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 had this life metaphor in my mind the last while inspired by this unforgettable scene in “Indiana Jones and the temple of doom“.
It’s where this cult leader uses his bare hands, ripping out the heart of another person, and allowing him to watch it still beating in his hands right before he dies.
My mission [...]

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I’m preaching through a two week message on Ephesians 2:10 - the idea of being God’s living artwork. This past Sunday I passed out play-doh to each person in the community and had them shape and express thoughts through them.
I also pointed out how if they looked up close, they’ll find their fingerprints all [...]

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One early morning a decade ago, I heard on the radio that the first one hundred people to line up to purchase Radiohead’s OK Computer would be given a free ticket to their North American premiere at the Opera House.
I didn’t have a car at the time and ended up pulling a friend out of [...]

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We had an awesome anniversary. I don’t know about other guys, but every year I think, how on earth am I going to top the last year?
This year my goal was to spend no more than ten bucks on the night (I was so tempted to do the fancy dinner thing, but that’d just [...]

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Continuing our Creativity & Spirituality series.
When it comes to creativity quantity quite often must preside over quality, at least initially. Yvz always tells me how the kids that she teaches always struggle with spelling when they are writing stories. She continuously encourages them to just make it up and simply get their ideas [...]

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Have you ever been out walking, noticed a dog, and stopped to play with it, and then realized you never once even looked at the owner in the eye? I did once, and when I looked back I saw look of disgust staring back at my blind eye.
A friend of mine came by a [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
Groups of four were gathered and given a single styrofoam cup. Everyone was invited to communicate to one another what their hopes for the church might be.
The only catch was that they could only communicate in silence through manipulating the styrofoam cup.
What we discovered during the process…
- The [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
I’ve been at IKEA seven times in the last eight days. I’ve found it extremely conducive for my school work, writing, scheming & dreaming. It’s got an excellent $1 breakfast, bottomless coffee or drinks, and a LACK of an internet connection.
I absolutely love having the world [...]

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Continuing the series on Creativity and Spirituality, the song writers today are the prophets and poets of our time.
I think I’ve spent all my life looking for myself and God within music. My wife can attest to the number of songs I rant about endlessly in where I find faith and song converging.
Here’s just [...]

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