The Gift of Grace

The call to ministry was a call that God placed on my heart pretty quickly after placing my life in his hands at the age of 17. At that point in my life, I would have been considered a pretty good kid by society’s standards. I played football throughout middle...

Bearing Fruit

The thought of doing something alone, such as going out to a restaurant by yourself, or going to a social gathering without a date or, at the very least, a friend to tag along is a weird concept to a lot of people. Most people have the desire to surround themselves...

Bread of Life

I think we can all agree that some of the food we eat can be seen as a wonderful gift from above. (In fact, according to my Facebook feed from Sunday afternoon, Randy Wade made the folks over at the Kaufman campus have a hankering for some good chicken-fried steak)....

Our New Position

The term “dead in your trespasses” shows up twice within the first five verses of Ephesians chapter 2. That is a scary thought, to be dead in your trespasses. Not just the literal death of our bodies, but the spiritual death beyond that, with eternal...

Living In Community

When I first started attending c|Life four and a half years ago, I heard almost every Sunday about the importance of living in community with others, but I never allowed myself to truly experience what that meant until September of 2015. At that time, my wife and I...

A Heart for Giving

When it comes to the idea of being a generous person, more often than not I like to justify my lack of monetary generosity with the idea that God has called me to be generous with my time, my ability to physically help someone, or anything other than money. Yes, God...