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Time with my closest friends. All 90 of them.
I spent this weekend with about 90 of the most incredible men around at my church’s men’s retreat. It was a time for guys to do guy stuff like play sports, compete in all sorts of events, watch the Phillies beat the Cardinals and laugh way more than we should. Yep, we had a wonderful time!
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Authenticity. Being real.
Authenticity. Being real. It’s easy to understand what this is, but it’s real hard to live out, isn’t it?? As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend. Proverbs 27:17 (NET)
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A Weekend of Commitment
This weekend we did baptisms at my church, and it was a thrill to see 35 people (most of them adults!) take a very public step to show their love for Christ.
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Unity in an Anglican Church
This past weekend, my family & I got to visit my daughter. She’s a student at Gordon College, a Christian liberal arts college above Boston, MA. As we spoke about where we would worship on Sunday, we decided to go to Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church…something very different than the church that I pastor & that my kids grew up in.
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This do in remembrance of me
We did communion this weekend at my church, and it got me thinking about Jesus’ death & sacrifice and how we remember this. As with anything that we do regularly, communion can be taken lightly and it can become something we do without much thought. Because we’re so familiar with communion, it becomes so easy to allow it to become a mindless exercise, doesn’t it?
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Generosity
Jesus said, “If you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of My followers, you will surely be rewarded.” Matthew 10: 42 Generosity is supposed to be a standard characteristic of Christ-followers. We’re supposed to be generous to others because God’s been so generous to us… • in saving us • forgiving us • loving us • being patient with us
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Getting Out the Vote
As a pastor, I’ve been spending more time studying & thinking about prayer recently because my church is doing a study on prayer. As part of this study, I came across the following (funny!) story that Jesus uses to teach about prayer:
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LEADERSHIP
So much is said about it, but just what is Godly leadership? I’ve been spending time this summer working through the book of Nehemiah, and it’s a book full of God’s time-tested truths on what it takes to be a godly leader.
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Freedom
Freedom is a wonderful American privilege, isn’t it? It allows us to choose what we say, what we do, who we vote for, who we marry. Freedom is awesome. And as wonderful as freedom in America is, our freedom in Christ is even better!