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Your Dominant Life Value (Read Mark 12:29-31)

What is your dominant life value? According to author Tom Holladay, your dominant life value is what you base your decisions on. Is it money? Happiness? Fame? Comfort? Security? Attention? Fun? Whether you realize it or not, something drives your everyday decisions. Let me explain this further. If money is your dominant life value, then you will always choose the option that provides the most financial gain. If happiness, you will choose what will provide the most happiness. When given a choice, your choice will be dictated by your dominant life value. This week Frazer begins a new series entitled Follow Jesus. It is our hope that the next five weeks will be transformational… Read more

Experiencing Pain, Seeing Miracles – Psalm 50:15

What if there are some things we will not know or cannot do without experiencing pain? I am overwhelmed by God’s extravagant grace that has been poured out on me, a sinner. It was nearly a week ago, that I was running on solid ground when in an instant it began to crumble and fall apart. It was during the Saturday morning Transformation Run at Fain Park. I was enjoying what was supposed to be a day filled with recreation. First, a four-mile run, and then my son’s soccer game, followed by a trip to Tallahassee to see my Florida State Seminoles play the Oklahoma Sooners! As I made the final turn to the finish line, I saw a small crowd cheering us on, helping us to finish… Read more

10 Years Later…

The year was 2001. It was a normal morning. I was getting ready for work, eating breakfast with my daughter (Kaylee) and my wife. We were watching the popular TV show Good Morning America, when all of sudden life in America would change forever. One plane, then another, and another and another crashed into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. When all was said and done nearly 3,000 people lost their lives and America lost her innocence. Feelings of helplessness spread across the entire nation. It was in that moment I looked at my young daughter and realized that not only my life, but also her future would never be the same. But then, the… Read more