I like the season of Lent. This is the time I dig deep and look inside myself. In the words of Alcoholics Anonymous, I take a “fearless moral inventory” of my life. I know some people make New Year’s resolutions; I prefer the internal reflection over the 40 days of Lent. No rush and no…
What kind of God do you want? Or to put it a different way, what kind of God do you believe in? John the Baptist was expecting one kind of God. A God who will bring punishment. John talked extensively to the crowds about what God is like and what God is going to do…
We’ve been spending some time on the weekends telling stories about people who found themselves in a “jam.” No likes obstacles or trouble, but they are a fact of life. Some of the most revered people of the Bible faced great difficulties. The question is not how to avoid all potential jams because we can’t….
I’ve been thinking a lot about water. Specifically, the water supply in southern Nevada. As most of you know, our water supply has been dwindling for the past 20 years. Lake Mead has served as our primary water source since 1935 when Hoover Dam was completed. As most of you know the water serves another…
We come to the last few days of the year with an eye on New Year’s Day. Even as the world has moved on from Christmas, that is the season we are in and will be until Epiphany on January 6th. I know it seems odd that it is still Christmas. After all, the stores…
This past Sunday at church, I told everyone that Rachel (my wife) made an old family cookie recipe that goes back several generations. That old Swedish cookie is called “Pepparkakor.” The house smelled wonderful as the first batch of cookies baked in the oven. The aroma took me back to when I was a child…
John weeks looked into the origins of the word Advent (the church season we are in right now) and this is what he discovered… The word Advent comes from the Latin word, “advenire”, conjugated as “adventus” which is a combination word of “ad” meaning, “to” or “toward” and “venire”, “come” which is conjugated as ventus,…
By the time I write my next article, it will be the season of Advent. We will be getting ready for the advent of our King. Before we get to that next season of the church, I want to take a moment to wish you, your family and your friends a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving….
If you worshipped with us over the past two weeks, we’ve been spending time talking about core values. These values aren’t things we aspire to be, they are things we do right now and our goal is to do them well. Our mission statement and our core values are clearly described on our website: https://communitylv.org/what-we-believe….
Dr. Travis Bradberry is the foremost expert on “Emotional Intelligence.” Most of us know about IQ (intelligence quotient) but everyone also possesses some level of EQ (emotional quotient). It is quite possible that being emotionally healthy is more important than “how smart you are.” Emotionally healthy people are happier people. In Dr. Bradberry’s latest article…
