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Ethics, Morality and Integrity
I had a college student in our new forming ministry ask this question on a facebook group page: Ethics, Morals, and integrity. These three terms mean totally different things but interlink to form a cohesive unit. Each one is extremely relevant to our christian walk. Lets have a discussion on what they mean and how [...]
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Discipline
I’ve always had a negative reaction to the word. It conjures up thoughts of being forced to do something that I don’t want to do or being punished for doing something I shouldn’t have done. I think our western individualistic society only reinforces this view of discipline. But, when I live an undisciplined life, it [...]
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Holy Mutterings
Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a [...]
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New Year’s Week in Georgia
Jacqueline and I packed up the kids on Sunday and headed to her parents house in Athens, Georgia. When I get away it always seems to give me a fresh perspective and God seems to give me clarity about things that are important and those that aren’t. I’ve never been a big fan of New [...]
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Day of Prayer and Fasting
Our launch team decided to fast together today to prepare ourselves for the preview service on Sunday. I spent most of the day at Grace Fellowship Church’s “Great Southwest Prayer Center“. I spent most of that time thanking God for the great team He has brought together and how much I feel that He is [...]
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Can prayer change God’s mind?
I was reading in the book of 2 Kings this morning about Hezekiah. Hezekiah was king of the southern kingdom of Judah around 715 BC, soon after the northern kingdom was taken into exile. He was king during the time Isaiah was prophet in Israel. I was especially moved by what the writer of 2 [...]
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30 Day Experiment
We just launched a 30-day experiment with our congregation to study the Bible daily together and see what God does. I am using the following blog as a place of reflection on our journals. Join us if you like. www.sgi30days.blogspot.com
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NNCC Plenary Session #1
The first Plenary Session was led by Wayne Cordeiro. Wayne’s book “Doing Church as a Team” is one of my favorites. It was a pretty typical first session with encouragement to stay near God and let the Holy Spirit guide everything you do. Not really alot of new or deep information, but very good to [...]
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holes in the soul
A description of Seung-hui Cho, the young man who went on a shooting spree at Va. Tech, keeps bouncing around in my head this morning. One of his professors said, “he was so distant and lonely it was like talking to a hole…as if he wasn’t there most of the time”. It seems that Cho [...]
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Isaiah’s Red Moon
Reading Isaiah this week. Isaiah prophecies about the house of God, the mountain of God, both images of the place where God dwells. The images are rich in this scripture. I decided to read it out loud and it seems to have affected me more than when I carelessly read through scripture at other times. [...]
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