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This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Already/Not YetMy sophomore year of college, several friends and I heard about a cliff overlooking a lake about 20 minutes away from our little town. So of course, we did what any college kids would do: immediately hopped in our ...
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This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series VenomDownload a PDF of the Prayer Vigil here. “Prayer is not introspection. It is not a scrupulous, inward-looking analysis of our own thoughts and feelings but is an attentiveness to the Presence of Love personified inviting us to an encounter. ...
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This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series VenomThe following is a responsive reading written to be used in the Good Friday gathering that concludes our Venom sermon series. The Pastor(s) read the plain text, and the congregation responds with the bold text. In the beginning, God created ...
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This entry is part 9 of 8 in the series VenomSince the Garden, the Snake has stood for our worst impulses. In Christian art, the snake is our pride, our conviction we can get along without God. The Snake embodies our bent away from God, our conviction that our way ...
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The StoryMen podcast I do with Matt Mikalatos and Clay Morgan put out our 10th episode today. Head over to the StoryMen page to check it out! In this episode, we talk about Crowdsourcing, and how the Church should be taking note to recapture the spirit of the Body of ...
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A hand fell heavy on my shoulder and I knew I was in trouble. The thing about a hand on the shoulder: it’s one of those universal signs. When a hand falls on your shoulder, you don’t have to ask whether it’s in friendship. It was a Wednesday afternoon during ...
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Olympus Has Fallen took me off-guard. Studios typically reserve the first quarter of the year for movies they don’t think will make much money (because they’re not very good), so I went in hoping to be mildly entertained (like I was in Dead Man Down). But I got more than ...
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Olympus Has Fallen took me off-guard. Studios typically reserve the first quarter of the year for movies they don’t think will make much money (because they’re not very good), so I went in hoping to be mildly entertained (like I was in Dead Man Down). But I got more than ...
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My friends Brannon Hancock (Worship Pastor at Xenia Church of the Nazarene) and Paul Dazet (Lead Pastor at Journey Nazarene) got together to discuss Rob Bell’s new book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. I took a page from Clay Morgan (who starts a new podcast every ...
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Remember that story about a handsome young man whose beauty masked an ugly soul? He was cursed, so that his exterior truly represented his interior – he was turned into a monstrous beast. That curse could only be broken when he truly changed, and when that change was observed by ...