I recently read Top Ten Sources of Discouragement of Pastors and Church Staff by Thom Rainer.  While I can identify with many of the sources of discouragement on this list, I wanted to focus this morning on the “Top 10 Things That Make This Pastor Smile.” I love when someone honors my wife and kids.  There is […]

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There are a lot of myths around the first American Thanksgiving in 1621, but one thing is for sure. The Pilgrims were lucky to be alive, and they knew it. “Eleven months earlier the Pilgrims had arrived at the tip of Cape Cod, fearful and uninformed,” says Nathaniel Philbrick in his history Mayflower. “By all […]

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] posted a news story on Facebook the other day that had a Scientology angle to it. It wasn’t too long before we (yes, myself included)…

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I just finished the favorite book of the year—and it hasn’t even been released yet. Reading Runaway Radical by Amy Hollingsworth and her son Jonathan was like looking in a…

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So, I’m sitting here this morning in a restaurant waiting for my next appointment.  I’m reflecting on the incredible day at Northpark that we had yesterday for which I am extremely grateful.  While celebrating the wins, I’m praying for the countless requests that were given to me yesterday, praying over the families in crisis that […]

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I promised to come back and focus on the scriptural reasons why I reject eternal conscious torment (ETC), which is the idea that those who die…

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