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For years, I’ve followed a recommendation by Donald Whitney about a plan for meditating on scripture when I’m not following a specific Bible reading plan or doing a structured discipleship study. It was in a May conference for Arkansas campus…
Join me in a seven-day Bible reading plan and/or reading Matt Chandler's "Explicit Gospel" book.
It’s 2014. Doesn’t feel much different than yesterday, does it? Don’t let the past 24 hours fool you. This year, the days in front of you, are the most important days you’ll ever live. What you do over the next…
You’ve got to see this video by the Skit Guys. We showed it in church last Sunday night:
Unless you’ve had your head under a rock – or been in the duck blind – you are aware of the furor generated by a few isolated comments in an otherwise well-written and gracious article about Phil Robertson in GQ…
When we had to cancel church Sunday due to inclement weather (which never inclemented), we used Ustream to do a live video broadcast from my living room to share with Northstar Church and guests. Here’s the devotional thought from Matthew…
An exercise that I encouraged our staff to embrace was to create their plumb lines for ministry. A plumb line is defined in the web’s free dictionary as: 1. A line from which a weight is suspended to determine verticality…
Facebook fare I had another “I hate Facebook” conversation this week. It was with a friend who had seen a post that he couldn’t resist reacting to. That seems to be Facebook’s fare: reactionary posting. Before he cooled down, he…
In Mark’s gospel, it says that after Jesus got into the boat from the storm and water-walking incident (Mark leaves out Peter’s dip), that “they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.” (Mark 6.52) {Oh Lord,…