My small group was having a discussion this week about why the writers of the New Testament had to correct so much false doctrine. But as I thought about it, the real issues is why does the church today have so much false teaching present. Looking at the early gentile believers, they didn’t grow up [...]
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Sometimes God will teach me things just through the ordinary stuff in life. Deena and I have been working out every day. We have been using a workout DVD that is supposed to help us shread 20 pounds in 30 days, but that’s not going to happen. We have been going to the local YMCA [...]
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Over the last two days I have read another incredible book called, “Forgotten God” by Francis Chan. He’s also the author of “Crazy Love.” I would strongly recommend both of these books for anyone desiring to grow in their faith and obedience in Christ. I want to share a few ways that I was really [...]
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Over the last two days I have read Bill Hybels’ book, “Too Busy Not to Pray.” This was another book that will be life transformational for me. Bill is the pastor of Willow Creek Community church and he wrote this book during the early days of his church and during it’s years of rapid growth. [...]
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Have you ever read one of those books that was just hard to put down? Today I finished reading “Radical” by David Platt. It took me less than two days to read it. That’s a miracle if you just knew how slow a reader I actually am. Just to let you know, I’m keeping up [...]
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This past week I was so blessed to attend the Creation Pastors Conference. I have to admit that I was running on information overload for most of the week. Our sessions began around 8:30 in the morning and we concluded most nights after 10:30. The preaching and teaching was just amazing! We took in as [...]
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Today’s Reading: Matthew 17-24 One day mother of James and John came to Jesus and asked him to allow her two sons to sit on his right and his left in his kingdom. Jesus told her that it wasn’t his place to decide, God would decide. Now check out what happens with the other disciples [...]
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Today’s Reading: Matthew 10-16 In my reading this morning, something really stood out as I’m preparing to preach on people getting involved in Kingdom work through their local church. At Sonlight, we believe that every member is a minister. It’s not the responsibility of the pastors to carry out the ministry of church. God’s word [...]
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Today’s Reading: Matthew 1-9 Over the next two months my goal is to read through the New Testament twice and evaluate where to go next. Lately I have felt that God has been leading me to know more and more about his word. I want to be become so familiar with God’s word and what’s [...]
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Our Life Group has been reading the book of First John every day this week. Tonight, as I was reading through it for the fourth time, God really spoke to me about showing love through actions. As I read that, I realized how much love people have shown me over these eight years of pastoring [...]
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