Isaiah’s Blog

I was asked to speak at the Casper Christian Church’s Masquerade party for the Youth, so Sara and I made the trek up to Casper early that morning because there was also a camp meeting. The camp meeting started at 10am, which meant that we had to leave here by 8am. We made [...]

God’s command is, “Take now,” not later. It is incredible how we debate! We know something is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it immediately.
My Utmost For His Highest

In a sad commentary of the ongoing movement to remove risk from every part of life, Tag, the classic game of cat and mouse, is being taken away from Massachusets school kids. The reasoning? Out of fear the children would get hurt and hold the school liable. Here’s the full story from [...]

Authenticity trumps everything else. Everyone working with youth needs to genuinely love God and love kids.
- Jonathan McKee - The Source for Youth Ministry

Its been a rather odd week thus far. First on Sunday morning, the Church recieved a threat in the form of a message on the answering machine. I won’t go into detail about it, but it was rather odd, to say the least. I have the view that if we’re getting threats, [...]

So… I was sick all of Friday the 13th, but that’s just a coincidence. As you may know, I preached last Wednesday at Summit Christian College. It went pretty well, and it was nice to see old friends again. Quite a lot has changed at SCC, not the least of which is [...]

Here’s a picture of Carter Christopher Dodson for all you baby lovers out there. On our trip to Summit Christian College to preach, we went down to Julesburg, then met the Dodsons in Burlington, Colorado for lunch at a mexican restaurant. Here’s the cutie himself… he’s only 2 months old, but he’s strong [...]

I’m here at Summit Christian College, getting ready to go to bed soon… I’m preaching for chapel tomorrow at 10am… So that’s cool, but scary too. I went to this college back in the day when it was called Platte Valley Bible College, so I know everybody here… It’ll be good though. As [...]

Tonight we had 16 youth come for youth group. That is the most we’ve ever had, and I definitely didn’t think we’d have that many… So I was short on handouts. We have been averaging 12… So this is a huge praise. Now we’ll need to get more youth sponsors :).
Our lesson [...]

Well, after a run-around weekend, with the garage sale and preaching/playing bass for worship, its been a nice calm week so far. I’ve finished everything I had to get done every day so far, and its been a nice restful week compared to last. Lights On has been fun, and the attendence for [...]