Father

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Father

This is an old post that I read at the YWAM DTS where I was teaching this past week.

The word “father”, for some stirs warm feelings of fondness, and comforting strength, while for others it stirs loathing, or fear.  Read more…

A Saturday kind of Season

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A Saturday kind of Season

Yesterday we celebrated something which, at the time of the actual event, was not celebrated but mourned.  The death of Jesus was, to most, a shocking and devastating end to a soaring hope.   Read more…

The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 4)

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The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 4)

Because we see everything that we see, we assume that everything we see is all that there is to see. Jesus did not minister to only a few blind people. Read more…

The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 3)

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The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 3)

Let’s come from a different angle to continue our efforts to understand the problem that Jesus came to solve. I have made much of the idea that we formulate our solutions based on our definition of a problem. Read more…

The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 2)

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The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 2)

“The thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, but I came that you might all behave really really well until I come back”

Not Jesus

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What Kind of God Makes All Things New by Dying?

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What Kind of God Makes All Things New by Dying?

Right outside the Old City of Jerusalem, about two blocks away from a bustling marketplace is a tomb.  No one is in it.
The Eyes of Our Hearts

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The Eyes of Our Hearts

The gas cap sat on the top of the pump 35 miles behind us. It was a strange and very unusual oversight. But it had been a strange and unusual several days. Read more…

Good Grief

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Good Grief

“I can fix this….” My mind insisted one more time. And when I say insisted, I mean high volume, high intensity. You see, I have fixed things my whole life. And I am pretty good at it. Read more…

I shall know fully, even as I am fully known

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I shall know fully, even as I am fully known

“You’re the only one who ever knew me at all….”

I can still hear the haunting piano, as Phil Collins unique voice sings this line, resolving the verse from the 80′s hit, “Against all Odds”, from the movie of the same name.  This line has always stuck in my soul, often as if the single line is on repeat in my mind. Read more…

If you Gather, He will Come.

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If you Gather, He will Come.

At the risk of sounding like a certain corny baseball movie, ten years ago the Lord gave me a picture of what HE wanted to do for people. This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, they will be coming from around the country

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