by Andy Baker | May 10, 2016 | VITAL Men Devotions
I write this today while I sit in exile. Well, ok, maybe “exile” is a tad bit extreme. I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop {sipping some real great blueberry crumble coffee I might add} because one can hardly hear themselves think at our church right now as we are...
by Andy Baker | May 3, 2016 | VITAL Men Devotions
A number of years ago I found myself traveling from the Midwest to New Jersey. I arrived in Milwaukee to catch my connecting flight to Newark, only to discover that a major winter storm had paralyzed the eastern seaboard. As I gazed as the flight board I saw the...
by Andy Baker | Mar 29, 2016 | VITAL Men Devotions
When I was a youth pastor we would hold a middle school lock-in every year that grew into a major outreach event. Over 100 6-8th graders would show up at our church at 4PM for 16 straight hours of games, food, worship, a trip to an indoor waterpark, inflatables, and...
by Andy Baker | Mar 22, 2016 | VITAL Men Devotions
We just celebrated Palm Sunday, the commemoration of Jesus’ big entry into Jerusalem. In Jesus’ day basically all of Israel was expected to leave their homes to celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem (not unlike how it seemed all of Iowa migrated to Pasadena...
by Andy Baker | Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized, VITAL Men Devotions
My Dad always said that it took five minutes to get anywhere in my hometown of Sioux City. Now, he did not make this statement to insinuate that Sioux City was small or to be truthful. He said it as a way of letting me know I was never supposed to be more then five...
