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A New Self Discipline Journey
Lately I have become convicted about my lack of self discipline in pretty much all areas of my life. As I’ve meditated on the concept of discipline and how it currently looks in my life I have come to a startling and helpful realization: I am not prepared to be self disciplined because my mind… Read more
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Loving God With All My Strength
Something I’m learning about a “health journey” is that it’s called a “journey” for a reason. The state of your health is an ongoing process and throughout that process you will find yourself in many different stages. For example… That was a period of 18 years during which I put on about 85lbs. That’s not… Read more
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Birthday Cakes
An old friend of mine shared this video on Facebook this morning and well…I watched it…and well…you should too! To summarize, this boy was over the moon, ugly crying, happy about a birthday cake that he received from his adoptive parents for his birthday. Apparently something he had never had before. You and I, while… Read more
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Hunting Elephants In Squirrel Country
Church “metrics” are an interesting topic. Everyone has their idea of what are good metrics to keep an eye on to gauge success and health. In America, one of the biggest “success” and “health” metrics (despite what we are willing to admit to) is size. The size of churches service attendance… The size of churches… Read more
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Church Etiquette – How We Ought to Live
Today on social media, I saw a post with the following photograph attached. NOTE: the post said that this was as true today as it was when it was written. Here’s the photograph: Now, no offense intended here, however I’m being honest…the list in this photograph is more or less useless. It doesn’t have anything… Read more
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Church, STOP Using the words “Laity” and “Clergy”
I am just going to come right out and say it…the Church needs to stop using the word “laity” (or “lay-leader” or “lay-person”, etc.) AND the word “clergy”. I’ll give my reasons why shortly (and what the Bible says about leaders), but first…a little word lesson… “Laity” means = “uneducated” or “not belonging to the… Read more