Interesting conversation with a friend of mine last week.
Often we find ourselves sharing about how we’re absolutely loving where we are in life and the things that we’re involved with.  However, this time I guess I was whining a bit about how I had to preach this past sunday, and then had to preach again [...]

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I just stumbled onto Outreach Magazine’s annual “Fastest Growing Churches” list.
Here are the official stats in pdf form.
Now I haven’t looked in-depth at this list, nor am I really in any place to say anything like this - but here were two thoughts that came up
1. Would God make a list like this? (well, course [...]

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How Awesome is He who created everything I see!
Such beauty, and wonder, such majesty!
I look at my daughter, and see the marks of His kiss,
I look at my hands, are these fingerprints mine or are they His?
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Oh goodness, I’m such a geek…

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I’ve been volunteering weekly at Sanctuary for the last few months.
The first time I was there, I was surprised how many guys were playing bridge…
I ask, “Where’d you learn to play bridge?” (As I’m thinking only grannies play bridge).
“Jail”, one guy says
“oh”.
I talk to another dude who’s sketching and has some wild tattoos on his [...]

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My ‘wants’ often take away from the ‘needs’ of others on the planet?

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Here’s another idea.
What if we as church leaders weren’t so obsessed with building a quasi-kingdom of God through our local churches and instead did everything we could to connect our entire city to the Living God?
How many of us are actually a part of metropolitan churches where we drive past thirty other churches on a [...]

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I’ve been shaving my head about once a year for the past few years. I’m too cheap to pay for a hair cut and don’t quite know how to cut my own hair, so I just shave it all right off.
My wife has told me in the past that I look good with the [...]

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I’ve been ‘using’ Stellar for a number of illustrations in probably half of the presentations, workshops, and sermons I’ve given over the last year.
I figure she won’t be letting me do so in a couple years so now’s my chance.

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