The Danger Of Testing God

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This may sound triv­ial or “duh” to you, but one of the things that I’ve been re-learning lately, much in part to the book A Pray­ing Life by Paul Miller, is that God really is there on the other end of the line. He is active, engaged, listening…and this is the often for­got­ten part: responding. […]

Waiting And Winning

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Our church (Mid­town Fel­low­ship) has been meet­ing for five years. We have 450-ish mem­bers, 60-something small groups, and around 800 peo­ple com­ing. And we have never (except for a VERY brief stint) had ser­vices on Sun­day morn­ings. Can you believe that? (Just in case you don’t know, that is extremely rare.) We’ve begged and pleaded […]

Mandy Moore Led Matt Chandler To Jesus?

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I don’t know of any per­son alive who’s faith has been more of an inspi­ra­tion to me than that of Matt Chan­dler (pas­tor at The Vil­lage Church in TX). I don’t even lis­ten to his pod­cast reli­giously like many peo­ple I know, but God has used his preach­ing to grow and influ­ence me in profound […]

African American Church Takes Over A KKK Shop In SC

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This story from BET almost sounds too good to be true. But I am oh so very glad that it is true. (Excerpt below) The Black church has taken over the KKK, or at least a store sell­ing its mem­o­ra­bilia in South Car­olina. A cir­cuit court judge recently ruled that New Begin­nings Bap­tist Church is […]

Forget Turning Over A New Leaf

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Fol­low­ing Jesus isn’t about “turn­ing over a new leaf”. It’s about a whole new tree…a whole new us, by God’s grace. –Scotty Ward Smith The word “new” is all over the Bible. It is a word that God seems to be par­tic­u­larly fond of. Here are just a few exam­ples: There­fore, if any­one is in Christ, […]

At The Edge Of Their Seats

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Here is a Christ­mas poem/spoken word per­formed by my friend Ant Fred­er­ick. Please do enjoy it because it’s awe­some.   Also, Merry Christ­mas! And lastly, this: Long lay the world in sin and error pin­ing Til He appeared and the soul felt it’s worth. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yon­der breaks […]

Get To The Heart

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The video below is a short clip from John Piper with some advice to young pas­tors on lead­ing their fam­i­lies. How­ever, it really is applic­a­ble to every­one, because at the heart it is really about com­mu­ni­ca­tion. I watched it over a week ago and it messed me up. Specif­i­cally, the story about his 11 year […]

gloriously empty hands

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The blaz­ing sun beat down on my face and woke me from numb­ness. I tried to fall back asleep but had no luck—it was too hot already. Look­ing down at my watch, it said 10:35. “Dang it,” I mur­mured. Sleep was the only reprieve around here, so I tried to do so as much as […]

collision & richard dawkins

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I’m really excited about see­ing this movie when it comes out. Octo­ber 27th… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtFENgBUllA] On a related note, I went to see Richard Dawkins tonight, the promi­nent evan­ge­lis­tic atheist/evolutionary biol­o­gist. It was a great expe­ri­ence and here are a few thoughts: He is a smart dude, and has the added bonus of a British accent, which […]

who are you looking at?

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“The man who has faith is the man who is no longer look­ing at him­self, and no longer look­ing to him­self. He no longer looks at any­thing he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not [even] look at what he hopes to be as the result of his […]

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