The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be the Devil’s Playground

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 here and get into all …

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30 Days to Live: Be at Peace With God

Today was a special day at North Side!  Today’s initiative with 30 Days to Live: “Be at Peace with God.” Since I was preaching today, I was excited and upset at our band this morning.  I was excited because they were awesome and they led us in worship.  I was upset because they are going to cause me to lose …

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“King of Kings” – Sneak Listen

“KING OF KINGS” Leading up to Tuesday’s release of “Coming Home,” I wanted to post a few early mixes of some of the songs.  This first one is a new song called “King of Kings.”  Not the final mix but close.  This song is my attempt to worship the matchless majesty of Jesus. Take a listen below and leave a …

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Travel Dates for Eli

The above pictures are new ones we received of our son, Eli.  A gracious woman who was in Addis Ababa last week picking up her son snapped some pictures of Eli and sent them our way.  He has grown so much from those last pictures.  It is so great to see him grow in size, while he is still an …

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Worship Team Spring Cleaning

As worship team’s strive to lead with excellence, oftentimes, it is a good thing to make sure you have a spring cleaning.  Update, plan, organize, and remind.  So this week’s training is all about updating your information in Planning Center, our online scheduling database. Watch this video for the updated tutorial: Volunteer Training from Planning Center on Vimeo. Do your …

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Sermon Prep (I Need Your Prayers & Help)

I’m filling in for Jeff on Sunday.  It’s always an exciting thing for me to preach, but it’s always a humbling thing to fill the pulpit for someone I respect so much.  I don’t ever want to go about preaching God’s Word in a careless way. I will be preaching the 2nd week in the “30 Days to Live” series …

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“All the Single Ladies”

I got to know Carlos Whittaker via a worship leading network a few months ago.  He is a worship leader for North Point churches, and is about to move out to Chicago to help with the Soul City Church plant.  His first major release on Integrity Music is coming out in the next few days. I love his heart, his …

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30 Days to Live: Live Passionately

What a fantastic Easter Sunday morning at North Side!  Having 3 full services of energetic worshipers is always an exciting way to start a day.  We started a new series called “30 Days to Live.”  We focused on how would we live if we only knew we had one month to live.  What would you do?  How would you change? …

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Beware of the Easter Bunny

I’ve received a lot of questions this week about Easter.  Unfortunately, most questions have not been around the cross, the empty tomb, or all of history being changed in one moment. No, most of my conversations have been around the Easter bunny.  I don’t know why, but I have been asked what I think about the Easter bunny, pastel clothing, …

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Prayer for Easter Sunday

Easter is this Sunday.  Hopefully you have been thinking upon the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus a bunch.  I pray you get overwhelmed with it yet again. But many people haven’t experienced the life that can be found in Jesus, and many of those people will go to your church this Sunday since it’s Easter.  So how can you …

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