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My children’s rooms have been known to look like the wreckage left from a bomb blast. Clothes, toys, and technology lay strewn across the floor leaving little space to walk or sit. Saturday is the day to find the floor in their rooms. No kid enjoys that task. It’s always more fun to make a [...]

Daniel 2 – Bible Gateway Daniel 2 – Your Version The door made an eerie sound as it slowly swung open. The air was damp and heavy in the dark room. The sound of my breath hung in the air… my mouth went dry. I remember as a boy feeling the throb of my heart [...]

The struggle between the natural and supernatural runs deep. Things that come naturally are comfortable because they have something to do with what pleases me. On the flip side, the supernatural can be easily missed. I remember when I missed it big time. I was 21 years old and on temporary Navy duty in San [...]

Prolifik Films has produced another amazing video! The fall of mankind in the creation story is profoundly portrayed through words and painting. The artist, Scott Erickson paints several layers of imagery illustrating how sin entered into the perfect world God created. The expressive Sharon Irving, shares the compelling story. I appreciate how Prolifik Films creatively [...]

It was a normal Friday as Karen and I pulled into Barnes & Noble to enjoy the day together. I was searching for a parking place when Karen’s phone rang and she noticed it was her doctor. She had some medical tests performed and was waiting to hear the results. The next few minutes seemed [...]

READ: Daniel 2:1-17 What would it be like if the head of the Secret Service knocked on your door and told you that a death warrant had been issued for you? Can you imagine the heart pounding tension, the throbbing in your head as you tried to collect your thoughts? Then, while you were processing [...]

A little over two years ago I sat down at a table with a young man who had just moved to San Antonio.  He had arrived about week before and had learned that Oak Hills Church was looking to higher a part-time audio visual technician. Within a matter of a few minutes it became crystal [...]

This is an inspiring and moving video presented at the Willow Creak Leadership Summit in 2008. The video is titled: A Thousand Questions. It is well-worth the 10 minutes Created by Prolifk films

Read Daniel 1:1-16 Have you ever had something so capture your attention that it was hard to turn away? My wife and daughter were recently captivated by a Vita-Mix presentation and enjoyed several of the resulting concoctions from smoothies to sorbets. They had a hard time walking away without buying one. The Wii captivates my [...]

Jason Widney, Media Arts Director for Park Community Church in Chicago, recently shared some videos that were created for a Good Friday service. He wrote, “While driving to work one day, I saw a dance in my head…The story was about something beautiful and pure being destroyed and torn.” This interpretive dance to scripture is [...]

A friend of mine moved into a new house awhile back. He was amazed at the number of trees that had been planted. The sunlight was almost completely hidden from view. These were not little spindly trees. These trees had take their roots deep and now extended their reach more than thirty feet into the [...]

Randy Frazee, Senior Minister at Oak Hills Church, recently shared an encouraging message on the presence of God being released among us. When the curtain was torn from top to bottom, God powerfully demonstrated that the sacrifice of Jesus erased the separation between God and Man. One of the illustrations Randy used to bring this [...]

I came across this blog post by Donald Miller on handling bitterness. He conveys some solid truths for anyone dealing with a painful past. Have you ever met somebody who has been hurt, wrongfully hurt and is bitter about it? It’s difficult to have compassion, even though they have a right and reason to be [...]

The car door shut and my 10-year old son’s face widened into a broad smile. It was Friday afternoon, school was out for the weekend, it was a Boy Scout meeting day and we were off to explore a cave some 125 feet underground. Anticipation and excitement thickened the air as we drove to meet [...]