Our Southern Kent campus is beginning a weekly prayer time next week. The elders, who will be leading the prayer time, are going to lead the congregation through a corporate praying of the Lord’s Prayer. At their request, I put together a phrase by phrase breakdown of how to pray the Lord’s prayer [...]
With less than 48 hours left in New Orleans, I’ve been reflecting on all that I’ve seen and experienced this summer. I’m not even sure I have the words to describe the devastation this city has experienced. We started working on the home of Matt yesterday and I spoke with him tonight. He told me [...]
Just this morning, I got a call from a pastor friend of mine who is caught in the midst of church politics. There is a rift between his local church and the denomination. One of the trustees of the church threatened to quit. And he is caught in the middle of having [...]
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In preparing for this devotional, I did a search for “one another†in the Bible. That phrase occurs in 72 different verses in the Bible, 56 of which are in the New Testament! Consider a handful of those verses (don’t worry, I won’t list all 72 of them!) and what they mean for [...]
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A couple of weeks ago on Smallville, Lex and Lana were hosting a party to celebrate their engagement. During the party, Lex stands up to toast Lana and says, “I know some of you never thought you’d see the day when I settle down. Well, this is far from settling.†He goes [...]
{Context: Paul is aboard a ship that is caught in the midst of a terrible storm that is threatening to sink the boat.}
After the men had gone a lone time without food, Paul stood up before them and said, “Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have [...]
