Fall Creek Christian Church

This is the time of year when whether you are an NCAA basketball fan or not you are going to hear about basketball.  If you are a fan, then you have no doubt been working through your bracket, trying to figure out who is going to win each game and ultimately win the National Championship. You are truly excited that March Madness has arrived.  I will admit that this is a fun time of year for me as I really enjoy college basketball.  This many quality games back to back is just a lot of fun to watch and enjoy with friends and family.  Sunday, after the selection show, I was watching all the commentary regarding the brackets from quite a few individuals with a great deal of knowledge about these teams.  It really struck me how they all put their personal spin on what team would eventually be the National Champion.  It seemed funny that they all had the same information, the same teams, and yet, they each put th...

Webster’s Definition:   Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition Wow…I don’t know about you but that describes more than one area of my life right now and over the past few weeks I have gained great comfort in understanding that as I pray for Gods Will that his will is for me to persevere.  Let me share a great story with you on perseverance that I learned from my 14 year old daughter this week.  Over Christmas Break she had a pretty tough basketball tournament and was disappointed in how she performed.  We went to the gym later and worked on a few things and had fun hanging out.  During this time together she shared her discouragement that her shot wasn’t falling and that she hadn’t hit a “3” all season.  I tried hard to give her some sound advice such as it will fall, hang in there, but in the mean time step up and hit the open jump shots, free throws and layups.  This was intended to be encouragin...