When was the last time you failed?
I don’t mean messed up – I mean failed. Genuinely failed. Perhaps even publicly failed. The reality of leadership is that not every initiative is going to work. Not every goal is going to be met. Not every effort is going to produce momentum. ...
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3 Reasons You Absolutely Must Go to Church This Weekend –
There are those Sundays when you wake up with the resurrection on your mind. These are the days that you know – you know – that Jesus is alive, and because He lives, everything is different. You breathe in the truth of His life and the celebration boils inside you. You are ...
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The Gospel Frees You to Be Happy for Others –
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15).
This command is part of a long list of exhortations from Paul found in Romans 12. Contextually, all these statements are built around the theme of unity in the body of Christ, that we must all exercise our ...
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3 Reasons to Stay in a Church That’s Not Cool Enough –
I'm amazed at how deep my own consumerism runs. This is most clearly visible to me at how righteously offended I feel when someone or something doesn’t measure up to my expectations. So when, for example, the internet in my home is running slowly, I immediately look for the ...
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The Gospel Compels an Available Posture –
The word posture is defined like this: “position, condition, or state, as of affairs.”
In a physical sense, your posture is how you generally hold yourself. It’s not a static term, meaning that you always are sitting or standing or bending. All of us do those things a thousand ...
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The Freedom of Not Responding –
We love to respond. No, wait – that’s wrong. We need to respond.
Don’t we?
You know the feeling as well as I do. There is someone who brings something to us – it’s an accusation, it’s a criticism, it’s a rebuke – it’s a whatever. Someone does something or says something or ...
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