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How to Honor Your Mother
Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and I was excited for an emphasis-day on honoring my mother! I decided to preach in a manner that I do not normally prefer. I preached a “How-To” sermon on “4 Ways to Honor Your Mother.” You can listen to the whole sermon here. Honor your mother is part of the…
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Begg on “Laziness”
Most mornings while in the car, I listen to Alistair Begg preaching. Its on the radio at 8:00am on 94.7 FM. Lately he has been preaching from Proverbs concerning issues like friendship, honesty, procrastination and laziness. This morning he was preaching on “Laziness and Procrastination.” It was a great message. You can listen to…
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Everything is NOT awesome
A few months back when the new Lego movie came out, we took our sons to see it. The movie was great. It kept their attention. And we loved it. (My 3 sons are so wildly in to Legos right now!) The theme song to the movie is a very catchy pop song called Everything is Awesome! …
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Resurrection Eggs Video with my son
My wife has been teaching our kids about the Resurrection of Jesus. She uses a dozen Easter eggs to help them learn it. It seems to work really well. Here is a cool video of Noah (3 years old) explaining what each of the eggs mean. Egg 1 = a leaf – the people waved…
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what I took away from T4G
Last week was the biennial Together for the Gospel Conference. As a pastor attending a conference with some 7,000+ other ministry-minded people, I was very encouraged. Here are some of the gems I took away from the conference. The theme this year was “Unashamed.” The emphasis was on evangelism. Thabiti Anyabwile – “wrongly in our…
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“…he made me a priest though…”
Trip Lee’s song “One Sixteen” on his newest album The Good Life is one of the most popular songs to come out of the Reach Records 1-1-6 camp. The song includes K.B. and Andy Mineo. Trip Lee has also written a book called The Good Life. The song has a pretty cool design to it. Each of…
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“young man, are you happy?”
Just the other day I was standing at the gas pump in Fairdale (pictured below) filling up my car when an older gentleman caught me by surprise. Unexpectedly, from the adjacent gas pump, he blurted out “young man, are you happy?” Startled by his voice and volume, it took me a few seconds to process…
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“what will happen to him?”
I recently read a powerful quote! Perhaps we need to reverse the question. The first question that the priest …and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the Good Samaritan … reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will…
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“Sometime in your life, hope that you might…”
I recently began reading K.P. Yohannan’s book No Longer a Slumdog. God has already used this book greatly to stir my soul. The ministry Gospel for Asia is giving the book away for free. You can click here to get the book for free. Chapter one of the book begins with this great quote from Daniel Berrigan: “Sometime in…
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Sledding in the snow
Valeria and I took our children out to play in the snow. Tom Wallace park in Jefferson Memorial Forest (The lake in the background was frozen over. We were able to walk out on it.) located right here in Fairdale is an awesome place to go sledding. As these videos show, They loved it! …