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Relationships Trump Everything — Part 2

Did you miss the first part to this? Click here and catch up. No one wants to be lonely. It hurts. It’s depressing. It just plain stinks! So, in order to avoid loneliness a lot of people have a sort of ‘anything goes’ mentality. As long as you get yourself a group of friends, that’s […]

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Relationships Trump Everything

One of the things our society honors pretty much across the board is a bride on her wedding day. Think about it, that’s her day! The day she’s waited for, prepared for and dreamt about her whole life. And though it only lasts a few hours the memory of that day can last a lifetime. […]

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Accessory to Murder

The other day I was watching the news when one of the news commentators talked about an accessory to murder. My daughter overheard and wanted to know what that was. “Someone who is present as a murder goes down, or someone who helps in someway (i.e. driving the getaway car for a bank robbery).” “But […]

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Sunday Evening Mind Dump

Churches are a little like the health and fitness center around January–Lots of extra people show up who are determined to give weights and cardio a try and at church to give God a try. Many of them will fade off after a week or two. I wanted this year to be different so today […]

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The Odd Couple

Every pastor has his top 5 or so questions he gets over and over and over again–questions like: How can I know God’s will for my life? Can I lose my salvation? Can a Christian be possessed by demons? Did I commit the  unpardonable sin? Can you commit suicide and still go to heaven? Number […]

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From the Perspective of the Preacher’s Wife

Christmas Break is Over! January 2nd, 2011 Family time is always refreshing, especially after the busy Christmas season that intensely hits a pastor’s family.  Thank you, Southbrook, for allowing us to take a week to rejuvenate and reconnect as a family. So what did we do?  We took the last flight out of Charlotte (before […]

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Sunday Evening Mind Dump

What a week! And what a year! 2010 can best be summed up for me by saying, “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times,” but even the worst of times were really, really good for Southbrook Church and our future of marking the body, community and world for Jesus! The […]

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Blog Break

Thanks for the break gang! I will be back and blogging after the first!

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White Christmas

As for a “white Christmas” it may have come a day late! But Gang, we are still going to have our combined service (all Weddington and Monroe) at 11:00am at the Weddington campus. Drive Safely!

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Unrideable — Part 2

If you missed the first part of this, click here for it. So you see that some times conditions are so messed up you have to cut your loses and make sure things are in better shape before relaunching. This happens in churches all the time but instead of unrideable, they become Ungrowable Unloving Ununified […]

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