These days everyone seems to be talking about numbers. The number of days in quarantine, the number of people tested for Covid-19, the number of deaths due to Covid-19, the number of days school has been out and many more surrounding the 2020 pandemic! I want to talk about numbers too. Lets start with in …
Category: Life Stories and Turning Points
Real-life moments that shaped your journey—personal stories, cultural snapshots, and reflections that invite readers to pause and see God’s hand.
Fire Alarms, Fire Trucks and Jesus
It’s 3:45 in the morning and I am deep asleep and then the phone vibrates. I look at it and see that is our alarm monitoring company for our church. “Hello? Is this Dennis? Yes. We have a fire alarm going off at your church and fire and police are in route.” Now this isn’t …
Wake Up Church
Wake Up!! Ever hear these words before? Perhaps growing up your mom, dad, or a sibling would yell this and you would slowly roll out of your bed and start your day. Well today, right now I am yelling these words – WAKE UP – CHRISTIAN CHURCH! I have been involved in many levels of …
Why Not
Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe you can accomplish anything you want? Can you be an athlete playing for the MLB or NHL? Could you maybe play in a band and imagine winning a Grammy? What about having your own television show and you are the star chef? Do you see yourself as …
Stop Watering the Weeds
Ever have one of "those" days, weeks, months or dare I say years? Did you ever sit and say "why me?" I know I have, in fact in many ways that was shown to me by my dad. I can remember many times over hearing those two words to the point I started saying them! …
What’s in your History?
When you are using the internet there is a place called “history” in your computer that essentially tracks every site you visit. I can come over to your home, open your computer and go to “history” and I can see what you have been putting into your mind (looking at). What if I could walk …
What are you Chasing?
28,470 days, 683,280 hours or 2,459,808,000 seconds. I happen to be somewhere around 18,000 days. Did you figure it out? Those first three numbers represent 78 years of life, which is the average life expectancy currently in America. Now, look at where I am at: approximately 18,000 days in. A very sobering thing to see! …
You don’t know me
Can I just SCREAM!!!! That is what I want to do, but what would people think? I am supposed to be the strong, calm one. I am supposed to be the one that has the cool head, thinker, solver of problems and offer up wisdom and advice when needed / asked. After all, I am …
Mountain
There you stand, facing an enormous mountain. It is a formidable giant that once again you face. Maybe it’s a loss of a job, a struggling marriage, a goal you want to achieve, etc. and you turn and there it is bigger than life, what do you do? Do you turn and run? I hope …
The Christmas gift I received last year, 2 years ago, 5 years ago was…..
We run around this time of year from store to store looking for Christmas gifts for our family and friends. Many people will get very stressed over this period of shopping and never really enjoy the season, all because of the pressure of finding “that right gift.” Now I will admit I am one that …
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Fire Side Therapy 