I took my last sip of coffee while sitting at Hans and Harry Bakery as I read the final page of Primal by Mark Batterson . I was wondering if Mark’s latest book could be as good as his first and the answer is a resounding yes. Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National [...]
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My approach to life lately has been is that it is scary fun. It came to me as I was on the Tower of Terror ride at California Adventure across from Disneyland. The ride is a Twilight Zone themed elevator ride with unexpected drops and lifts. At the end I had experienced “scary fun”. We live in [...]
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There’s a big difference between waiting for something to happen and making something happen. Learning to know when to wait and when to act is a lesson that needs to be learned early in life. God sometimes has us in a waiting mode while He gives us further instructions. Trying to start something when God [...]
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I don’t win all the things I attempt to do in life, even when I think what I want to accomplish is important. Even in ministry, there are setbacks. Setbacks can discourage us from future pursuits if we let them. It is easy to let go of a dream because hardwork brought progress to a crawl or [...]
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Just finished planning our new message series, Passion, with John Gordy, our Spanish langauge pastor. I have a new favorite verse. Habbakuk 2:2,3 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing [...]
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I’m doing individual staff meetings next week with my team and I’m giving them permission to dream. I’m asking each one to tell me where they see themselves in one year. Then we will sit down and see if we can create a blueprint to make it happen. It should be exciting to see what [...]
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I just finished a two-part message series on receiving God’s favor. It is interesting to see just how many people received God’s favor in the Bible- Noah, Moses, Samuel, Nehemiah, Mary…the list goes on. To be favored by God is to have more than just a good day- it is to have a good month [...]
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Success is often a matter of effort. I firmly believe that most of us have some idea of what we should be doing with our lives…be it full-time ministry, a career, school, etc. What I have noticed is that not as many people give the amount of effort in these areas that is necessary for [...]
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As I approached turning 50 last year, I began dreaming about what I would like to accomplish in the years ahead. This has led me to pray two new prayers: 1. In the next 20 years may I accomplish more than I have in the past 30 years. This means that God is going to [...]
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Here’s the main thrust from last week’s message from the Rebel With A Cause series: Fulfillment comes in who you can be, not what you can do. Whenever we try to find fulfillment in what we can do (accomplishments), it leaves us empty. We can never accomplish enough to find a place of lasting fulfillment. [...]
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