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Sunday Evening Mind Dump

This mind dump is going to be just that—a backing up of the dump-truck (beep, beep, beep) and a depositing of what’s on my mind and heart.   In no particular order:   Thrilled to preach live at Southbrook Monroe today! Those people are series about reaching that city for Jesus! Got messed up with […]

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She’s One “LUCKY” Little Girl

Sometimes on Fridays I will spend the morning working at Barnes and Nobles. And now that the kids are out of school they will most often accompany me. They love it. For the most part they read and when they get bored they might break out their gameboys.   Did you catch that? They start […]

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Picture Perfect

Almost daily my little girl, Juliana, will bring me pictures that she’s drawn. They are usually of dogs or horses but no matter what they are, they somehow manage to lead back to how much she loves me.   I know. Tough to see the connection.   And when she first started doing this—around age […]

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The Closet

Such a simple idea. Such a tremendous outreach. Thank You! To all those who reached out to the entire city of Monroe with more than 6,000 items of clothing. All for FREE! Jesus said Matthew 25:31–40,  31 “But when the Son of Mand]’>[d] comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he […]

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The Closet

Just a quick note to tell you all to head on out to our Monroe Campus today. They are having an outreach event for the community in which more than 5,000 items of clothing are being given away to needy folks. Yes, “given” away. As in free! We would love to have as many Brookies” […]

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Ritualistic Defenders

Jesus is a people person. No kidding, huh? But even this people person encountered some folks who just couldn’t be helped. I’m referring to the religious leaders of His time. And isn’t it bizarre that the most spiritual person who ever walked this planet would find His greatest adversaries among those who also claim to be ‘spiritual?’   I […]

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Knowing Too Much – Final

Ok, I realize I’ve gotten about three series all discombobulated but my goal of wrapping all of them up this week (albeit, out of order) seems within my grasp! And this one is actually the easiest of them all. I may come back to the list I originally posted here, but for now, it’s that […]

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Heart Disease – Part 2

The wrap up here couldn’t be simpler.   In the last couple decades nutritionists have taught us the principle of garbage in = garbage performance. In other words, if we eat junk food, our performance will be pretty junky. Not sure why it took them so long to figure this Einsteinion principle out but, hey, […]

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The No-Sign Sign — Part 2

This is a wrap up of a post I started over a week and a half ago. So you will definitely need to click here to get yourself up to speed.   Why do you think it was that the religious leaders of Jesus day kept asking for Jesus to jump through hoops (“They kept […]

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You Know too Much.

A pastor friend of mine shared with me of a difficult time he just had at the church he leads. Turns out there was a small group of folks who thought the church should move in another direction (by ‘another’ they meant ‘Their’ direction). This isn’t exactly rare (sad to say) but no matter how common […]

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