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Running on a treadmill… going through the motions…getting through the day…minimizing damage…just surviving. Those are not how ANY of us would decide to spend the next year, in our own personal lives, our marriage lives, our family lives or our ministry lives. But it’s...
Community + Outreach
Why the demographic shift happening in the church right now might be the most strategic moment for discipleship in decades Comedian John Mulaney once joked on SNL that Jesus’s greatest miracle was not walking on water or raising the dead. It was being an adult...
Community + Outreach
A dad approached me after a service at one of our partner churches with tears streaming down his face. He could barely speak. “For the first time in years,” he whispered, “my wife and I sat in church together. We actually heard the message. We worshiped. And we didn’t...
Community + Outreach
Pastors let’s be honest. We probably need to do a better job caring for our own souls. I have been a pastor for nearly three decades and I understand running after the important and urgent on a weekly basis but there were seasons when I neglected my personal...
Community + Outreach
Losing Something Valuable: A Story That Reveals True Urgency Have you ever lost something valuable? Maybe it was a piece of jewelry, your phone or credit card. Have you ever lost a child? It was a beautiful sunny mild night about 14 years ago. We went with my extended...
