What was the best you were ever treated?  Maybe you get special treatment by your family once a year when it is your birthday, or perhaps you stayed at a nice resort where it is everyone’s job to make sure you are well fed and happy.  Have you ever been treated...

In late Sept of this year, I went to visit a church plant (Sozo Church) in San Francisco.  It was incredible!  The church is about one year old.  Before they gathered at 6 am to transform a middle school into a gathering of the church, they prayed.  When I say they...

Judges 4:6 New International Version (NIV) 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. We find in...

Want to be a part of our Prison Ministry? We go to the Newton Prison every first Sunday of the month. Give Mike a call at 641-660-7715  

Proverbs 18:22 (NASB)  He who finds a wife finds a good thing And obtains favor from the Lord. Below is the script from a letter that a gentleman from church gave me a couple years after my wife and I wed. This letter is pinned to the bulletin board in the archery...

Do you have a pretty good idea what all you are going to do today?  Even if it doesn’t go exactly as planned, we usually have a fairly good idea of how the day will go.  In reality, we have seemingly limitless choices of things we could do or where we could go each...

Have you ever felt anxious or worried about the future?  I know I tend to.  In high school, I worried about where to go to college and for what.  When I got engaged, I worried about being married and sharing toothpaste. When we got pregnant with our first kids, I...