Pastor Denny Freeland

24/04/2024

Need I say more than Jeffrey Rickman's face could say?

Hearing a 6' tall obviously white guy with a full beard open his statement on the floor with 'White Male' tells you everything you need to know about how this conference will go.

Praise God we don't have to walk through this minefield of intersectional stupidity anymore.

18/04/2024

We're in 1 Samuel in our family reading plan, and I don't know who needs to hear this today, but read these words from 1 Samuel (in the photo).

Always remember, that what the world sees isn't what God sees. God sees you for your character, for who you really are, not who the world *says* you are. Believe me, what God cares about, and what the world cares about are two entirely different things, and thank God for that!

God is good!

15/04/2024

If your moral high ground happens to be in direct alignment with Iran's moral high ground, you need to question whether or not you really have the moral high ground.

24/01/2024

I was in my car this morning and listening to this podcast, which is a very timely message. People are constantly looking for the ‘secret’ to getting in shape or the ‘secret’ to being a Good Christian, and more often than not, the ‘secret’ isn’t nearly as fancy or shocking as you think.

I recently read an interview with a strength coach who was convinced there was some untold industry secret to losing weight and getting in shape. He finally had the opportunity to meet an Olympic weight trainer, and guess what the trainer said: “Want to get in shape? Eat vegetables, eat lean proteins, and work out regularly.” He replied: “That’s it, that’s the secret? That’s no secret at all.” The trainer replied: “Yep, but it’s what you have to do.”

It’s the same for us. Want to be a good Christian? Practice spiritual disciplines regularly: Pray regularly, study your bible regularly, go to church regularly, give regularly, serve regularly, and evangelize regularly. And then, when you’re done doing all those things today… go do ‘em again tomorrow.

Like the sociologist being interviewed on today’s Art of Manliness podcast talks about in this week’s episode, the fortunate (or unfortunate) reality is that the secret formula is this: there is no secret formula. The steps we have to take are in plain sight, we just have to have the tenacity to do them, day in and day out.

Blessings,
Pastor Denny

Forty years ago, now retired professor of sociology Daniel Chambliss performed a field study in which he observed an elite swim team to figure out what it was that led to excellence in any endeavor. As Chambliss shared in a paper entitled “The Mundanity of Excellence,” the secret he discovered i...

19/09/2023

Yep.

18/09/2023

Amen to this!

WE NEED THE CHURCH

Because we are Christ's body and Christ's body IS the church. For a Christian to say, "I just need Jesus, but I don't need church" is to admit that they don't have Jesus at all.

Why?

Because the Bible says we are Christ's body (1 Corinthians 12), and Christ Himself is the head (Ephesians 4:15).

If the church is us Christians who make up Christ's body, and Christ is the head of the body, then needing Jesus means you need the church.

We need each other. Following Jesus isn't a solo race. None of us can do it alone.

More than that, others' strengths cover our weaknesses, and our strengths help others with their weaknesses.

Following Jesus starts with knowing Him personally and individually, but it never ends there. Once we know Jesus personally and individually, He baptizes us into His body (the church) through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

In this way we are mystically united to every other Christian who truly knows Jesus and truly follows Jesus.

We need Jesus, and we need fellow believers who have Jesus to help us follow Him together.

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31/08/2023

100% This. And it's exactly what's going on right now.

10/07/2023