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Phillips Brooks, in his Lectures on Preaching, said a powerful statement that should be tattooed on the minds of ...
I came back from a long day of classes and meetings, just wanting to let my mind unwind. As I set my bag ...
So how do honesty and grace connect? The grace of God is the very thing that allows us to be honest. If it were ...
“Imagine there’s no heaven…it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people ...
Grasping for a relationship with God isn't always easy.
If we are honest, it can sometimes even seem ...
In high school there I had this one girl that became the bandit of my breath and the captor of my heart.
She ...
You know those project in your life that seem to always be there and never really make progress? I seem to have ...
Within the Body of Christ, worship is more than musical songs of great arrangement or harmonious melody. Worship ...
Dr. David E. Carlson wrote an intriguing article in the mid 70’s that was delivered at the Research in Mental ...
The command for us to share our faith literally in black and white in the Bible. But I gotta tell you, just ...
Culture screams that sex is just a part of life and nothing more than a Saturday night entertainment activity. You ...
God has laid out a clear mandate and plan the universal church to call people to repentance because He cares for ...
Far too many young people are using the F word as a creative expression without consequence.
This must stop.
The ...
This weekend I started the new sermon series called “Abide”. For two weeks we will be studying what God says ...
The main role of a pastor is to care for the sheep. One of the main ways that we care for those in our churches is ...
[Part 2 on honesty and peace | read part 1 here]
The young man trudged along the rocky path to the field ...
Everyone goes through life with a gnawing sense of unease, an unspoken dread we’ve lived with for so long we ...
The storyline of redemption unfolds throughout the Holy Scriptures and reveals God’s intent to reconcile people to ...
How do you kill your giants?
That's right - One at a time.
Yes, there are millions of saying like this, but ...
Vintage.
There is something about things that are vintage – relics of the past – that cause a certain ...
Anger is the aircraft carrier in the fleet of our emotions. Not only because of its massive size, but also its ...
Allow me start tell you a story that still sends shivers up and down my spine. I was sitting on the New York ...
Over the last decade, I have become increasingly aware of God’s supremacy in all things. Through study, ...
I have an insatiable passion to find just the right sermon illustration (maybe it comes from my magic background). ...
Dear God of Abraham, Isaac and - of all people - Jacob?
Why are you his God?
Why did you bless such a dirty ...
My sister sent me this article, and I felt it was something that needed to be shared. For more resources from ...
I bet you’ve heard this phrase before, “The pot calling the kettle black.” This idiom was probably coined back ...
It was a discouraging morning. Peter, James and John had been fishing all night and come back empty handed. As a ...
When I served as the Associate Pastor for a large church I needed a way to connect with all my staff each week. In ...
It was bone-chilling cold outside, as most nights are in Chicago. I had just gotten off from waiting tables at a ...
So how do honesty and grace connect? The grace of God is the very thing that allows us to be honest with God. If ...
If you have worked in a church, you are aware that ministry is messy. There are times where things happen that ...
Perhaps one of the most unique of all the Minor Prophets is Hosea. Within the Bible pages is an unhappy love story ...
Being honest means that we use words to express what reality is to us (more feeling to fact). On the other hand, ...
In our Christian faith, it is normal to say, “Praise the Lord” for something good that happens. It is normal to ...
A few nights ago I was at a restaurant with my wife and her sister. As we arose from the table I noticed the two ...
Some of the people who have impacted me the most in this life are those who have already passed from it.
The ...
My brother said to me, “I think that I am afraid of God more than I fear God.” This honest statement echoed within ...
Timidly she approached me after all the other youth had emptied the room. Her question was nothing to be ...
Sometimes you just gotta call things what they are. The sky is blue, the grass is green and Ms. Abramovic ...
Have you ever had your teen just sit there and stare at you when you are trying to talk to them? You swear they ...
A few days ago I had a conversation with my writer and editor friend about the pace at which I can write in ...
Carefully, paragraph by paragraph, the book of Acts has been evaluated in the following pages. Each paragraph in ...
If you’ve been using OmniFocus for any amount of time you’re well aware that the best way to create actions is in ...
I think that some people assume pastors don't have to be bold with their faith because of their profession. ...
George McDonald, one of C.S. Lewis’s favorite authors, once wrote:
“Jesus did not come to save us ...
Dwight Robertson once said, “The greatest gift you can give the world is your own intimacy with Christ.”
Yet ...
“For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you but Christ and Him crucified.”
1 Corinthians ...
The crinkled letter had obviously traveled thousands of miles to get to my mail box. The address was unfamiliar to ...
For my mom and I, it became routine. I would lie down next to her to read the same book that we had read at ...
“A soul under special manifestation of love weeps that it can love Christ no more. Mr Welch, a Suffolk minister, ...
I recently looked up the word, “Shepherd” in the dictionary. This is what I found:
shepherd |ˈ sh epərd| ...
We all met in the parking lot of the high school we meet in on Sundays. There were not many of us, but the ...
I had the honor of speaking to many of the Denver area Children’s pastors at a luncheon one Wednesday. If I am ...
I can't believe it has been sixteen years since the Columbine tragedy on April 20th 1999. On that day God made it ...
As an experiment, the great scientist Isaac Newton stared at the image of the sun reflected in a mirror. The ...
1 Corinthians 15:12, “How can some of you say there is no resurrection from the dead?”
If Christ did not rise ...
"...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer ...
One of the many lessons I’ve had to learn over and over in life is the importance writing everything down.
My ...
I KNEW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT.
I was sitting in the chapel service at my college as another student was on stage ...
Kayla was only five. She had been through more than the average five year-old. As a baby she as diagnosed with ...
Rembrandt, one of the most famous artists to ever live, painted a picture of Christ being raised on the cross. In ...
As you know, life is complex – it is full of so many different tasks, relationships and goals we have to be ...
Being worthy of Christ does not seem like an achievable goal to me. How can I “earn the right” to “be entitled” to ...
To trust is to give someone your most valuable possessions—tangible and intangible—and know they have your ...
I once heard a person say this: “I write so that I can experience life twice.”
At first I loved this quote. ...
The time in the Garden ended when He went to the disciples a third time and found them sleep. He alarmed them to ...
You don't have to live long to learn that relationships are dependent on communication. My best friend growing up ...
Recently I was asked, "Who have been your primary theological teachers, or influences?" In other words (apart ...
In 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 Paul smacks pride in the face. He keeps saying, “If I boast…I speak like a fool…I am a ...
When people ask me what my favorite color is, I always say “clear.”
Why? Well, the truth is probably ...
“It is impossible for God to lie.”
God can do everything, except not be God. Because He is God – meaning that ...
The Gospel message of Jesus Christ is the core of Christianity. Yet, there are too many Christians that have ...
Practical Steps for Anger and Conflict Resolution:
Focus on what I can do to correct it
Strive to ...
(The following is from a note I wrote to chandler several years ago...)
Chandler,
Today you shared your ...
I talk about being a kid often because life and believing seemed so much simpler then. When I was a kid I had a ...
In An effort to lose my “Pastor pooch” or my “Bible-Belly-Bump” (a.k.a my bulging stomach), I’ve decided to cut ...
I’ve been reading a book called, “Trust Agents” by Brogan and Smith. The premise of this book is that we can ...
Resistance is something Christ had to face often in His earthly ministry. From the Pharisees to the demons ...
A few years ago I was speaking in a small town high school. In the middle of my talk a girl from the balcony ...
One day while Molly and I were riding in the car I asked her, “Next year, at the beginning of 2012, what do you ...
Sometimes God calls us to take steps we’d rather not. Sometime He moves our stiff legs to bend in the exact way He ...
Recently I started using Evernote – for just about everything.
Somehow I was late to get on the ...
I once heard a pastor tell this story:
There was a priest that lived in the 1700’s. One Sunday morning he got ...
A man once told me, “To write a book is to write one’s self.” He was right.
When I write I feel most vulnerable ...
The last 24 hours have seemed as if my entire world was falling apart.
Have you had those days where you’re ...
It seems like more and more parents are struggling with their teen’s addiction to texting. Perhaps you’ve gotten ...
Part 1: Biographical Sketch of John, The Beloved Disciple
In this first sermon of the series, I took the time to ...
“You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him and keep His commandments and obey his voice, and you shall ...
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