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The Bible is not an ancient, irrelevant letter. It is a guide for living in our modern world with passion, ...
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A story of a storm in my life:
We all have those moments in life that we will never forget. You know the ones: ...
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I don't rest well. I find a way to get busy doing something with every minute of my ...
I have been formally counseling married people for over three years now, and the one thing I hear more than ...
Preaching well is not something I simply strive to do, it is something I am called to do. When I sit to plan my ...
There are few people I am more proud of in my life than my brother, Jake.
Take last night for example—Molly and ...
I have something exciting to share! Two days ago I received a call from the Grace Chapel elders. They were all on ...
Today we are in the Galilee region staying in the city of Tiberius. We started our time here by having a night out ...
Today I am in Joppa which is the southern end of the city today called Tel Aviv. The port of Joppa was of great ...
Sometimes the most significant things in life sneak up on us.
My first trip to Israel was one surprising moment ...
Communication is the crux of all relationships. We live with people who we love and some we merely stand. No ...
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The Christian life is a journey that requires strength, courage and perseverance. In this ...
A few days ago some of the counselors and I were jesting about starting a drive-thru counseling service. We ...
Mentoring has always been important to me. My father played a significant role in my development of valuing ...
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God has no partiality in who he saves and who he does not - so why do Christians so often ...
Prepare and Enrich
Prepare and Enrich is a tool that was designed by Dr. David Olsen to help evaluate the health ...
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Anger is the aircraft carrier in the fleet of our emotions. Not only because of its ...
Have you ever heard the phrase - “A wolf in sheep’s clothing?” It’s a statement that is often used to refer to ...
Biblical Counseling Coalition – Depression Articles
This site has an excellent list of articles, audio and video ...
Here we sit on the brink of a new year, a time seemingly to start over and reboot our life's hard drive. I am ...
Satan is a crafty enemy, but I don’t want to give him too much credit.
He is my enemy because he is an eternal ...
On Christmas Eve in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, an intense battle was taking place between French and ...
Slow Down and Savor Christ
There is almost never a day that goes by where I am not reminded to keep “Christ and ...
Watch: Elizabeth Hunnicutt’s “God of Hope” video
This woman has an amazing voice and a great heart for God. She ...
The last shepherd to return from gathering firewood dropped a meager load of sticks on the ground beside the ...
As a counselor, taking notes is one of the most important parts of my job. The details shared with me in a ...
So I was reading this passage in the Bible the other day it struck me hard…Check this out.
In Ephesians 5:1 it ...
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Augustine said, "Pride is the mother that gives birth to all other sins." If we do not keep ...
Do you remember as a kid making those turkeys out of a traced handprint or a pinecone? Do you remember the stories ...
Counseling within the church context is full of challenges.
Knowing what to offer it to your congregation and ...
I gotta tell you this story. A girl named Cecilia waited to talk to me one night after I finished speaking at a ...
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We all have a desire to leave our mark on this world. We want to our life to count for more ...
As an experiment, the great scientist Isaac Newton stared at the image of the Sun reflected in a mirror. The ...
It was my privilege to be able to interview long-time pastor and preaching , Alistair Begg, about ministry and ...
What would a forest be if it were not packed with trees? Imagine a forest of only 10 trees… 5 trees… 2 trees… ...
As a leader and pastor, one of my greatest struggles to is balancing time between work and family. Everyday this ...
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In this message I share the 6 roadblocks to why we are not honest with God. I believe that ...
Have you ever hated your place of work? Maybe you loved your job, but the place you perform the work is less than ...
One of my new favorite pastimes is to get rid of things. Over the last few decades of life, I have managed to ...
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God takes our integrity very seriously. In this message we look at the story of Ananias and ...
What side of the bed did you wake up on?
Mornings are really important to me, so I guess you could say that ...
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We all have dreams and desires. For example, I would love to travel most of Europe, see the Grand ...
Some of the kindest people in my life have said the hardest things. They hoped to cause a change, but instead ...
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"I Promise, I promise I promise."
We often will say these words wether we ...
There are hundreds of causes that we can engage with on a daily basis. While they are all important, few deal with ...
My job is to help people. While all jobs have some bad days, this is one that I enjoy even on the worst ...
In the heat of the summer night, Carrie stood in line to get in. Her hair was all done up. Her make-up was ...
We’ve all got ‘em – those secret mistakes we never want anyone to know. The things we delight in when we are in ...
Here are my Study Notes on Acts 4.1-12
I to try and make every moment of my life count. This is partially because I believe my life is a vapor, quickly ...
My dad was a linebacker for the Air Force Academy football team, and he told me this story: After the huddle ...
Let's face it - connecting with youth doesn't always come naturally. There are times in our youth ministry where ...
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Wanting to be closer to ...
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Recently I did the course by Michael ...
This is a guest post by Daniel Henderson at www.strategicrenewal.com
David, the great Old Testament figure, was ...
And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. And he took ...
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Recently I've had to have some conversations with people that have been hard - to say the least. Truth has had to ...
This week my closest friend, Keith "Chet" Clerihue, went home to be with the Lord. A few years back he asked me to ...
This is without a doubt one of the hardest of the parables to exegete. I struggled with this passage for nearly ...
“A dear friend of mine who was quite a lover of the chase, told me the following story:
‘Rising early one ...
Last year my daughter, Grace, met Winnie the Pooh for the first time. Come to think of it, so did I - yet there ...
I’ve heard many strong leaders give this piece of advice; “Don’t let the urgent knock out the important.”
While ...
One time a mentor casually asked me if I answered the phone on Tuesdays. It took me a moment to process his ...
The stars were shining bright as I looked to the sky tonight. I could not help but be mesmerized by the glow that ...
In an recent email from my dad, he wrote:
One of the most intriguing questions is: if God were to grant you ...
Every time I preach, there are over 10 different steps that I take to get my sermon to the final outline. I've ...
This morning my mom called. She is sweet and always has a way of sharing truth in love. After we caught up on life ...
I recently did the grocery shopping for our family. It took an hour longer than expected, but the journey was well ...
Being prideful is different than being confident.
We are not supposed to be wet washcloths or people without ...
We were standing in the lobby of the gym as I gave excuse after excuse why working out is so hard for me. Finally, ...
When I was younger I used to dream God-sized dreams. It was not rare for me to call owners of large buildings, ...
We have no greater mission as followers of Christ, or as His bride, the Church, than to see people come into a ...
Most preachers knows that on any given days the pews are full of babies up to grandparents of the faith, and ...
I once heard Alister Begg get up in front of a group of pastors and say, "I've heard the best sermons are those ...
How you start sermon preparation is very important.
I often relate sermon preparation to bearing a child. ...
The very nature of my position of leadership in the church demands that I spend a lot of time in meetings. ...
When I used to be involved in Gospel magic, I remember a highly acclaimed magician getting up at one of our ...
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, ...
Honesty relieves us of the scourge of self-judgment. So long as we remain in hiding, alone with our sin, it is ...
Maybe you would argue with me, but I am pretty sure my mom is the world’s most amazing mother. She has given me ...
Honesty clears away the falsehoods that keep us from seeing God’s love as it really is. Way back in Eden, the ...
There are often things that gnaw at our soul, but we don’t realize it or want to admit it. Sadly, these things ...
The bottom of his pants were splashed with mud and it looked as if this homeless man had been walking for days. It ...
How foolish are we to hide from God? If you’re like me, you have times in your life when you try to get away from ...
“Become the sermon,” said the wise old sage of preaching to his zealous student, “Allow the message to become as ...
H-O-P-E.
As a child, I always thought “Hope” was just the girl who lived across the street. As I’ve grown up, ...
As a pastor, I have the opportunity to do quite a bit of counseling. I get to sit with the people that I care ...
If you’re like me, you can find a thousand excuses for putting off something you don’t want to do. I can walk a ...
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