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Joseph Saved His Family Family Devotional Last week, kids learned that God had a plan for Joseph’s suffering. The land of Egypt enjoyed seven years of plenty before a famine struck, just as Pharaoh had dreamed. During that time, Joseph gathered all the excess food and stored it in the cities. The famine was severe…
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Another church within our network of churches has this in their description of their mission and vision – and I think it’s the perfect intro for what I want to communicate in this email. In Jeremiah 29:7, God commands His people who have been exiled in Babylon to “work for the peace and prosperity of…
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A Realistic Approach to Video for Church Plant and Church Planters This week I was contacted by a good friend who is starting a new church about how we do video. After spending several hours compiling a list of options and then writing a long email explaining the options, I realized that this is information…
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A “No-So-Much Book Review: Emotional Intelligence 2.0 I was told very early on in ministry that “Leaders are readers”. Since that day I have been trying to be the kind of reader that lives up to the leadership I have been gracefully afforded. Most of the time I read books on theology or leadership. Today…
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C.S. Lewis on Preaching Just read a great article that I ran into while preparing for an upcoming message that I had to post – if for any reason just so I have a place I can come back and read it. As a pastor of one of the churches in Minnesota, I feel that…
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How Great Churches Fall – “Leadership Learnings” Part 2 …a company can indeed look like the picture of health on the outside yet already be in decline, dangerously on the cusp of a huge fall…that’s what makes the process of decline so terrifying; it can sneak up on you, and then – seemingly all of…
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Everyone Is Not A Leader – “Leadership Learnings” Part 1 This past Fall I began a graduate level course on Leadership from a Christian perspective and I thought I’d share some of my favorite leadership learnings that I came across along the way. Today I literally want to share a direct quite from one of…
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Sermon On The Mount – What He Said The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7) is the most important sermon of all time. This is not true just because Jesus was the one who gave it, but this sermon was the foundation that Jesus set for what a life fully submitted to him looks…