My Project Title

As I am continuing my week at seminary, I must say that this has been a busy week. After working through how to format my dissertation for a few days, we have now been in class talking about the history of our country’s revivals. At night, I change poopy diapers and try to get as …

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Coming Revival

Yesterday’s quote of the day in class: “When revival comes, will you be the person leading it, or will you be the person needing it?” -Dr. Timothy Beougher Think about it. Deep question. If God was to move mightily in your city, would you be the one who was on your knees praying for it …

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Southeast Christian Church

Being away from North Side was a bit different today. I can’t remember the last time I “went to church” without serving. I showed up at a place. I parked in a visitor’s spot. And I had to go to the help desk for info. Very different, but I learned a ton. We went to …

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“Would You Call Yourself?”

Best line of my week thus far at seminary was from Dr. Chuck Lawless yesterday morning: “If you were God, would you call yourself?” He had just read Eph. 4:1 and told us to think about living a life worthy of our calling. He said that, as ministers, sometimes we have gotten comfortable with the …

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Kentucky Days

The family and I are in Louisville for the next 10 days as I take a class up at seminary.  I am working on another degree through the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth and this is one of the segments I have to be up at school.  We have to do …

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Intentional Relationships

We got to celebrate fathers today at North Side in a fun way.  At the 11:15 Obie, Cory, Cory’s son, Nate, and me started the festivities with some Father’s Day Superlatives.  We couldn’t select any winners for the “Loudest Snoring Dad” award because there were too many people pointing fingers at the fathers in the …

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Practical Service

Continuing on in our series, Waiting on the World to Change, our church studied what it meant to do in the area of “Practical Service” today. When it comes to mission work, I think the church (universal) has always fallen on one of two ends of the spectrum (this is the case in almost everything …

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Having Church in the Doctor’s Office?!

Just the other day, we were at one of our doctor’s visits for Mr. Obadiah and I happenned to see a certain magazine in the waiting room amidst other publications: Under the Reader’s Digest’s cover on the vitamin hoax and above Golf Digest’s cover on fixing your swing, you can see North Side’s publication, The …

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Shake-n-Shine Needs

Shake-n-Shine is coming around the corner!  Below is a message from our Project Love guru, Rick Hendricks.  Read to see how you can help out: Hello: Shake N Shine, our camp for children in Greenwood, will take place July 14-18, again this year at Erskine College, and we need your help. We’re asking C-groups, Sunday …

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Strategic Families

Our world needs some changing, and God intends to change it through the family. The most critical spiritual environment is the one in which you live. As we look at these up and coming generations, we must realize that trained church professionals are not the answer to our children’s spiritual needs. Our children need their …

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