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How Not To Miss Your Calling
I’m a firm believer that every human has a purpose from the heart of God. While my thoughts in this post will center upon Christians and their assignments from the ...
Read More Leaving the Church of Politics For Good
On this 4th of July I submit to you that American politics has now become the fastest growing religion in the Republic. It has two denominations, Church of the Left ...
Read More 7 Ways To Prepare Yourself For Revival
These days it seems that so many Christians from various backgrounds and cultures are all sensing the same thing: the beginnings of true revival are occurring. It is common for ...
Read More Your Cage Is Unlocked
Ever since Landon was a baby, I have asked the Lord to make my son a better man than his father. It has been a simple, consistent prayer of mine ...
Read More 4 Places In Our Valleys
One of my desires in communicating bible truths is that I might be able to help others in their personal journeys with the King. Over the last twenty-three years, I ...
Read More Finishing Up The Year
It has been an amazing 2017! God has been so gracious, and so good, and so glorious to me in the past year. After a very demanding 2016, this past ...
Read More Pushing Back Against Loneliness
Perhaps one of the most understated or undervalued aspects of salvation is the aspect of God’s companionship. It is ironic because the core of being one with God through faith ...
Read More OneRace Event at New Bridge Church
Mark your calendars for Friday evening 10/27/17 for the next OneRace gathering. We will meet at the church where I serve, New Bridge Church. We will begin at 7:30 (come ...
Read More Don’t Ride A Horse To Church
Did you watch the Lone Ranger growing up? That pillar of black and white television hit the screen in 1949 and kept streaming out ample heroic goodness for 220 more ...
Read More A Little Break
This week will have me taking a break from writing here in the blog. I need a little refreshing of the waters, so I plan to take a short hiatus ...
Read More Why The Church Remains Divided
Unless anyone desires to protest or prove otherwise, I am assuming we all agree that the Church is divided. The embarrassing walls between us are many: racial classifications, generational preferences, ...
Read More A Spontaneous Moment of Racial Unity
For several weeks leading up to Sunday, August 13, 2017, I had planned to begin a new sermon series on unity in the Church. My first message was to be ...
Read More Your Gift-Muscle
You may not have noticed, but we are subtly walking through a blog mini-series over the last four posts (including today’s). God honors the intentional communication of what His word ...
Read More Being Young: Promises & Pitfalls
Over the last two years, an awareness that I am no longer the young kid has found me. I began full-time vocational ministry twenty years ago at age twenty-seven. Our ...
Read More An Encouragement Burger
Finishing up this three-installment blog series today, I want to ask you a very simple question: do you believe in your heart that God is for you, that He wants ...
Read More When God Takes His Time
In my last post, I began to unpack an explanation of why your breakthrough sometimes lingers longer than we desire. If you did not read it, please take a few ...
Read More Honest Thoughts On Growing Pains
“Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” ...
Read More The Breakup Letter I Should Have Written Sooner
September 20, 2005 Dearest Religion, It has been a long journey together, but today I need to let you know that I have finally decided to leave you for good. ...
Read More You & Holy Spirit
If someone asked you if you would want to spend today with Jesus walking right by your side, physically present with you, able to be seen, heard and touched, you ...
Read More Two Seasons For Growth – Part 2
I began first grade in 1975 in Doraville, GA. My family lived in an apartment complex called Plymouth Colony and, though we had next to nothing, I remember that year ...
Read More Joy Continues On (Final Thoughts on Joy)
Weary of your struggles or suffering? You cannot wish it away or ignore it into oblivion. When pain comes it can do a number on us in a short time. When ...
Read More Finding The Changing Room
“…the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…” Isaiah 61:3 What a drudgery life can be when our wardrobe is nothing other than cloaks woven with the threads of ...
Read More Check Back Next Week…
Thanks to those of you who have contacted me, asking about the next part of the blogged testimony which I have been sharing lately. I really want to finish the ...
Read More Part Two: Surpised By A Joy-Ambush
Because I have been asked to share my story as it pertains to the migration from Baptist cessationist to one who believes in the ongoing availability of the gifts of ...
Read More Woman To Woman – Amy Lyle on Mothering
Four moms have influenced me during my life: the mom who gave birth to me and raised me until the age of nine. The mom who married my dad when ...
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