While most of you know that I’m the pastor at Canyon Springs Church, you may not know that I have another job too. I officiate a lot of wedding ceremonies in my spare time; in fact, they call me the San Diego Wedding Guy. Google it and you’ll see. I

There are two kinds of prayers: staying-in-church prayers and kicked-out-of-church prayers. How do you pray? Are you praising God for all he has done for you or does it sound more like this: “Oh Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever?” By the way, if you pray like this

If this is your first time to this blog, welcome! If you are a regular, you know that we are in the middle of series called “Love Does” because love doesn’t just talk or think or even pray (though praying is always a good idea); Love takes action! Love does

Hello and thanks for reading my blog! If this is your first time, welcome and glad you are here. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know that for that last week I started a series of posts about the elusive quest for joy that we are

If you read my last post, you know that this week I’m talking about joy and how to get more of it in your life. Who couldn’t use more joy these day, right? To start off with let me ask you a question, have you ever noticed that we are

  Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4 Hi, My Name is Paul For those of you not familiar with the book of Philippians, let me give you some background on this book.  There is a guy in the bible named Paul that God

We all want to be confident, right? The more confident we feel, the happier we are so we are all looking for ways to increase our confidence. In my last blog post I discussed that one of the places we turn to build our confidence is to our bodies and

Hi friends. As you may remember if you are following this blog (which I hope you are), last week I made the following syllogistic (I love that word) statements: 1)Your joy is dependent on how much you feel valued. 2) Your value is largely dependent on people so… 3) Your

In my last post, I started talking about Nehemiah, one of the great leaders of the Bible, who managed to get walls built around Jerusalem in a scant 52 days. If you read the post, you will remember that Nehemiah was moved to action by his love for his fellow

Today we are beginning a new series called “Love Does.”  Because here’s the deal with love.  Love isn’t just an emotion.  Love isn’t merely a feeling.  Love doesn’t just mean well.  Love doesn’t just hope for the best.    Love does. Love reaches out.  Love makes a change.  Sometimes love fights.