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Here is a really fun story…Captain Flanagan is a "rare bird" says the Wall Street Journal.  His dedication to his job is remarkable.  He says he does what he does because "it’s his job."  I’m sure there are a number of ways to perform work in an exemplary manner–doing things as an act of worship…

I’ve had the priviledge to worship with and share God’s word in chapel at Denver Seminary.  It has been good to see old professors who impacted my life over a decade ago as well as look into the eyes of the current students.  Our Lord is raising up so many passionate and servant-hearted leaders.  Wow!…

Our worship is our witness.  That is clearly seen with Paul and Silas as they worshipped in prison.  (Acts 16) We also looked at the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer and Tony Dungy.  Our worship is unto God but it almost always is in the presence of others because worship is life.  As you look…

When studying history, I have found it helpful to use a symbol that is representative of the subject matter.  Hans Holbein’s picture, "The Ambassadors," is the symbol that helps me summarize what The Renaissance was about. As you look at the picture below there are a number of objects the Holbein chose to represent life…

  We are all renaissance people.  In America, the question is, "Which one?"  First, you have what is known as The Renaissance.  Which is more accurately called, "The Italian or European" Renaissance.  And then there is The Harlem Renaissance which is a product of America. The picture is Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors and is an…

Englewood and Aurora had different worship experences this weekend.  If you were present at either one, God did some amazing things. Would you just take time to share what your experience was?

I just finished Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy.  He led the Colts to a Super Bowl championship in 2007 and in the process became the first African-American coach to earn such a win.  Simply put, Quiet Strength is a spiritual autobiography, as Dungy talks about his faith with natural ease. After this book, I admire…

Here’s a quote by James McClendon Jr., Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary about the importance of jazz. "Yet beneath and behind this so-called popular American music, generated as inevitably as a great city’s powerhouse generates unwanted urban smog, vibrates another music, dinstinctly American, that is all that the blur of popular sound…

Robert Webber said it best, "Worship is a verb."  He points out that Hebrew & Greek do not have a word for worship but only words to describe what we do when we worship.  The meaning of the two primary words are, "to bow down" and "to serve." This means that the majority of our…

I just learned about this cool site for those of you in the Denver area (also available in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina and Washington). It’s scandenver.net (click here) It allows you to listen live or at your leisure–they archive footage for 48 hours and you can listen to specific times if there is an…
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