Pastor Jack’s Blog
Just some everyman insights into everyday life; Gain some wisdom on issues you are dealing with in your life.
January 2017
“I’m Not Worried”
Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.-- Proverbs 12:25 This is an unusual blog for an unusual circumstance--last week my wife and I were finally able to bring our newly adopted daughter home from Haiti. Here’s a picture of us at our homecoming at the airport: Let me just say
Better Together
I recently heard on the radio that by this point in the month of January 95% of us have already abandoned our new year’s resolutions. How are your resolutions working out so far? In my last blog post, I shared with you one reason why so many of us fall flat on our faces when
Do You Need a Reset?
In our culture with all of our technology there are a lot of things that we need to reset. I’m a Mac guy and if you are like me and work on a Mac, you are familiar with this: I don’t know what it’s real name is but I’ve heard of it referred to as
Do Not Be Afraid
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11 I know Christmas is already several weeks behind us and I know some of you were probably glad to see it go. It’s easy for all the joy of
December 2016
Interrupted plans: Another Side of the Christmas Story
People were asked what words describe the holiday season and this is what they came up with: Fights Laughter Busy Peace Sentimentality Drunkenness Presents Annoying music Joy Love Loss Chocolate mint cookies Weight gain All of those thoughts tend to put our holidays into a “holidaze.” How many of you when it comes to
Loving Difficult People
I have a close friend who is a great guy. Funny, talented, a hard worker, but for some reason he just gets on my nerves from time to time. He just doesn’t really have a filter, if you know what I mean. Let me give you a couple of examples. I was driving him and
People Who Are Loved, Love People
If you have a baby maybe you can relate to this: Now a lot of babies come out looking like ET but not my first child, Riley. He was beautiful and so the moment he was born, the competition began. Who does Riley look like? I, of course, thought he looked like me. My wife,
Take Me To Church
Hi friends and welcome to my blog, "Everyman Jack." If you are a regular follower of this blog you know that for the last couple of posts, I’ve been talking about several verses in the third chapter of Ephesians. You may be ready to say “enough is enough” to Ephesians, chapter 3 but there’s one
November 2016
God Can Heal Your Wounds
If this is your first visit to the Everyman Jack blog, welcome; if not, thanks for coming back. If you read my last post, you may remember that I started talking about 8 power-packed verses in Ephesians Chapter 3: 14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on
Changing Lives in The Ranch – A Christmas Story
As the pastor of Canyon Springs I hear lots of stories. Some are sad stories of people going through difficult times, some are great stories of what God has done in someone’s life, but my favorite stories happen when the two come together. They sound something like this “Life was hard, then God showed up.”