One of the things I have learned in the past 20 years is when I encounter a problem. A good book usually helps me understand or point me in the right direction. I like reading books in the summer because It makes me feel better about lying lazily in the summer sun. Where I live […]
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Until 5 years ago I had heard of Awana but knew very little about them. Over the past few years that has changed I have had the privilege of meeting many of the Awana staff and team. Every time I leave a meeting with them I am blown away by their passion to reach kids
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One of the reasons I blog here is to be to others what I wish someone was to me when I started. One of the things that would have helped me when I started was knowing where to start. So this post is sort of beginners toolbox for anyone who is new, just starting or
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C. S. Lewis in “The World’s Last Night” said: “For my own part I hate and distrust reactions not only in religion but in everything. Luther surely spoke very good sense when he compared humanity to a drunkard who, after falling off his horse on the right, falls off it next time on the left.”
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One of the questions I get asked often and find myself asking myself as I get older is “What would I do different if I could go back in time and tell young Sam something. I started doing ministry right out of bible college I went to four years of bible college and was thrown
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“Creativity is not coming up with new things but finding new ways to communicate old things” Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. The older I get and the longer I do ministry the more I realize that creativity
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The Journey toward knowing your calling. Are you called? Do you have a feeling of helplessness? Do you have a sense of willingness? Do you have a sense of significant-ness? Jim Burns started writing phrases that he wrote when he realized that he wasn’t going to be around forever. Life has pain – You choose the
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Brady Boyd – God is our peace. You can’t be out 3 nights a week or work more than 50 hours a week. Most of our problems in our church and in our churches is we are moving to fast for to long. Marriages fail because they stopped having unhurried conversations. We have to be
Albert Tate – God is enough Jonah – God was enough but not really – Jonah stopped and listened and moved but failed to trust – God was something but not enough. God said go. So he went but not to where he was called to go. Jonah saying me overboard is not about saving
Michelle Anthony – Spiritually parenting families Our role becomes not to do ministry programs for families but to do redemptive ministry to with, and through families. 6 dysfunctional parenting styles 1. double minded 2. I can’t say no 3. Driver 4. micro managing 5. Criticizer 6. Absentee We have to pursue Christ we get abundant
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