Have you ever been hiking at night? If the woods are dense enough, almost no moonlight or starlight penetrates the thick canvas of the forest roof. When you turn your headlamp on, the immediate area in front of you lights up, and everything else is draped in blackness. You can see clearly for maybe thirty feet, then after that it tapers quickly back into pitch black. There’s a certain amount of faith that you have to walk in when you are night hiking. You have to trust that the trail will take you where it is supposed to go. You have to have faith that the trail itself is safe, even if it runs alongside a step cliff or next to a rushing river. You trust that the noises you hear are really just big squirrels and not hungry bears looking for tasty, out of shape and slightly plump, stray hikers. So you hike in faith, knowing for sure only what lies 30 feet in front of you and hoping that you’ll reach your campsite before Roscoe the Mountain Man jumps from the shadows to demonstrate to you his deep knowledge of the movie “Deliverance.” It really is exciting. Believe me. Try it sometime. Well, I am on a night hike of sorts right now, figuratively speaking. All of us that have entered into this amazing adventure that is following Christ are on night hikes. Our destination is certain: the Kingdom of God. Our trail is firm: the Path of Righteousness and the Way of the Cross. Our light, The Holy Spirit, illuminates all that we need to know in order to navigate through the world that is shrouded in the darkness of sin. The path that I am currently on is not one that I ever thought that I would take. It is a crazy trail that already has seen miracles, struggles, leaps of faith, and mighty acts of God. And we're only at the beginning. My hiking companions are my wife Brandie, and my three sons, Sam, Jack and Luke. It is a journey that we would love to share with all of you, if you want to read along.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Ministry together...

Brandie and I just had a great talk about the future. Don't want to give anything away yet because, well, you never know...

Since Brandie and I first started dating, I have felt that we had complimentary gifts for ministry. Just a week before we moved to KY Brandie and I were invited over to a friends house. Our friends had invited another couple, who God used to speak a word over us. This couple (who did not know a thing about us, including that I was about to start seminary) stated that God had gifted Brandie with insight, and I was gifted with the ability to proclaim these things. If you know Brandie and I at all, you know how very true this is. Brandie has the unique ability to not only "see" into the heart of a person, but to hear from God exactly what that person needs. And I stinkin' love to preach and teach. Complimentary gifts....

So, my question is which of the two options before us better uses our gifts together?
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