’m going to unpack a little bit of the importance of how the three streams of faith… The evangelical, the Sacramental, and the Pentecostal…  ALL WORK TOGETHER. They work together because they reflect...

August 7, 2021

DRESSED FOR SUCCESS

Last month I wrote a devotional called FIGHTING NAKED. ( If you missed it, you can read it at www.ceec.church/210716 ) My point was as simple as could be – DON’T !!! But there’s a...

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