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Many believers experience anxiety when the topic of evangelism is mentioned. Why do we feel such anxiety? I think there are only a select few people who have the gift of evangelist who do not experience this anxiety. Could it be that we ( Read more... )

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I’m not sure that anything I say will prepare you for the power and blunt honesty of this message. If you are a man, married, single or divorced, and you claim to be born again, you must view this video all the way to the end. It is a little over an hour in length, so I ( Read more... )

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Just a quick note. I’ve been dwelling upon a few scattered verses over the last month or so. One of them is John 18:37:

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into ( Read more... )

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I seldom come across videos which made me think and feel the way this one did. Mark Driscoll’s ministry continues to deliver messages to my soul directly from the Holy Spirit which lay my heart bare. My heart wrenched as I listened to these words. And the truth he speaks at ( Read more... )

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I wanted to share with you all the biggest discovery of this year for me. This needs to begin with a confession. My life has been marked by inconsistency in regard to “quiet times” or whatever you want to call them (Personally, I eschew the use of that phrase, but that’s ( Read more... )

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In my sermon preparations for this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about humility. I’ve come to the stark conclusion that I think too highly of myself more often than I’d like to admit. I’m sure if I told you exactly what my “high” thoughts were you’d think I’m making much ado ( Read more... )

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In my quiet times for the past few weeks, I’ve began alternating between the Gospel of Mark and 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians is a challenging book. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken the time to study it, but 1 Corinthians is as informative to the living of our Faith as Romans ( Read more... )

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There is a hot topic that keeps rearing its head among us and that is home groups. In the months past, I’ve had several people inform me of their desire to be a part of a home group. So among church leadership we’ve had discussions about home groups. Several questions arise:

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Something that has been a pet topic of mine for a while now is the issue of true conversion. Maybe because for a long time I struggled with whether my conversion was genuine. I mean, without going into the minutia of the details, I had two false alarms prior to being genuinely ( Read more... )

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I hope this message finds everyone well. We have had some challenging weeks since September 9 in our adult small groups. John Piper has charged us with a tall task. Finding our deepest satisfaction in God himself; not in His blessings, not in His gifts but in Him alone. The ( Read more... )