Wednesday Morning Looking Good!
For several years leading up to moving into North Buffalo/Kenmore and launching a new church I would drive into this area- going up and down streets just asking God to place a burden and love for this community in my heart. It had been a long time since I had done any kind of ministry in an urban setting so if God was truely calling me and Gloria and our family into this area I knew I needed a God sized portion of His love...
What Makes Me Glad?
It's Tuesday afternoon and summer has defintely set in at the Cockrell house! When does school start back? No – I love summer and the chance to hang more with the fam – I don't think you can fully appreciate a hot summer until you have experienced a cold winter. How is it though that in the heat of the summer you can't remember what 23 below windchill feels like and in the winter when the wind chill is 23...
Sunday Night Reflections
We made it back yesterday afternoon from camping with everybody in one piece and with the same number of kids we left with so all in all it was a great trip! I must say this was our best outing ever. The weather was off the chain – we had great camp fires both in the morning and at night which is why you go camping. We had 10 families – 20 adults/28 kids total – I was a little worried going in because of the shere...
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts before we leave for our third annual Letchworth camping trip. If you have tried to comment on this blog – you can stop trying. I had to stop the comments because I was getting a ton of spam comments that were not very "family oriented" if you know what I mean. Sick world we live in. This Sunday is FATHER'S DAY and I am declaring to all fathers who can hear my blog voice – come dressed for the...
Elmwood Students – What’s up?!
hey teenager - how is your week going after what we discussed sunday about living under the authority that GOD has placed over us? i know that it is not an easy way to live but if we really trust GOD that HE has our very best in mind in all that HE does then we can begin to trust HIM with the authority that HE chooses to place over us. remember we said that "not all authority is godly but all authority is GOD...