Lead Your Kids to Jesus!

Lead Your Kids to Jesus Ever wondered how to communicate faith to your kids without the big words or how to relate Jesus to your kids on their level? We are offering a class for parents at Oak Leaf Church, teaching parents how to lead their kids in a decision to follow Christ. Kids have [...]

Inheritance

I’ve been learning so much in the Beth Moore Bible study on Inheritance. I love listening to Beth Moore and her studies are always so in-depth, but I often hesitate from doing her usual studies because of the magnitude of the homework. I’m a slow learner, slow reader and slow thinker. Well, slow is negative…I [...]

The Super Scandalous New Series at Oak Leaf Church…

The sexiest love story of all time won’t be found in a Shakespeare play or a Nicholas Sparks novel.  Believe it or not, it’s found in the Bible.  Join us as we walk through the book of Song of Solomon and learn about what God says about sex, dating, marriage and relationships.  It’s a series [...]

i am actually going to use a sports analogy!?!

so I have not been able to stop thinking about something my brother and his friend, Aaron were talking to me about the other day. On Saturday, I spent the day going to my brother’s college football game and then had dinner with the family afterwards. Sadly, our beloved team lost, which brought dad, Josh [...]

what do you need freedom from?

drug addiction alcohol abuse obsessions pride the wrong relationship a wrong friendship the mirror eating not eating porn self-mutilation negativity laziness depression spending sin You CAN break free. Find out how the next few weeks at Oak Leaf Church.

Tear down the Walls

been listening to Hillsong’s latest cd in the car lately. on my drive to and from work. every day, i pass a church that has a fence and a locked gate. it’s a small church that hasn’t seemed to grow in the last 5 years i’ve been driving past it. i never see more than [...]

New Beginnings

I love the beginning of school. buying new pencils, notebooks, and books. there’s just something about a fresh start. a new beginning. if i ever am feeling like i’ve failed at something, i will reorganize and buy a new notebook. i redo my organization to have a new beginning. i almost kind of miss school. [...]

H2O

water…it’s good for the soul. we’re so blessed to have clean water whenever we want it (with the exception of Florida. that junk is nasty!). It baffles me to think that some people in other areas of the world have to walk miles to get a drink of water. One of my favorite stories of [...]

i must be crazy

again, a hiatus in updating. twitter has kind of taken over the social media region of my life, leaving blogging to almost feel like too many words to explain something that could simply be said in 140 characters. i’ve tried to write a few posts in the last two months complete with pictures of my [...]

is this for real?!

some of you may not realize that matt and i have quite the interesting love story. Our meeting: we met on august 26th, 2004, our freshmen year at Berry. our friend joe was going to dinner with tracy and i. not wanting to be the awkward dude with no wingman, joe called his hall buddy [...]