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16 January 2008
Sweat the Small Stuff!
Let’s play word association.
I say Dog. You say _____.
You say up. I say down.
Ok, those were too easy. How about this one?
I say Titanic. You say _________.
Right, Rivets!
What? You were thinking more like, iceberg? Okay, okay, so most people would probably say iceberg, but if you did, that probably means you believe the iceberg was […]
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15 January 2008
Overwhelmed!
Another weekend where the services were standing room only! And, as I promised, I issued a challenge to the people to actually be the SALT of the earth that Jesus told us we were.
And you responded!
Dozens and dozens signed up for classes this coming weekend!
Over 50 people showed up at our Southbrook Monroe sight to […]
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14 January 2008
The Cancer’s not worth the Vitamin C
This is actually a follow up to my middle of the night post yesterday, the other side of the same coin…
All that restlessness over wolves among sheep…read here to catch up. I’m not finished sorting through this one. I mean, sure we need to be careful to identify wolves because some can merely be hurting […]
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13 January 2008
Can’t Sleep
Oh God, please , No!
It’s 4:52 AM and I have to preach the first of 3 sermons in just a few hours!
I need my sleep!
Not buying it? Ok, I’ll get up.
And so it goes. It’s familiar territory for me. And whenever I lay in bed with the Lord’s voice whispering over and over in my […]
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11 January 2008
An Exersize in Futility — Part 4
Here is the final part to this looooooooong (but hopefully enjoyable and informative) series. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that it has a part A and a part B. This is part A.
Thought I forgot about it, didn’t you?
Well, I didn’t. I just couldn’t quite figure out how to keep it short. […]
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10 January 2008
I’ve Never Moved a Mountain.
I’ve never moved a mountain with my faith.
No, Mt. Saint Helen’s eruption wasn’t orchestrated by me.
As I said, I’ve never moved a mountain…
but I believe I could.
Don’t be too concerned for my mental health. I do live in reality, but my reality includes a God of the universe who is in the mountain […]
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9 January 2008
Many Men Manned Up!
Say that 3x fast!
I’m pumped to know that so many men at Southbrook are interested in learning to become the best godly leaders they can possibly be. Here are some of the comments I received from this post last week…
Preston says:
I look forward to the growth and encouragement.
I will pray to God that he will […]
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8 January 2008
Future Hindsight
Huh?
Yep, you read that right, ‘Future Hindsight.’ Wouldn’t it be great if hindsight weren’t the only kind of vision that was 20/20?
Sure it would, and the good news is that it’s not.
I was wresting with this the other day in my quiet time with the Lord. Lately I’ve been going through the Psalms. In Psalm […]
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6 January 2008
I told you the best was yet to come!
I don’t know if I’ll be persona non grata or what after today. Conventional wisdom says I should have cut the message short to help with crowd management.
Though it has yet to be proven, there’s strong medical evidence that I may have been born with absolutely no conventional wisdom.
Unbelievable! It was so humbling to see […]
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5 January 2008
Who are you reading?
I guess I should feel good that I’m writing at a college level, but all the signs point to me needing to take it down a notch.
Wait! Hear me out. Did you know that most of the great speakers and writers people admire write and speak at about an eighth grade level?
Me either, but it’s […]
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4 January 2008
An Exersize in Futility — Part 3
I may have to enter the witness protection program after this series.
Oh well, as they say, truth hurts.
I’ve learned you can critique football, family members, politics, schools and a whole lot of other things, but say anything about denominations and overnight you’re about as popular as Salman Rushdie at an Iranian soccer game!
But let’s think […]
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3 January 2008
Time to ‘Man Up!’
I’m really sticking myself out there on this one, but I’ve felt a burden to reach out with all I’ve got to the husbands, fathers, and single men of Southbrook for Jesus Christ.
Some of you might remember a post that I did not too long ago in which Barna (check here as well) did […]
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2 January 2008
An Exersize in Futility! — Part 2
We left off last time with a very volatile sentence regarding Dysfunctional structures and potential disastrous leadership styles. Here was that sentence, “Almost sounds like church.”
What almost sounds like church? Well, at the risk of losing some readers for this series (the lethargic ones) I refer you to the previous post in the series here. […]
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1 January 2008
Year End Reflections (updated)
‘Auld Lang Syne’
What a year it was for us at Southbrook Church! And there are so many things to be thankful for. But there were some heartaches as well. In fact, looking back I keep coming to the same conclusion about this year. It was a Charles Dickens kind of a year—”The Best of […]
