I was out and about with my wife one time and we came across a church brochure.  I love church brochures.  They are highly reflective of how the church views its mission and how the church sees its purpose in the community.

Before I commence with the comments, let me be clear in saying that I [...]

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You know, I’ve said many times that if you are ever curious about the human race and feel like you may be out of touch with the culture in which you live, the best place to visit is Wal-Mart.
I’ve written about it before, but there’s no greater pastime than to go to Wal-Mart, grab you [...]

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Is it not a splendid thought that when we do anything for God, though it be but the simple offering of a prayer, or the helping of a fatherless child, we may do it with all the holy dignity of princely priests — Charles Spurgeon
God is amazing to me - though I wish I lived [...]

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I’m continuing my devotional reading of Heaven and came across this paragraph:
In Heaven, where everyone worships Jesus, no one says, “Now we’re going to sing two hymns, followed by announcements and prayer.” The singing isn’t ritual but spontaneous praise. (Revelation 5:11-14). If someone rescued you and your family from terrible harm, especially at [...]

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- I shall rise from the dead…I shall see the Son Of God, the Sun of Glory, and sine myself as that sun shines.  I shall be united to the Ancient of Days, to God Himself, who had no morning, never began…No man ever saw God and lived.  And yet, I shall not live till [...]

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It’s early this morning, but I’m still buzzing off what happened last night.  At our first vision meeting for Eternity, we had 17 people attend and I am so stoked about how it went.
I basically shared the vision, mission, values and story of how Eternity has come to be a reality and then we had [...]

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Unless of course you’re going to give great advice like this:
What are you most passionate about for your children?  What do you celebrate in your children?  When are they the object of your public commendation and celebration?  Let’s make sure our commendation and celebration are theologically informed.  Let’s make sure we are highlighting what really [...]

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For those who know me, you’re seeing that I’m reading this book and thinking to yourselves “Boy that was a long time coming”.
And you would be right.  The thing that I was pleased to learn reading this book was that I had been exposed to a great deal of its content already through various sermons [...]

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But here’s an interesting paragraph I read today in the blogosphere:
The problem is that this is not my point. My point is that there are fundamental problems in over-realized eschatology, both on the right and the left. I think we should stop quibbling about things like whether or not Lenexa, KS, has the same cultural [...]

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Yesterday was a great day.  I had the privelege to preach and my text was Luke 21 focusing on Jesus’ wonderful promise that even though we will be hated for His names sake, not a hair on our head will perish.
If you would like to listen to the sermon, you can find the link to [...]

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