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We’ve been so excited (and tired) the last couple of days. By the time we finally hit the sack here on Friday night, we’d been up over 30 hours. I didn’t sleep much at all on the planes – really…
Thanks to everyone who helped make our trip to Spain possible! We’re boarding in Charlotte, heading to Frankfurt first. Off goes the cellphone for 10 days! Stay tuned here and at our team blog at northstarspain.wordpress.com.
There might be some who would mock me for attempting to review Francis Collin’s book The Language of God. After all, he’s a well-known scientist and headed up the government-backed Human Genome Project which mapped human DNA. I’m a pastor.…
The March/April issue of Outreach Magazine listed six insights from interviews with Christians in America during 2010 (conducted by the Barna Group): The Christian church is becoming less theologically literate. Christians are becoming more ingrown and less outreach-oriented. Growing numbers…
Stephen Furtick is pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte. He’s a dynamic communicator, and his church has seen wonderful numerical and spiritual growth. It was planted in 2006, and within a year, it was running over 1000. At last report,…
Glad we’re still here… I think I laughed at my Foursquare screen on Sunday morning. (see pic at right) With Harold Camping being shown to be a false prophet again, you’d think folks would learn that the Bible is completely…
Francis Chan released a video today that powerfully promotes a book he’s currently working on about hell. It is obviously a response to Rob Bell’s controversial book about hell called Love Wins. I can’t help but think of the words…
Great post here by Thom Rainer that makes me want to thank Dr. W.O. Vaught and Gary Turner (both in heaven), Scott Duvall, Roger MacDonald, Sonny Tucker, and Shawn Barnard for being great pastors to me for God’s glory. Each…
Mark 5. It’s important to be honest before God’s people and not stand before them constantly presenting an unblemished life. Jairus and bleeding woman. Someone else’s miracle can be your discouragement. Imagine Jairus’ heart. Jesus went with him! And now…