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Here's the sermon I'm preaching tomorrow, Sunday, November 16, 2008. The text is Psalm 123. I hope your day is a good one. The Eyes of A Servant Psalm 123 NIV 1 I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.
bless the world
NOC2008 surpassed my expectations! I got to hear Erwin McManus, J John, Francis Chan; and I sat in on Doug Stringer's workshop titled, Who's Your Daddy? Great title and great seminar. I met Ed Stetzer of LifeWay, and Gary McIntosh of Talbot Seminary; plus, the great
Lectionary Yr A
The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:34-40 NIV'84 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the
Congregation
We have an answering machine on our home telephone. My cell phone number is posted and regularly published at our church. Our office phone will actually call my cell phone when someone leaves me a voice mail. In short, I am absolutely available 24/7, even when I'm
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Congregation
Outreach magazine publishes an issue each year featuring the most innovative churches in America. These churches aren't just big ones either, and the editors are looking for small churches that do things in an innovative way. What makes the difference in an innovative church and everybody else? These
Trends
"It is no longer the time of the heroic leader -- the leader who walks in and takes up all the space in the room. The job of today's leaders is to create space for other people -- a space in which people can generate new and
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Some in my Southern Baptist denomination are calling for more stringent church discipline. That's mostly because we can't find about half of our 16-million members. Obviously, some of our folks don't take church membership very seriously. The logical thing to do to solve that
Journey
Remember that scene from The Godfather? Don Corleone has just been hit. Michael, Sonny, Tom, and the Corleone gang, are trying to figure out how to settle the score. Michael, the cleancut college kid and war hero, volunteers to kill the guys responsible. Sonny chides Michael for letting it get
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The verdict is in the Victoria Osteen case. A jury of her peers (I assume all wives of wavy-haired televangelists) deliberated two hours before finding her not guilty. So, the Osteens' three-year legal nightmare has come to an end. However, if they had asked me how extremely rich, incredibly
Congregation
"It will be worth what we're spending if only one person gets saved." That comment came from a deacon when I was serving a previous church. He was referring to an expensive project we were undertaking. I nodded in agreement because his sentiment seemed so right.
church as abbey
Last Wednesday night we had a cookout at our church. Not a new idea or big news, but it was fun. Fun, despite the fact that we had to move inside from the town park next door because rain was on the way. Fun, even though we were jammed into