We Cannot Teach Our Children Something We Have Not Learned Ourselves

It was a joy to preach last night to the wonderful family at Wellford Baptist Church.  They put on the Deuteronomy 6 Conference focusing on the family.  It was a great time in worship and a great time afterwards just sharing with all the great people there. We talked about the need for family discipleship. The problem for many churches …

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Your Children Know What You Love the Most

I believe children of every age know what it is that their parents love.  Whether it’s somebody or something, our words and our actions declare those things that have our hearts.  They are observant enough to see what it is that wakes us up in the morning and lingers on our minds until we drift to sleep.  As your children …

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The Family

Many people say that one’s family is the most difficult group of people to impact for Christ. Throughout the pages of Scripture, we see a different dynamic as God used family members time and time again to evangelize and disciple other family members. In this last message of our “Between Sundays” series, we focused on ways that you can impact …

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Jonah and the Snowfish

Yesterday morning, Obadiah prayed: “Dear God, thank you for this day.  Thank you for this food.  Thank you that you are always with us.  And please let there be snow today.  Even though we live in Greenwood, and no one ever knows if we really are gonna get snow or not.  Well, I guess you know, but we don’t.  Amen.” …

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Are We Supposed to Fear God?

“This is the command – the statues and ordinances – the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.  Do this so that you may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands …

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Storytellers: “My Portion”

Wednesday evening, area groups are gathering together for United Youth Worship at North Side.  Details here.

I’m honored to be a part of a collective of worship leaders leading that night.  Very, very excited about our time together.  Leading up to it, Ben and I talked about working on a worship song unique for the event.

In my Bible study, I was recently impacted yet again by the portion of the Levites.  As land was being distributed to the tribes of Israel, the priestly Levites were denied the right to land.  Before you think they got gipped, look at what they got:

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