Haven Ministries

I wish kids were like play-dough .I wish you could just mush them in a mold and have them turn out just the way you want … but if you are a parent you know that isn’t how it works.  In fact it doesn’t work in the way 4+5 =9 works.  The longer I parent, the more I am convinced it’s more art than science.

We had staff devotions this week and our guest speaker happens to be pregnant.  She is due in the beginning of April and already the she’s worried about “raising” her new ...

“I am undisciplined.”

“I don’t really have time for that.”

“I’m under grace, not the Law”

“There is no commandment that says “thou must have ½ an hour of devotions each day.”

I already can hear the objections and it isn’t even the New Year yet.   The topic of personal devotions is a minefield.

As someone who works two jobs and has a young family, I recognize time is at a premium.  I realize the tyranny of the ...

I don't know about you, but I've had a hard time listening to HAVEN Today this past week. I'm not having a hard time because of the program quality or the pace of the broadcast. I'm having a problem with the content.  That is to say there is something about the idea of "living on less and liking it more" that doesn't sit well with me.

You see, I like stuff. I like comforts.  I like to live on more not less.  I'm already spending my evenings looking at the Black Friday ads that ...

It hasn’t gone away.  We haven’t been able to spend our way out of this “Great Recession.”   No one seems to know what to do.  You can watch the presidential candidates debate back and forth about ways to fix the mess we are in, but I’m not sold that any of their plans will work.  One thing they all agree on is something has to be done…but the economy is so big, the dollar numbers so difficult to wrap your head around, and the red tape so thick it seems that only some yet to be ...

Temptation … it seems to be everywhere.  It assaults us daily at home, at work, even in the car.  No place seems safe.

I was listening to a HAVEN Today Broadcast this week and heard Charles Morris share from Christ’s temptation in Matthew Chapter 4 – when the Son of God was himself tempted

…tempted to doubt the word of God (as we often are)

…tempted to demand things from the Lord and put him to the test (he becomes our “genie”)

…tempted to worship things other than God.

Jesus fought these temptations with the Word of God.

When we are ...

Where were you when the towers fell?

I was driving up the 55 freeway to Ambassador, listening to the radio and I couldn't believe my ears - a plane had crashed into The Twin Towers ... and our nation hasn't been the same since.

It was a defining moment in our history which is still shaping who we are today.  It's because of that fact that all next week the HAVEN team is producing material around the commemoration of September 11^th.

-Tuesday night in New York City, Charles Morris will be recording a special 3 minute commentary that ...