I am convinced that unless we revisit important and key values in any area of life that we tend to drift into the mindless complexity imposed upon us by our culture.  If we do not constantly go back to what is our purpose and mission for life and orchestrate our daily decisions around these values, we become enslaved to the “tyranny of the urgent” in daily...

It’s a “no-no” to use the word “stupid” in the Butcher household but sometimes you just have to use the right word to describe something. I came across something that is just plain STUPID! I repeatedly talk about the fact that unfortunately Christians are often known more for what they are “AGAINST” rather than what they are...

Yesterday Craig did an awesome job kicking off our “Griswold Family Christmas” series.  Craig shared from the life of Job and emphasized how life simply doesn’t go our way sometimes. We all go through tough seasons of life but that is when HOPE matters the most.  “If we don’t have HOPE we don’t have anything.” We have hope...

Let me first say:  DON’T MISS THIS SUNDAY! We begin a brand new series this Sunday morning titled “The Griswold Family Christmas” as we head into the Christmas season. This series will be fun and challenging as we look at maintaining a focus on what really matters for families during the Christmas season. Stress and dysfunction can steal the hope,...

Here is a great story from a book I recently read titled, The Revolutionary Communicator.  Notice the emphasis on personal prayer. Nico Smith, like most Afrikaners of his era in South Africa, grew up drinking a doctrine of white superiority with his mother’s milk.  When the 1948 elections brought the Afrikaner Nationalists to power, nineteen-year-old Nico took to...

I will never forget standing in the cafeteria at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Kennesaw, GA on September 11, 2001 turning to see my pastor, Mike Linch, walking into the school like he was late for something.  He begin to tell us how a plane had hit one of the twin towers in Manhattan and we all went to the school office to watch on a television monitor as another...