by Andy Baker | Oct 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I started in ministry I was very idealistic and incredibly naïve. I was definitely not ready to see the dirty underbelly of the Church. I had been at my first church for about a year, and God had blessed us with incredible growth. Virtually every week new and...
by Andy Baker | Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
My Bible reading plan currently has me walking through Kings and Chronicles. If you’ve ever read through these books, you know that Israel/Judah had no shortage of awful kings. While there are good (yet flawed) kings like David, Solomon, and Hezekiah, there are many...
by Andy Baker | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Of all the ways God calls us to be different than the world, the one we THINK we understand the best is that we have different values. We all know that Christians are supposed to live according to a different set of values. We understand we are to obey the...
by Clark | Jul 14, 2023 | Uncategorized, Vital Men Devotions
This past week has been fairly eventful in my little world. We plan to leave in a couple days for our first out of state family trip in several years. It’s not an extravagant trip, but it does take some planning as to when and where to go, coordinating hotels,...
by Andy Baker | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The question “what do you do for a living” is something of an occupational hazard when you are a pastor. The response of “I’m a pastor” can shut down a conversation, lead to a list of complaints about the Church, etc. With Christians, it can also lead to them...
by Andy Baker | Apr 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
As a preacher, my number one concern is not whether or not people enjoyed my sermon or “got something out of it” (whatever that means). Rather, my concern is whether or not they actually put the text into practice and followed Jesus in a deeper way. Now that we’ve...
