Pastor, Church Communications Guy, Church Website Designer & Blogger
Sometimes someone comes to Grace Hills from a larger church because they're "looking for something smaller." My reply is always the same. "You're welcome here, but I hope we let you down." It's not that we've set out to be a "big" church or a megachurch. But we also haven't set out on this journey merely to …
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Thirteen years ago, I read The Purpose-Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission for the first time. The first chapter contains the story of how Rick and Kay Warren packed up their belongings and headed to a community to which God had called them to plant Saddleback Church. They arrived …
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It's that time of year again, when Kent Shaffer releases his list of top 100 200 church blogs. As Kent explains, this is a very tough list to compile because there are so many different kinds of blogs across the "church blogs" spectrum. I'm a "church" blogger, but also a tech, design, media, and ministry …
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When I was a fairly young believer, my father-in-law (who was also my Pastor) led us in a study of Gary Smalley and John Trent's The Gift Of The Blessing. We talked then about how frivolously we throw around the words "blessed" and "blessing." We even follow up a sneeze with "Bless you."
But in Scripture, …
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This was my final message from the book of numbers in our Journey Through the Word Series. No notes are available, just the audio above. …
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Series: Journey Through the Word - The Book of Numbers
Based on numbers 32
ONE GREAT TRUTH: The greatest enemy to God's best is the world's best without God. …
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Series: Journey Through the Word - The Book of Numbers
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From the Series Journey Through the Word: The Book of Numbers
Based on Numbers 26-27
ONE GREAT TRUTH: God is looking for spirit-led, shepherd-leaders to lead each new generation boldly forward. …
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Danny Kirk, Pastor of Lindsay Lane Baptist Church in Florissant, Missouri needed a graphic to represent his upcoming sermon series based on the seven letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Revelation. I started with an image of a fragment of ancient Greek architecture, overlaid it with a transparent …
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In April of 2007, I began preaching through the entire Bible, book-by-book. Yes, I am committed to speaking God's truth in a culturally relevant way, but I also think God knew what He was doing as He inspired His Word, so we're hearing all the subjects God speaks about, one by one. Numbers is presenting one of …
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I'm madly in love with Angie Cox and my two kids. And I'm loved and forgiven by an infinitely gracious God! I'm a Pastor, Church Planter, Editor, and Community Facilitator.
