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Lenten Season Call to Prayer entry three


Another week of prayer has encouraged me to stay on my knees at the throne of our dear Lord.  To say, “Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner,” has refreshed my self-centered soul.  I can ask…. “Father, anything is possible in you. Take away this trial.

Lenten Season Call to Prayer entry two


What a fantastic time it has been for me to concentrate in prayer on the C3 family and on where Jesus is leading us. I admit it (prayer) has spilled into many more hours per week, not just the one hour I requested of you!  Man what a great habit to get into.

Lenten Season Call to Prayer


I want to thank you for joining me in the first week of praying for the needs of our Church and the direction the Lord is calling us.  I humbly ask you to continue with me in this season of prayer and as we prepare for Lent and perhaps a time of fasting. 

The Old Man


Scott Roley - Old Man

The song came out of an experience in my life where I found myself uncontrollably screaming at my children and flashing back remembering my father uncontrollably screaming at me. At that moment I recognized the reality of generational sin.

The Old Man - Video


We were up at a mountain retreat with our families. Everyone else had gone to bed, but Scott and I stayed up talking into the wee hours. Scott picked up his guitar and asked if he could share a song. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I heard. When the song was over I couldn't speak. We sat there in silence for a while. I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what. Finally, in a moment of profound clarity I think I said, "Wow".

The Old Man - Video


We were up at a mountain retreat with our families. Everyone else had gone to bed, but Scott and I stayed up talking into the wee hours. Scott picked up his guitar and asked if he could share a song.  I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I heard.  When the song was over I couldn't speak. We sat there in silence for a while.  I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what. Finally, in a moment of profound clarity I think I said, "Wow".

Resurrection of the Body


Hello and Happy Easter,

There is a potential slide that could occur in our thinking that begins with a rejection of heaven as an amazing place to be.  We have a difficult time believing that living forever as renewed humans could really be facinatiing.  Maybe we don't see our lives as all that remarkable now.  That is a shame.  We see the brokeness and assume we must do better if there is an afterlife to get to.  We want some miracle but don't see every element and molicule around us as just that.  Our conscience tells us what is right and wrong but we ignore it.

Poverty


This teaching video by Claudio Oliver is compelling but unsettling. We're comfortable with giving money. It's easy to do it from our home or office, and feel good about it. We're still trying to digest what Claudio Oliver is saying. We think we need some help. Any thoughts?

Scott and Dan

This World Is Not My Home


After doing twelve or more funerals in the past nineteen months, it has become clear to me that I (we) are not made for death.  The distance between a soul that has gone to be with the Lord and the body that remains at rest until He reunites them is where my grief lies.  That gulf is heartbreaking.  Standing with Sharlene Smith at Wes' gravesite sobered me to the fact that my journey has only just begun.  I feel old and am falling apart, but the truth is I haven't even started really living yet.  Life for me is defined more clearly by eternity and not by the temporal.  remember we have a ho

Wesley J. Smith


Scott and WesleyThis week, Wesley J. Smith, a friend of Scott and Linda, went home to be with his Lord and Savior. I remember meeting Wes in Madision Heights, Michigan, before Scott and Linda moved to Tennessee. Wes and Scott met in a bar where Albrecht, Roley and Moore were playing. He came to faith through his relationship with Scott. Wes did some management and bookings for AR&M for several years.

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