Earlier this week I talked about the importance of all emotions and how the movie Inside Out reveals this importance. But do you ever try to distance yourself from the world of emotions? This sometimes happens when emotions become overwhelming—people would rather not deal with them at all. For some men, they were raised to believe […]
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This was our third “At the Movies” Sunday! We took a look at Pixar’s Inside Out and the power emotions have in our lives. For anyone who hasn’t seen this movie, it’s an animated story about the emotions (portrayed as characters) that live inside of a young girl named Riley—Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. […]
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As we continued our “At the Movies” series this weekend, we examined the movie Lion. This movie is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, a young boy born in an impoverished village in India. Saroo was tragically displaced from his family as a young boy while working with his brother. After surviving alone […]
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Earlier this week I examined Barnum’s life in The Greatest Showman. Like all of us, his life is a combination of success and failure. He is driven by dreams and aspirations, but is at the same time driven by the need to “measure up.” His father-in-law (the same man who mistreats him when he’s child), […]
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As we read the Bible, we see that Jesus communicated mostly through stories, referred to as parables. We just started our “At the Movies” series and are going to do something similar by examining the biblical truths found in movies. We highlighted The Greatest Showman this past Sunday! What it taught us is that life […]
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(Jonah 1:1)The word of the LORD came to Jonah: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” Nineveh was the most powerful city on earth at this time. A sight to behold! It was an awesome city—but it was also an awful city. To […]
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Years ago when reading the Old Testament I would get a little discouraged with all the law requirements—how in the world could people remember all that stuff let alone obey it?! Some of you are thinking, “Are you serious, Pastor Rob? Who can’t remember 10 simple commandments?” Firstly, there weren’t just ’10 simple commandments’ there […]
READ MOREI was listening to one of my favorite preachers the other day when he uncharacteristically went off on a rant about another pastor. This “other” pastor’s identity wasn’t very cryptically kept. In fact, you’d have to have been living the last decade under the proverbial rock to not have figured it out in less time […]
READ MORE· At last the long wait is over and our new worship director, Will Retherford has arrived for good! In fact, worship was absolutely off the hook today! And the time of prayer and brokenness for families and individuals during communion was what it’s all about. We’re named IMPACT, but we realize the best way […]
READ MOREToday is the day to stand firm for the institution of marriage in the state of North Carolina by voting FOR the marriage amendment that adds protection for this precious union into our state constitution. In today’s post I want to make a final argument before we all head for the polls. Consider how often […]
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