August 2010 I want to thank you, on behalf of the entire Ministry Essentials family, for your continued and faithful support.  You encourage and strengthen us for the task at hand.  Your belief in us and friendship challenges us when loneliness sets in with a vengeance.  And your pursuit of God inspires a deeper love [...]

July 2010 We were privileged to have Dr. Larry Crabb pour into us during our recent all staff retreat.  Our discussions revolved around relational holiness; i.e. In our desire to become more like Jesus we repent of known sin and seek to live in the Spirit (personal holiness) – that’s good.  Relational holiness ups the [...]

June 2010 Preparing for a few speaking engagements, I’ve been thinking through the “come to me” passages in the Gospels.  The three categories of people Jesus invites to come are–the children (needy) (Mt. 18:3, 19:14; Mk. 10:14; Lk. 18:16) the thirsty (Jn. 7:37) and the weary (Mt. 11:28). Each, though unique, flesh out more of [...]