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Escape Performance, Be Captured by Grace

September 1, 2016

Soon after my conversion to Christianity, I began laboring in the work of ministry…I convinced myself during my initial days of salvation that busyness equaled holiness. If I was idle, I was sinning and God was mad at me. Couple …

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Does the Bible Really Say That?

June 28, 2023August 21, 2016

When I was a young Christian, the Holy Spirit put in my heart such a yearning for Scripture that I began reading through the New Testament every week. By the end of my second week, I was astonished at what …

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6 Steps to Prevent Misquoting Scripture

August 18, 2016

Don’t just think you are quoting the Bible, know you are. These six guidelines will help you teach with accuracy—and fill in the gaps with contextual understanding. Don’t assume that you know what a passage means based on how others …

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Don’t Start Something; Join Something

August 18, 2016

We are too quick to want to start movements and too slow to join them. We live in a culture of advocacy. We are overwhelmed by causes banding together to fight deep injustices. It’s in our faces and our social …

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9 Leadership Truths Worth Tweeting

August 18, 2016

Lessons learned throughout your life will become the underlying assumptions to guide you. Eventually, your ministry philosophy will hinge on these life leadership lessons. While all leaders operate from a ministry philosophy, effective leaders articulate it well. Here is a …

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May I See Your I.D. Please?

August 17, 2016

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. …

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‘Abba, get me a bagel” and similar prayers that work

June 28, 2023August 17, 2016

Like the discipline of doing nothing, the discipline of praying simply requires a great deal of faith. It is difficult to pray simple words, phrases, or nothing at all and believe that our Father is intimately attuned to our needs, …

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How Cornbread May Be the Bread of Life in Your Neighborhood

August 15, 2016

Neighboring is a lost art, but people have not lost a heart for it. Not by a long shot. That was the case for Lance and Sherri Ford. They wanted to reach out to their neighbors, and not just once …

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Presence Requires Absence

August 15, 2016

To be able to be present with people in this chaotic world you need to embrace times of absence. We need to put away our phones, put away our to-do lists and deadlines. We must be intentional about being still …

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Prayer: From Duty to Delight

August 4, 2016

The school bus pulls heavily away from our house, and I turn from the door. Through the house I go, switching off lights and turning down the radio that plays constantly to the menagerie in my son’s room. Then I pull …

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