Ministry Reports & Blog Posts

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...

August 6, 2021

COME AS YOU WERE

The previous lives of the children of light form a list of disgusting attributes. Sexually immoral folk who took unfair advantage of the weak. People who made idols out of anything they loved; from jobs,...

August 5, 2021

WIMP

On the outside I can come across as fairly strong and very self-reliant. I have a t-shirt that says, “An enemy that is fearless has never met a Marine.” That kind of sums it up....

August 4, 2021

YOU MAKE ME GLAD

Last night I was reminded again why I love the CEEC.CHURCH so much. There is NO ONE like our people! OK, I understand that there are probably many leaders who feel exactly that way about...

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