My Thoughts Are Nothing Like Your Thoughts

The farmer looks at a plot of land, but doesn’t see the thorns, briers, bushes, and weeds that cover it. He sees the land for what it will do, bear fruit. He toils from morning till dawn, pulling up the roots of anything useless and what will impede the growth of what will soon be planted. Stubborn [...]

You Are Like Spring Flowers

For those of you who aren’t Canvas regulars… you might not know that we’ve recently reached some very significant milestones. In April 2011, Canvas turned 4 years old! Also, we effectively graduated from “Church Plant” status… to full-fledged “Vineyard Church”. My wife and I are not part of the original plant team… but we’ve been [...]

Adaptation

Adaptation: Change in behavior of a person or group in response to new or modified conditions. There was a time I was laying in a hospital bed almost ten years ago fighting for my life due to severe complications from a ruptured appendix..16 days I was in that bed between surgeries and I specifically remember having [...]

Stop and Smell the Roses

Stop and smell the roses… We’ve all heard it, but do we actually live it?  Every day I drive about 35 min to work from Lenoir City to Alcoa via Hwy 321.  Many times my drive time = my prayer time.  About a month and a half ago, while in my drive time prayer time, [...]

Encourage, Pass It On

So it’s finally my turn to blog…yeah man!, hope you guys enjoy it. I really don’t have any deep spiritual revelation, however. I’ve had some interesting things happen to me. A couple of days ago, I was speaking with a former co-worker name Paula. Paula and I began talking about different things, school, life, work, [...]

Intangibles: Atmosphere

Do you remember the challenge we were given during Nick’s sermon in December? He asked us to intentionally bring change to 3 separate environments. Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except [...]