What a great day at North Side! Jeff threw a bomb on us again this morning as we went through the “Dear God” series. Jesus defined Christianity by a simple phrase: “make disciples.” How much of that actually takes place in our lives? Jesus’ call was not for an institution to do that, but we, …
Jealousy: The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζήλος (zēlos), sometimes “jealousy”, but more often in a positive sense “emulation, ardour, zeal” [9][10] (with a root connoting “to boil, ferment“; or “yeast”). The color green is often associated with jealousy and envy, from which the expressions …
At the beginning of March, I whiteboarded all the major projects that had to be done before picking up Eli. This list included: CD, Honey-Dos, weddings, RELI 101 wrapup, messages, services, etc. I had to map out a plan to get the stuff done, but then I realized something: I can’t get all this done. …
Ah, Monday. The day full of tackling projects and trying to make a difference in the world. Today’s partial agenda: help North Side impact the world when our building’s doors are closed. Many people see the internet as the Devil’s playground. In many ways, it is. While you can waste a lot of time on …
This Easter Sunday we are kicking off a brand new series entitled “30 Days to Live.” The concept comes from a book written by the Shooks, and the graphics came from a campaign that Life Church did a while back. The concept is simple: if you had 30 days to live, what would you do? …
March has been an incredible month for North Side as we have gone through the series, “Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?” Last night in my C-Group, we got real honest about the successes and the failures that we had experienced over the last month reaching out to people who need Jesus. While we …
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41). Hell’s Description Hell is everything that heaven is not. While usually people imagine hell as a blazing inferno filled with devils and pitchforks, the sure reality …
In my C-Group last night, we talked a lot about eternity, and we realized that we have misconceptions about heaven and hell. I thought I would share some of what we talked about last night on heaven and then also talk about hell later this week. We talked about if St. Peter is really at …
My C-Group had a great time last night discussing the weekly topic of “Church: More Than a Building.” We talked about what people wrongly assume is church (building, programs, activities, social club, etc.). We talked about what killed local congregations (selfishness, wrong ways of evaluating progress, apathy, refusal to biblically confront, and biblically unfit leaders). …
I had a conversation about church hopping with a buddy of mine recently. He goes to another church in another town but had recently been discouraged with members from his church leaving to find another church. What hurt him so was all the time and energy and prayers he had poured into this family, and …
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