What Did God Teach You Through “Neighborhood?”

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 …

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2 Evangelism Extremes

Our C-Group had a great conversation about intentionality concerning sharing our faith last night.  Amanda and I continued to talk about it last night.  I thought I would share with you 2 evangelistic extremes that may not be the best models: In college, I saw two extremes of the outreach.  The first extreme was the …

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Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?

This Sunday, we are starting a brand new series at North Side called “Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?”  The heart of this new series is a call for personal evangelism. We want our people to live the lifestyle of a missionary in their daily lives. Specifically, we want our people to be attentive …

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What Eli Has Already Taught His Dad

Eli is still weeks away from coming home, yet he has already taught me, his father, so much.  If you didn’t get to catch his story, you can do so here.  The short version is God has called Amanda and I to adopt an orphan from Ethiopia who has some special needs.  Due to severe …

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Does God Hate Haiti?

If you are like me, the pictures on the news are still too much to bear.  With questions abounding and people making statements concerning God’s judgment or God’s absence, I wanted to address some of those comments.  As soon as I wanted to, I read Southern Seminary’s president, Dr. Al Mohler’s response, and I can’t …

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Help for Haiti

Help for Haiti All of us have been devastated over the recent days with the images that have come across our screens.  The chaos present in Haiti is overwhelming.  As the church, we are called to meet those needs. There are many great organizations for you to give to in order to help, and we …

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CARE for AIDS

You need to make plans to come out to North Side’s Chapel tonight @ 6pm.  Cornel and Duncan, friends of North Side mission teams, will be joining us all the way from Nairobi, Kenya to share a special message. Cornel Onyango and Duncan Kimani, African Co-Directors of CARE for AIDS, have traveled from Nairobi Kenya …

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A Less-Than-Ideal Home

Today, we concluded the worship portion of the “Legacy” series.  Wow, God has done so much among us during this month of May.  I have heard so much positive words about what is going on in homes as a result of this series – praise God! I think my favorite portion of each week was …

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Chapter 14: The World (Freshman 15 Snippet)

Here’s a snippet from Chapter 14: The World: I normally have answers for people when asked a question.  At that moment, I was speechless.  How do you begin to describe the one who has flipped your life upside down?  How do you express the type of love displayed at the cross to someone who has …

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Chapter 8: The Outreach (Freshman 15 Snippet)

Here’s a snippet from Chapter 8: The Outreach: That episode in college made me realize something: casual Christianity causes casualties.  When we are casual about our Christianity, when we are apathetic about others’ spiritual stages, that indifference causes casualties.  If you are going to believe the Bible and hold that there is no way to …

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