Pastor Tone: Archive

Reaping and Sowing?

Okay so I am teaching my kids the principle of reaping and sowing. I start out by talking to them about what kinds of seeds we plant. Like if we plant good seeds what kind of fruit will we get “Good” dad! And if we plant Bad seeds what kind of fruit will we get “BAD DAD”! They are very smart kids for sure. The problem comes as I keep talking and saying, I have planted Bad...

Oct 31st

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Does my life fit in the book of Acts?

Oct 20th

Costly Grace - Props to Bonhoeffer

I read this recently and figured many of my friends never have So enjoy! CHEAP GRACE is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks’ wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church’s inexhaustible...

Sep 28th

Repentance

I went fishing this morning. I was inspired up early and Starbuck’s was not opening for another half hour. So I parked and walked down to the pond to try my luck. There was a lot of moss, which made me have to stop after every cast to clean off the lure. Then the mosquitos started to attack me! So after about 10 casts I am getting frustrated and bitten and as I go to pull the seaweed off my...

Aug 28th

No more Scheming!

SCHEMING: In my mind I picture a man in a dark room with a dark plan. I picture a person kinda like this gargoyle rubbing his hands together thinking about how make himself prosper. So many negative thoughts with that word. In my mind, this word always has to do with what I want and what I will do to get it. Proverbs 24:8 Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer. (ESV) My...

Jun 6th

God Spoke to me!

Isn’t it great when God speaks. In the past year I have been asking questions and trying to listen real hard. I tell God if He would just speak I would do whatever it is He wants me to do! It seems like sometimes that is the way I try to listen. And people ask “Did God tell you anything?” and I say, “Not Yet”, I am still listening. Well I have been reading Between...

Mar 5th

Called to the priesthood

I didn’t grow up in the Catholic faith but I know some guys that felt that someday they would be a priest. It was a high calling. Martin Luther described his inward call to the priesthood as “God’s voice heard by faith”.I have been a pastor for about 10 years and the call to ministry came to me through other people. I started attending Moody Bible Institute where I received...

Feb 9th

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Love it!

Feb 3rd

Missional = Normal (or aleast it should be) Part 1

I have been reading about what it means to be a missional church. I have to admit, I guess what I am learning is what I have always thought it should be like anyway. However working in several churches, I saw glimpses of it, but somehow there seemed to be other factors at work. Some things I have been learning. - Missions is not a committee or a ministry of the church, it is the church. We...

Nov 9th

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Wow this is powerful….and sad.

Nov 4th

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Unemployment....

I have met a lot of people as I go out to coffee and try to read and Study, I met with one unemployed friend for like 4 hours for breakfast, he was having trouble figuring out what to do next. This post is meant to lighten the heart because unemployment really can stink! God has provided for me and I am attending school, but I know many are not in my boat. Many people are unemployed not by...

Oct 9th

Sep 25th

The Problem with the Word "NO"

I have been having a problem with my children lately. They seem to like to say “NO” when told what to do. I should not be surprised at this, every child has gone through it, the first one surprised me and made me laugh, I said to Missy, “Isn’t that cute, she said NO! : )” I find it less amusing these days.Things I am learning. Kids have a sinful nature! The word...

Sep 23rd

Credit vs. Debit ?

I had to cancel my credit card the other day. I used it on a stop on our vacation then couldnt find it. I feared what could happen if that credit card got in the wrong hands! Ended up Missy had it in her shorts? Sooooo, anyway I had to use my debit card. It works pretty much the same, except it takes money right out of my bank account, instead of being something I have to pay back, as soon as the...

Jul 16th

He's watching!

I have been doing my devotions in 1 Peter lately, so I got to this verse -1 Pet. 3:12 “the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer.” It made me start to think of what that meant. I thought about the Lord’s eyes on my watching me and how that should affect me. Here are my thoughts - If I you are righteous person - God is watching out for...

Jun 26th

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Submit means do what He says James 4:1-10

Jun 19th

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The Happy Man - Psalm 1

Jun 10th

Blackberry

I just started to use one of these things. It is taking me a little to learn how to do it. Example today I learned if you press space 2X it gives you a period and starts a new sentence.(all at once WoW!) My wife asked me what is the big deal, and to be truthful at the time I really didnt know. But the more I learn the easier it gets to do simple little tasks, such as periods. Oh I dont figure I...

May 19th

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Clayton loved Jesus

Apr 23rd

Harvest Bible Chapel Jacksonville →

Apr 23rd

Cotton Candy

My kids have been asking me for Cotton Candy lately the other day Missy and I told them that if they did certain things around the house we would get them some. They didnt… Well my wife had to go to bible study and I was watching the kids, so I went and got them some Cotton Candy and balloons and a movie so we would have a fun night but I was wanting to teach the a lesson. I came home and...

Apr 21st

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Seder dinner - Christ in the passover.

Apr 10th

Welcome to the Marines

Yesterday was a blah day, I wrote on my facebook and people prayed for me. I dont know what makes it a blah day. I have been praying because I feel that the enemy has been attacking me and our church in different ways, mostly what the pastor from Romania talked about sunday in “isolation” we need each other. I think I just want to figure it out, but the reality is, I know that I am in...

Mar 24th

Good Soil?

The grass in my back yard is dying! Maybe its dead I dont know, I think I have snakes and animals burrowing under it, it is like caddyshack or bugs bunny and I see raised areas where I can tell animals are tunneling. The only thing that grows well are the weeds under my trampoline. My life…..(pause for a while). Is my life like that? Am I growing? Are there things burrowing under in my...

Mar 18th

Reboot - Going back to the beginning

So yeah, our computer crashed and I have to start over. For whatever reason it locks up everytime it starts. It wont do anything, and I dont understand, so I am starting over. This may take a while but I think it will be worth it. I am finding that with a lot of my problems thats what I have to do, I have to start over. I have to go back to where I know it works. So yeah this is where it gets...

Mar 4th

Feb 17th

Looking Around...

I find myself looking around alot, not at the opposite sex so much, more at just people in general. I think I know something. I think by looking at them I have some special insight into thier problem. I dont know if you call it discernment or intuition, I call it the Holy Spirit and life experience. But I do know alot about people. That bieng said, I also care about people. So it is not just this...

Feb 15th

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Stories

The past two nights my kids have been loving making up stories. Actually they just like me to make up the stories. They dont really care what the stories are about they just like stories. But here is the thing, the one thing they care about is, do you know? The one thing my kids care about is… that they are in the story. See if they are not in the story, then they tune out. They may laugh...

Feb 10th

Feb 9th

The Wrath of God...

So I was just talking to a friend of mine. (He may even be reading this right now!) Anyway, he told me how he spent his Birthday drunk. I told him that didnt sound like much fun, but he said it was. I am thinking about eternity today, I was thinking about it before I even saw my friend today. I just got an email from another friend and it seems he is not doing that well in a sin area either. Sin...

Feb 5th

Honor the Son

Well it is so cool, things seem to have worked out and the Van that was a constant reminder of how I need to be more cautious when making big purchases and of how foolish I can be with God’s money when I dont, well all that has changed for now. Thanks to a good friend in our church, the “Car Dealer” took back the vehicle and gave me my money : ) This situation was good...

Feb 3rd

First day on the new blog

I am just trying to get it to look ok then I will start to post very spiritual important things God is showing me…..or pictures of my kids and stuff.

Feb 3rd

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Laney on Love.

Feb 3rd

“Henri Nouwen”

– I feel like this sometimes ” You could say that many of us feel like failed tightrope walkers who discovered that we did not have the power to draw thousands of people, that we could not make many conversions, that we did not have the talents to create beautiful liturgies, that we were not...

Feb 3rd

So yeah I am trying to blog

In case you didnt know, I have never really given a blog a real chance. I guess I start today. Tone b.

Feb 3rd