Overwhelmed | Crosstraining 11.30.12

Philippians 1:15-18 One Christmas when I was a kid, there was a toy that I wanted so bad. I put it on every Christmas list I made. I told Santa when he made an inexplicable trip to the Ashland mall. I even circled it in the JC Penny Christmas catalog. I was so excited...

Overwhelmed | Crosstraining 11.29.12

Philippians 1:12-13 I’ll never forget basketball tryouts when I was in seventh grade. The coaches words on the first day still haunt me. He said, “We’re not even going to touch a basketball for the next three days.” He was right…all we did was run. It didn’t...

Overwhelmed | Crosstraining 11.28.12

Hebrews 11:1 & 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 We’ve all been through it. It might have been you, but, most likely it was someone you loved or knew well. Some of us have seen it more times than we’d like to count. They get the news. It’s cancer or another life threatening...

Overwhelmed | Crosstraining 11.27.12

Romans 8:28,35-39 During a High School anatomy class, my teacher asked a simple question, “What if we no longer had pain in the world?”  If God gave us a choice to have a pain-free world, we’d all probably jump at the opportunity. However, she reminded us that pain...

Overwhelmed | Crosstraining 11.26.12

Philippians 4:11-13 When I was in high school, I loved sports and worked really hard at them. The highest goal in my  life at that point was to help my team win a conference championship. But, it didn’t matter what my dreams were or how hard I worked, nothing seemed...