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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it’s easier, it scales and it’s profitable. But people don’t like it – we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. – Seth Godin   Bored out my mind. Nothing can give a parent more confusion and frustration than dealing with a child who is bored with their life.  Particularly in the arenas of school and church (if you are a part of either), so many kids are enduring the normal everyday humdrum of life in our educational institutions.  We work, striving hard everyday to provideRead More →

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It’s time. Another headline. Another tragedy…this time bigger than the last. Massacre.  Death.  Insanity. The world gone crazy.  The world gone mental.  The world…gone.   Here’s where the solutions we must create meet their destiny. But we can’t go about answering our questions with solutions we never get around to. Legislation isn’t the answer.  Writing better songs won’t fix this.  Thinking about change won’t ever change anything. The answer lies in old wisdom.  Ancient truth for a new day. Past solutions for present problems.  The deeper rooted issue lies in the refusal we have to own up to our own humanity and our own brokenness.Read More →

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The crisis in our nation is not a financial one, not a moral one, and not a social one. Make no mistake, we have a leadership crisis. The desire for power, for comfort, for approval…these are the driving idols of the human heart. Why would they not drive our search for a leader? As a result, our faith in politics betrays our faith in God. Read More →

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“And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.  For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?” Luke 9:23-25 Following I’m following Jesus. I may not always look like it. I may not always say or do the things He says to say or do… But to the best of my ability, I’m following Him.   His way is notRead More →

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Put down your picket signs, your white-colored, black-colored, middle eastern-colored glasses….

Put down your raised fists, your guns, your rights to yourself, your pre-conceived ideas of what other people are or are not…

Put down your hatred, your lack of vision, your selfish ways…

Pick up a cross…Read More →

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“We taught Christians to see themselves as the church in our city, instead of seeing church as only an event they attend on Sunday. They learned how to see all of life as sacred and every action as part of God’s missionary work in the world. They began to see that he was in them, working through them in the normal stuff of life.” Jeff Vanderstelt From A Consuming People to A Missional People? In our journey of learning how to be missionaries to our own city… I want to take a step back today before I share with you the next series of videosRead More →

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I refuse to bow to the prevailing ideology that has pervaded the church that the times we are entering into are the worst times. Perhaps it is true that the darkness is looming, the clouds are starting to cover the spiritual realm here in our free America. But I believe with the darkness, comes hope that the light of Christ will overcome and that he will do it through us…His church.Read More →

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But today I want to make a few observations from John Chapters 13-17 about what the Upper Room Experience was and why Jesus words during this time were the most significant words spoken to his apprentices. Perhaps as we explore these together, you will find yourself leaning in to the edge of the dinner table, listening to His words, heeding His voice, submitting to the ways of His Kingdom. Read More →

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God is telling a story with his creation. It is not simply for the beauty of the creation that He gives us forests and oceans, canyons and sweeping sunsets. He is telling a story. There is something that must be created that hasn’t been created yet. And we get to be a part of that creating process.Read More →

This is not a test

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This Is Not A Test Life is not a practice run… Your present reality is the playing field… Run your race now… Stop waiting for the gun to fire… It’s already gone off…   This is not a test.   Keep moving forward.. Never looking back… Eyes on the finish… Run your race now… The game is underway… Time is too short… Give it all you’ve got…   This is not a test.   No temptation is uncommon… No problem is too large… Nothing under the sun is new… Nothing is accomplished apart from Christ… Suck the air into your lungs… Hit the ground withRead More →