Associate Pastor of Family Ministry Search Team Presentation
This audion clip is from Sunday morning, June 13th at MorningStar Baptist Church. The search team has spent the last six months prayerfully seeking to fill this pastoral position at our church. This presentation is a report of their process. After the presentation the search team turned the process over to the congregation who will take part in the candidating →
Misery Meets Grace
My eleventh Christmas started out as the worst Christmas experience of my life. That was the year I had the bright idea that it would be fun to secretly find out what all my presents were before Christmas morning. So, two weeks prior to Christmas I snuck into my parent’s room and spoiled the surprise. Waking up that Christmas →
Why Family Ministry?
The following audio was recorded on a Sunday morning at MorningStar Baptist Church. The church is seeking to step out in faith and hire an associate pastor in an area that they have never explored before, family ministry. As the church forges ahead the leadership is continually seeking to help the church to understand and fully embrace the what it →
Spoiling Christmas
At the age of eleven I went through a phase in which I just needed to know what I was getting for Christmas before Christmas morning. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to know these secrets in my younger years; it’s just that my methods became a little less conventional. In earlier years I would simply find out what my →
The Power of Mixing 2 Great Things
The following is an article written for MorningStar Baptist Church's monthly newsletter, Revelations. Much of the content is an adaptation of concepts found in Reggie Joyner's book, Think Orange. Pray for us as we seek to fill this critical pastoral position in our church. I have a confession. I like to mix foods. I have another confession. The mixtures don’t always →
High Yield Investing
I’m starting to think a lot more about investing than I did a few years ago. For one thing I’m older and realizing that someday I may retire, but in order to do that I’ve got to have something stashed away somewhere. I also have a family now and I am thinking about their security if something were →
Seat Belts and Crock Pots
As I watch my children grow and experience the bittersweet frustration of needing to repeat things over and over and over again only to have them still not get it, I am struck by how similar this is to our spiritual growth, at least my spiritual growth. Through the years I have heard these stories of men and women →
“You Are My Joy” CD is NOW available!
The long wait is over - it seemed long to us anyway! Holly's new CD is hot of the presses and finally available. If you would be interested in a copy visit her page. There you will find information about the songs included on the CD as well as ordering instructions. Feel free to email, mark@showemjesus.com if you have any →
Friendly Competition
My daughter went skiing for the first time last week. It was great watching her get all ready for the trip. She couldn't get to sleep the night before. She picked out her clothes two or three times. And she was out of bed the first time I tried to wake her the morning of the trip. If you know →
My Girlfriend’s Famous (wife in my case)
One of my favorite singers, Riley Armstrong, has a song entitled My Girlfriend's Famous. I've always gotten a laugh out of the song, like many of his other songs, but just recently the song has found a special place in my heart. For a little over a year my wife Holly has been working on a CD and it is →
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