Tag: Canyon Community Church

As a former delivery driver for United Parcel Service (UPS) and long before becoming a pastor, safe driving was drilled into our training. 

It is a dilemma. I read an article some time ago that described America’s most dangerous jobs and guess what, administering religious services was eighth on the list. In the wisdom literature of the Bible there is the statement, “A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” I must admit, it caused me to pause and consider what I am doing as a pastor. Then, however, I realized that we are all in danger. Every person has death pursuing them whether it is early in life or later, we get ensnared…

To what extent are we to be our brother’s keeper? And if we are tasked with this high calling, what is the best way to achieve compassion mixed with realism?

The de-evolving church. I think this may be an original term, but perhaps not an original idea. When something evolves, it gradually becomes more complex, or it adapts.