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Continue reading →: Life From Death
A Communion Meditation When our kids were little, we looked forward to this time of year, especially carving pumpkins together. One year we created a hilarious scene of family pumpkins where one of the pumpkins looked like it was spitting pumpkin seeds all over the other ones. When we finished…
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Continue reading →: Mini Jesus Everywhere
This is Mini Jesus. A while back, Dakota Fox, our NextGen youth minister, came up with a creative idea for a teaching illustration for our students. He ordered a large bag of “Mini-Jesus” figurines. It proved to be a huge hit but shortly after Mini-Jesus started showing up everywhere: in…
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Continue reading →: Seeking Treasure
COMMUNION MEDITATION: SEEKING THE KINGDOM LIKE A TREASURE One of our favorite things to do on the weekend is go to garage sales. Now, I know some of you are right there with me. You understand the thrill of the hunt. But for my wife, MJ, and me, garage sales…
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Continue reading →: Advent of the King
Seth had always been a curious young man, and no other time during the year piqued his curiosity more than Christmas time. The sounds, the smells, and the lights captured his 8-year-old attention and bred anticipation and wonder. On Christmas Eve, Seth found himself in unfamiliar surroundings. Friends invited him…
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Continue reading →: Importance of Character
I’m reading a book by Lance Witt called Replenish: Leading from a Healthy Soul. In it he discussed Image Management where he says, “The greatest danger, really, isn’t in projecting a false image; there’s a Pharisee inside all of us, and I suspect we’ll struggle with this as long as…
