I have created a group to focus on the class materials I use for North Central University. If you would like to join, clink on the link and let me know! Peace, Pastor Dan Click to join apprentice2jesus Read more

Where has our expectation gone? There really is a weariness in well-doing. God has so much for us, and we sit doing so little. We need the wildness of the Spirit unleashed in our lives once again. We need to surrender our desire for predictibility and ask the Spirit to blow as HE wishes! “It… Read more

We live like spiritual bums far too often. We mistake being cynical for “being honest”. If someone were actually POSITIVE, we would think they were lying. How could someone be “positive” and “honest”? It’s like those words just do not fit any more. We lack such honesty with God. We don’t speak with Him or… Read more

“But this is a people plundered and looted;they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons;they have become plunder with none to rescue,spoil with none to say, ‘Restore!’” Isa. 42:22 (ESV) We live among people plundered and looted. They do not even know it. Spiritually, though, they are empty. They walk around… Read more

Do you ever wonder about the stories in the lives of people you pass? Today I was driving by a funeral home and there was a crowd outside. Who had died? Was this family? Friends? Both? Was this someone young or old? Dearly loved or tolerated? So often I want to know the stories of… Read more

For those who may not know me very well, my post about voting for Hillary Clinton in 2008 was sarcastic. Now, on to greater things… Why I actually admire the New York Yankees: The playoffs are in full swing and the Yankees went down to the Los Angeles/Anaheim/California Angels. Right there is enough reason to… Read more

Why should we consider Hillary Clinton for President in 2008? Dynasty. Think of it! Should Madame Hillary serve two terms, history would look like this: From 1989 to 2017 it was the era of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. Who could pass that up? Read more

What is Gideon’s Torch? It is my new whacky idea. I love missions. My heart is broken for the world. Giving to missions has always been important to me. Lately, our missions giving has been STUCK. We are behind in our current support, we can’t take on new missionaries, and we can’t raise our current… Read more

Which is “easier” to do: Live under the Law, or live by grace? Which “demands” more of us? Too often we use grace only in terms of salvation, or maybe for when we fall into sin. That is too narrow. Grace is for LIVING. The Kingdom of God is vast and calls us so much… Read more

The conundrum the Church so often faces in “connecting” with what we have called the “postmodern” culture is almost laughable at times. For one, I think we have fallen upon another marketing technique in some evangelical circles, and we are always ready to make a buck. Just like the “church growth” movement 25 years ago,… Read more