04/15/21 Hasn’t the Lord Gone Before?
READING: Judges 4-6, Luke 10:25-11:13 Over the years of my ministry, the Lord has always proven Himself faithful. Even when I’ve struggled with following…
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9 Reasons Churches Drift from Their Mission
Last year, I wrote a post entitled, “10 Signs of Mission Drift in a Church.” What I learned in response was that readers appreciated…
Read More04/14/21 Failure to Drive Out the Enemy
READING: Judges 1-3, Luke 10:1-24 Multiple times in today’s Old Testament reading do we learn of the Hebrews’ failure to drive the Canaanites out…
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10 “R’s” of Churches Reaching Young Adults Today
All churches need young people, not only because they bring life and energy to the congregation, but also because they will be the future…
Read More04/13/21 “I”
READING: Joshua 22-24, Luke 9:28-62 It’s almost impossible to read the first part of Joshua 24 without seeing and hearing the pronoun “I” echo…
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5 Ways the Enemy Lures Us into Recurrent Sin . . . and What to Do
NOTE: For those who receive my daily post on your phones and didn’t see the picture of my mom’s baptism yesterday, here it is:…
Read More04/12/21 Denying Self
READING: Joshua 16-18, Luke 8:26-56 Sometimes I find it helpful to summarize our Christian walk in simple statements to remember. For example, I define…
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Rejoice!
I’m not writing anything unique today—just celebrating. Because I’ve shared with you, my faithful readers, about my mom’s recent conversion, I wanted you to…
Read More04/11/21 Sunday Quote
“Our sense of God’s absence does not mean that He is so. Though our bodily gloom allows us no feeling of His tender touch,…
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An Encouraging Word for Church Leaders for Today
2 Corinthians 9:15 “Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!” Today, I get to baptize my 79-year old mother whom God saved a couple of weeks ago…
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