Do you ever find yourself getting discouraged because you are doing all the right things, but nobody seems to even notice? Or maybe you are doing the right things, but there doesn’t seem to be any reward for it? I imagine that is somewhere we have all found ourselves at one point or another. For [...]
Archive for the ‘James’ Category
Finding the Beauty Among the Chaos
Posted: February 22, 2012 by canvasrhapsody in belief, challenge, encouragement, hope, JamesOver the past few years, I have become more and more discouraged by the things going on around me. I only check the news to stay abreast of the major current events and most of those seem to be bad news. If I’m not careful I find myself getting caught up in all of the [...]
As most of you know, Canvas Church is starting a corporate fast along with many other churches across the world. A fast can be a very exciting yet unnerving time of decreasing your flesh and allowing God to increase in your life. It’s amazing to see what God can do when we put the distractions [...]
The Imperfect Spouse As many of you know, the Lord has placed marriages and family on my heart as of late. I think that anyone who is married or has been married knows that it is something that you must constantly work on. Even the best marriages have struggles that must be dealt with [...]
Leaving A Legacy
Posted: November 16, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in James, marriage, My Story, responsibility, testimonyA couple of weekends ago Callie and I were able to attend Family Life’s “A Weekend to Remember” marriage conference. It was a wonderful experience for us, and it was a chance to get away from our busy schedules and truly focus on God and each other. There were ten [...]
The late John Wooden once said, “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” For those that don’t know, John Wooden was the head basketball coach for UCLA in their heyday in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. He was a fantastic basketball coach and by all accounts an even better person. [...]
Praise You In This Storm
Posted: September 21, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in belief, challenge, church, faith, God, hope, James, My Story, PrayerThe last month has been a very difficult month for Callie and me. As most of you know by now and as I wrote in my blog last month, we were expecting. Unfortunately, the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. I can’t tell you that I understand why it happened. I can’t tell you that [...]
Losing Control
Posted: August 17, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in James, journey, path, planTags: losing control
Growing up I often found myself planning out my future. I was going to go to college, get a job, get married, and have a family. My wife was going to be a stay at home mom so that our children could have the same experiences that I had as a kid. My dad worked [...]
Over the past several months, the Lord has continued to speak to me about identity. I feel like it is a constantly growing problem in the church today. We, as Christians, are so caught up in what others think about us and our identity through the world view that we forget that our identity [...]
The Call to Serve
Posted: May 18, 2011 by canvasrhapsody in James, serveTags: community, disaster, relief, serve, tornados, Tuscaloosa
As most of the Southeast is trying to recover from the recent storms, I find myself thinking about how awesome it is that God can take something as tragic as these storms and turn it into a perfect example of the Body of Christ at work. We hear stories of churches helping out people in [...]
