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Well, not actually considering. In fact I am already sold on the idea of small groups. I believe very strongly that true spiritual growth comes from life experiences with people. I believe in small groups because I believe we never truly open up to a large group of people but we may in a small [...]

To clear up confusion, I am not referring to the last several weeks of nonexistent blogging. In fact I am referring to how I am trying to remedy that in the future. I have now been blogging for a little more than a year and a half and I have come to the conclusion that [...]

I have come to pray a prayer every morning. Sometimes out loud and sometimes it’s just floating around in the back of my mind. God, what is my part in all of this? It isn’t always a question of uncertainty. In fact it is usually a calibration or an alignment of sorts. It’s the question [...]

Have you ever seen two pastors who are equally gifted and talented. Two pastors who love Christ and his church just as much as the other. Two pastors who have devoted there lives to God’s work and yet have found themselves with very different levels of success. One church is thriving while the other struggles [...]

This has been the theme God has been speaking to me over the past few months. In a discussion with Kevin today about blogging he shared that he was narrowing down his categories. It got me thinking about this blog and I relalized that part of my problem with regular and consistent blogging is not [...]

As I look back over the past year I am becoming convinced ever more of something that I have always known. God builds his church…not people. People can do everything right through strategies and systems and accomplish nothing. Other people can do everything wrong according to the “status quot” and yet flourish.
The reason is very [...]

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you just have so much stuff to write that you don’t know where to start. I am in that place write now. I have been taking so much time off from blogging that I am clogged. With that in mind I am not going to write about [...]

I know I haven’t been writing and I keep saying that I am going to get back to it but this isn’t the week it is going to happen. I will be taking the week off from all of this and most church stuff. This will carry on right through Monday morning of next week. [...]

I haven’t written one of these in a long time but now that I mention it I haven’t been writing that much at all. This is mostly becuase there is just so much going on and I haven’t had time to write now have I had any idea which things to write about. Anyway here [...]