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Under the Big Top

It wasn’t so long ago that we could only fill this thing once. Now, as Easter approaches we are having TWO SERVICES (9:00 and 11:00) under the BIG 1200 seat tent!   Children will take over the main worship center COMPLETELY and have it ENTIRELY to themselves…although we might let you in to use the […]

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What An Incredible Day @ Southbrook!!!

Bottom line, I will NEVER forget today. Today is why we do church in the first place. Today we saw 100 people profess the magnificent name of Jesus Christ before hundreds and hundreds of their brothers and sisters in Christ! The hill was PACKED and we ran out of food after selling more than 500 […]

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Dueling Visions

It sounds like an old western, but I assure you, it’s more like a modern day slasher film. My last post generated a little bit of heated discussion (very little — heated. A lot of good, actually) and whenever that happens I take an honest second look at my post and see of there may […]

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Strings Attached

My Son, Nathan is into magic. One of his favorites is to tell me he is going to give me a dollar or maybe five dollars. However, when I reach for it he hits the button on a little gadget he has that causes the string (fastened to the money) to slip from my archaically […]

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Oops, Do WE Know You’re Getting Baptized?

The Key word here is, WE. There seem to be A LOT of people indicating they are going to be baptized this weekend who are not signed up. First of all let me say that THAT’S COOL, everyone is welcome, even people who decide that day! And yes, that’s happened A LOT. But to facilitate things […]

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Baptism…Why Wait? {Reloaded}

Here is a reposting of the “Baptism…Why Wait” post. Why am I reposting this? Because the links were not active and explanations not that great…now they are! By the way. At the confrence we went to last week at, http://www.newspring.cc/ they just had a baptism celebration. The key word, by the way, is, ‘celebration.’ They baptized […]

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There’s Gotta Be An Easier Way!

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein   This is just a test to see if there is ANY EASIER WAY to post in WordPress (the nice looking but incredibly ‘geeky’ blogging platform).

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Bulletproof: The Great Cover Up

I love to read. What does this have to do with the great cover up? Patience young grasshoppers! As I was saying, I love to read. But I wish the obsession with books stopped right there. The truth is that it goes WAAAAAAY deeper than that. I actually love my books. I protect them, baby […]

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Let’s ‘Debrief’ Together

Let’s face it. Some conferences are awesome, motivating, helpful, etc. others just end up being a waste of everyone’s time. Newspring was a great experience for out small group. In fact, the only regret I have in that last statement was that I had to type the word, ‘small.’ I wish we would have brought […]

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24

There’s a number we hear alot these days. But in this case it represents the number of people we took to the Newspring, “Unleash” conference. These people got to see a church doing a lot of the same things that we are only a couple of years down the road. Newspring was running the same […]

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