Bill Reiter (1981-2007)

On 26 June 2007 Bill Reiter passed away due to complications related to a seizure. Bill was my friend and a worship leader for Fusion while I served at Pascack Bible Church. Bill was an artist who truly reveled in Christ, never more so than when he was leading worship or creating art. [...]

Lie with integrity…

I sold a vehicle to a gentleman yesterday that explained to me that everyone hates car salesmen, and that because of this he will not give me a good survey. After several minutes of discussion where he repeatedly told me that this was the best car buying experience that he had ever had (but [...]

Preaching by rote…

Surfing through the blogosphere tonight I came across this that chris wrote.
I think he is on to something…
I feel the same way, and I think his remark about teams hits it on the nose. I have long felt that preaching in the American church has become far too routine. That the process of [...]

The songs of my heart…

So there are a couple of songs that have been playing over and over in my head lately…
The first is by Jason Upton… it is a song that for the life of me I can not find anywhere on CD, if you know where I can get it… I will give you a [...]

Ten minutes.

So tonight I sold my second car of the month… it was a 2005 Ford Escape. I didn’t make much money off of it, because in order to make the sale we dropped about $3,000 off the price, but what I will make in the long run looks like I will be better [...]

I am going to name my first born Nahum

I have spent a lot of time of late reading through the prophets…
What started out as something that I thought would be hard work has turned into something that I have deeply cherished. There is a deep beauty throughout these books, and I am seeing so clearly the heart that God has to [...]

Habakkuk 1:5

Sitting at my desk this morning, this is what I read:

Look at the nations and watch-
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.

How’s that to start out a new year…