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Who needs help?
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him,…
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Keep going out
“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.’” (Luke 14:23 NIV84). After 19 years of being the portable church, we closed on…
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Why study theology?
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3 NIV84). Theology. The word finds its origin in the two Greek words: theos and logos. Theos means…
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A chain of only 38 links between me and Jesus
“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received” (1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV). “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word” (John 17:20 ESV). The…
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Are you keeping the four devotions?
“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” (Acts 2:42 ESV). This week Robin and I started visiting different WCC Community Groups. Our plan is to visit all of our groups over the…
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Praying that Irene lives up to her name
“And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not…
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More learnings from my top ten leadership mistakes – Part 2
“There is something else wrong that happens here on earth. It is the kind of mistake rulers make” (Ecclesiates 10:5 NCV). Solomon was right. There is a certain kind of mistake that those in leadership make. With that in mind, I’ve…
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Learnings From My Top Ten Leadership Mistakes – Part 1
“There is something else wrong that happens here on earth. It is the kind of mistake rulers make” (Ecclesiates 10:5-15 NCV). This past Monday our church was honored to host the Innovative Church Community’s monthly peer-learning gathering. Our band led in…
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Why John wrote
“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in…
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25 ways to engage your neighbors with the gospel
“But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor’” (Luke 10:29)? Jesus taught the parable of the Good Samaritan to answer this man’s question, “Who is my neighbor?” We’re not that different from the Pharisee…