Starting tomorrow, January 15th, I am challenging everyone who calls Element Church “home” to a 19-Day Fast as we seek God in preparation for the Grace & Truth sermon series. The series begins on Sunday, February 3rd, which is the day we will break the fast. No one is “required” to do this fast. You…
Just recently, I was reminded that our prayers have no expiration date, and I was so encouraged to keep on praying those bold prayers. I hope this little story will also be an encouragement for you to “keep on praying!” Mark Batterson , pastor of National Community Church in Washington D.C. put it t…
Too many times in our Christian faith we focus on receiving. Receiving salvation. Receiving the Spirit. Receiving a blessing. Receiving favor, abundance, or miraculous healing. Now listen, I’m all for receiving. Receiving forgiveness and receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit are of utmost import…
This past Sunday at Element Church we continued our series called “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” In this series, we’re looking at the Greatest Commandment, loving God with all we are and loving our neighbor as ourself, and talking about how evangelism can be boiled down to living that out. So far in th…
Did you know that according to the latest census data, out of the 563,000 people who call Wyoming their home, 340,000 of them claim “None” as their religion. 340,000 people have no religious affiliation or relationship at all. If you include people who are a part of a religion that has nothing to do…
Sometimes I am challenged by the most random verses in Scripture. I, like lots of people, read the Bible and easily see the “big rocks” if you will, while often missing great truth in small places. The genealogies for instance. Sometimes I get to those and just skim over them thinking, “Ya, ya, ya.…
If you don’t know, we have a great prayer tool out there called PrayForWyoming.com . Every day of the month from the 1st to the 23rd we offer a prayer guide for a corresponding county in Wyoming. For instance, tomorrow is March 1st and we will have a prayer guide to pray over Natrona County which is…
Prayer is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, guilt associated, under utilized disciplines in the Christian faith, and all three of those things work against each other. It’s under utilized because we don’t fully understand it and we feel guilty because we under utilize it. Most people probably w…
I’ve heard other preachers say this and I’ve said it before as well that if you’re not having fun while you sin then you’re not doing it right! HA! Well, not only is that true, but I learned this week that it is also fun to illustrate sin in a sermon. (Sin IS fun by the way…for a season. Sin might b…
Not only is nothing impossible for God but nothing is even remotely difficult for Him! [Tweet “Not only is nothing impossible for God but nothing is even remotely difficult for Him!”] On Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “Our Father: Praying Prayers That Matter.” In the…
How much do we honor, revere or fear the name of God? Judging by how we so flippantly throw it around, I think we could at least say we don’t honor it as much as we could! On Sunday at Element Church we started a new series called “Our Father: Praying Prayers That Matter.” In this series we are taki…
What is prayer to you? When and how do you pray? Did you know that Jesus actually taught us to pray? When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, Jesus gave them, and ultimately us, the Lord’s prayer. Here’s the thing though. The Lords Prayer is not a mandate to pray but a model of how we s…
