My Thanksgiving Top 10

10 – Our servicemen and women who are serving faithfully in difficult and dangerous places!
9 – The privileges and freedoms of living in the USA!
8 – The challenges and obstacles of life God uses to grow me!
7 – The privilege of serving with one of the greatest church staffs ever assembled!
6 – The opportunity to serve as pastor of one of the most supportive, encouraging, focused, and fired-up churches in the world!
5 – Some of the greatest friends a man could ever have!
4 – My extended family and all they have invested in me!
3 – My three uniquely different children who bring great joy to my life!
2 – My awesome wife who has patiently walked with me through 22+ years of marriage, parenting, ministry and life!
1 – God’s generous, gracious, unmerited gift of salvation through the atoning sacrifice of His precious Son Jesus Christ.  I was converted 37 years ago and have never been the same!  I’m so thankful for His indwelling presence, His Word, His Plan, His enabling power, His sustaining grace, and everything else that is a part of being “in Christ.”  God is so good!!