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Listening to the crowd is always easier in the short-term but you’ll pay for it in the end. King Saul was the first king of Israel but not the most memorable (that would belong to his successor David). The reason God ultimately rejected Saul as king is simple: Saul chose to listen to the crowd…

If you’ve questioned whether or not you’re living a mistake, then this one’s for you. Maybe you look around and ask yourself, “how did I end up here?” Perhaps you backed into your career or you temporarily moved to a city and here you are, twenty-five years later. Maybe you got married for the wrong…

Imagine walking into your kitchen and finding a slimy green frog sitting on your counter. At minimum you’d quickly pick up the frog with a paper towel and get it out of your house. At worst you’d freak out and call for backup. Now imagine right after you got rid of that frog, you heard…

On a clear moonlit night you can walk outside, hold your thumb up to the moon and block it out of sight. Does that mean your thumb is physically bigger than the moon? Not even close. It just means from your perspective something small (thumb) has become bigger than something large (moon). In Numbers 13, twelve…

Everyday you make a choice between what is immediate and what is ultimate. How you spend your afternoon, what you do with your next paycheck, what you eat for dinner, all of those are immediate decisions. If you’re not careful, you will spend your life consumed merely with what’s immediate, our eyes never lifting up towards…

Today is my 15th wedding anniversary, and in honor of my beautiful (inside and out) wife Robin and her supernatural ability to put up with me for so long, I want to share a few lessons I’ve learned along the way. Please hear me: we don’t have it all figured out. We have our ups and…

I get why people use labels, but that doesn’t make it right to use them. When we label someone, we dehumanize them and absolve ourselves of the need to show them Christ’s love. In Matthew 9:11, the Pharisees tried to avoid having to love others they weren’t comfortable around by labeling them as “tax collectors”…

When you volunteer at church, it’s so much more than simply filling a slot or helping out on a Sunday. Something supernatural happens when the church begins to serve together. Here’s what the Apostle Paul wrote the early church in the letter to the Ephesians: So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,…

We’ve all had those moments when we wish the earth would open up and swallow us whole: we’ve made a colossal mistake, perhaps one that everyone warned us against but we were sure we could defy the odds. You had your chance, your moment in the sun, and you blew it. For me personally I can’t…

If solving emotional issues was as simple as popping a pill, we all would have been cured years ago. Pills work for some, but usually they mask the symptoms and they don’t deal with the underlying issues. We don’t need another band-aid, we need to go to the very heart of the matter, and that takes us…
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