one year ago …

do you know what you were doing One Year ago today? a year ago today we were 1 day away from our pre-opening family night and one week away from our grand opening of Confluence.
all of the last minute details were finally coming into place and the INCREDIBLE vision from God was finally becoming reality.  i […]

What are you doing here??

we’ve all had our fair share of dips in our lives when we feel far away from God. you’ve probably noticed that i’ve had a dip in my blogging. i am not going to try suggest that my # of blogs should or ought to equal where i am at with my journey with God, […]

ouch….

“You pretend you want God, but you actually want what you think he can give you.” a seriously heart wrenching quote obviously from God.  he gave these words to perry noble today. 
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fresh look

for those who read my blog via rss feed or email, feel free to stop by the website. i figured after a year, i should give my blog a fresh update. now that i say that, i can’t believe its been over a year since joey and i started our blogs. whew, God has done […]

odd news

i found this news rather disturbing when i read this article. not so much that spam sees an increase in sales when recession hits, but rather that a “slaughterhouse next to the Hormel plant butchers 19,000 hogs a day”. that is seriously an unprecedented # of pigs. crazy.this post is for you joey - who loves hot dogs.article about spam if […]

thoughts on the election

it has been very interesting watching the whole political scene this fall. i purposely avoided engaging in many conversations about one candidate or another. not because i didn’t want to, but  mainly because when i wanted to have a bipartisan conversation, those who weren’t believers assumed that i was republican because i was a Christian, […]

“damn church”

it is always interesting to see how new guests respond when they come to confluence for the first time. some people come in and look the whole place over head to toe before they ever place an order. some people are ecstatic because they’ve found a coffee shop in their area. some people come right in like […]

buddy walk for josiah

today the yokeley’s (joey & allison), family, & friends are walking in the buddy walk for josiah. i so wish that i could be there to support them in this way, but i know that God is using me to bless the customers of confluence during this time. please pray for the walk as it is rainy and cold […]

why i miss eastern

a friend of a mine from eastern university (the college i graduated from) posted a youtube video of tony campolo. i miss eastern for all of the great challenging teaching that we were a part of. tony, a prominent figure in the Christian world, and definitely someone who can cause a storm in the Christian world because of […]

you’re working too hard … but…

so it looks like brian thomas is now in a slump…. 5 days since he last posted…woah…. but he has had some truth….. sarah and i have definitely been working hard… and we are finally enjoying some great vacation. i just thought i needed to share the best moment of today…we visited sarah’s brother and […]

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