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I Ran a Red Light, and God Showed Up

November 18, 2013 7 Comments
I Ran a Red Light, and God Showed Up

A week ago Janice and I were in North Carolina for a Leadership Conference with the South East District of Foursquare churches. On Friday night Janice would be receiving her ordination. We left our hotel in time to arrive at our meeting place for a reception for those being ordained. I approached an intersection and remembered that […]

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How to Not Live Like Skim Milk

November 4, 2013 13 Comments
How to Not Live Like Skim Milk

“We talk cream, but we live skim milk.” – Dwight Moody   Several years ago my wife Janice and I were delivering some food and praying with the residents of a low income housing complex. One of the lady’s we regularly visited would squeal like a little girl when we showed up with fresh fruit, something she […]

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How to Ignore the Lie

October 28, 2013 7 Comments
How to Ignore the Lie

Our circumstances tell us a lie to blind us from the truth of God’s vision for us.  God’s original plan for mankind was for us to live in a perfect relationship with Him. However, sin entered the earth through Adam and Eve and that our relationship has been broken ever since.   However, God sent Jesus […]

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Making Ministry Simple Every Day

October 22, 2013 5 Comments
Making Ministry Simple Every Day

Ministry every day really is not difficult. At least it should not be.   We have a lady that has been faithfully attending life church for over a year now. It is amazing to see how her relationship with Jesus has grown. For many months she had been out of work and each week we would pray […]

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It is Worth it All

October 14, 2013 3 Comments
It is Worth it All

I know there are those that think ministry is all glamorous and all Pastors do is spend an hour or two getting ready to preach. Yet there really is a lot that goes on behind the scene. For the majority of Pastors who lead small churches we really do take on a lot of different […]

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Prayer Keeps Us Looking

August 5, 2013 3 Comments
Prayer Keeps Us Looking

“Prayer keeps us looking. Prayer keeps the burden fresh…. Prayer sensitizes us to subtle changes in the landscape of our circumstances. When he begins to move, we are apt to recognize it.” – Andy Stanley    Prayer is probably the most powerful thing that connects us to God. Prayer brings us into alignment with God and his […]

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The Power of Break-Withs

July 29, 2013 0 Comments
The Power of Break-Withs

With a little bit of neglect life can become a trap of the mundane and a failure to live out our full potential. In the book

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Husbands: The Power of Your Words

July 22, 2013 11 Comments
Husbands: The Power of Your Words

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to […]

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4 Ways to Engage your Dream Today

July 15, 2013 6 Comments
4 Ways to Engage your Dream Today

It is wonderful to close our eyes and lean back and dream, to dream about our future job, retirement, family or future successes.  In those dreams everything is easy and all things work out. Sadly, life can be full of disappointment, struggle and hard work. If we are not careful, our dreams become nothing more than […]

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Samson – A Call to Live a Life Set Apart

July 8, 2013 4 Comments
Samson – A Call to Live a Life Set Apart

As followers of Jesus we are called to be set apart from the world, a concept that seems to have lost its true meaning in our modern society. However, it is woven throughout the Bible. You have Adam and Eve set apart in the Garden. Noah and his family set apart in the Ark. Then […]

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