Drop the “L”

Welcome to the New Year. It is always an interesting time as we turn the calendar from one year to the next. It is kind of like the changing of the guard. We always want many things to change in our lives and in the world. We even make resolutions as to what we will or won’t be doing in the coming year. Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution that didn’t last very...

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Andy Stanley Says We Must Earn…

What a great time it is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ! It just continues to amaze me that when we go out with a mind and heart open to reaching the lost, God places people right in front of us with open hearts of their own. I always get excited as I pray for opportunities to share my faith, and how God provides those opportunities. Why does He do that? He is faithful....

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Who Deserves Your Wealth?

Money. Wealth. Stocks. Bonds. Gold. Silver. Welcome to America, where people are consumed with their money and their stock portfolios. And when there is a hiccup in the market, we begin to get worried about our IRA’s and retirement funds. Where did all of this wealth come from? As I was reading my Bible the other day, I read Deuteronomy once again. It is a book that always challenges me. Deuteronomy 8:6-11 says, “Therefore thou...

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No More RAKs

There is a new trend going around: doing Random Acts of Kindness, or RAK for short. The idea is to go up to other people, often strangers, and do something nice for them. So go buy someone’s dinner, put their trash can back after the garbage collectors have left it astray, attach an encouraging note to their locker at school, go mow someone’s grass, etc. Think right now: in your life what would be a...

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Bon Jovi or Holiness? It’s Your Choice

Have you ever had one of those frustrating days of witnessing? I had one of those last night. Curtis and I were down witnessing at the Bon Jovi concert here in Atlanta. It was the second night in a row he was playing and taking peoples’ money, and it was the second night in a row that we were down there witnessing. What really began to frustrate me though was how many people claimed to...

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Guards Up

When I was speaking at a church in Mississippi last year, the pastor said a very interesting thing to me. I had spoken about not being deceived in the last days. Deception will be everywhere, and if you are not very careful, Satan will deceive you and pull you away from the truth. Afterwards, he made a very simple statement to me. He said one of our main problems as Christians is that when we...

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Stories From the Frontlines

This month we are going to do something a little bit different. I am going to share with you some of your stories from what has happened out there on the frontlines. They have encouraged and challenged me, and I hope they do the same with you! “Erick and I have been dating for three and a half years, and we have been having problems lately because of spiritual differences. He has been a strong...

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Light or Darkness, Your Choice

There just seems to be so much going on in our world today. The Olympic Games are about to start up again; the political conventions will be starting soon, etc. Didn’t we just have the Olympic Games? Didn’t America just vote for a President? Time seems to be moving quickly. Before the Olympics start in Beijing, there is a big event that happens across the world called the torch relay. A flame is lit in...

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Some Doctrine Each Day Will Keep Sin Away

Recently, I was reading an article about one of the current churches in America called Granger Community Church. It is a church in Indiana that is considered to be a “seeker sensitive” church. It has been listed as one of the top ten most influential churches in America. They are trying to reach out to the un-churched to make them feel welcomed in a church. I have told people in the past that one of...

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Double Dipping

Have you ever double dipped before? Sometimes we think of a double dip as a second scoop of ice cream. Now that’s a good double dip! But, I have a different meaning for the term. The term to me means the second place that you go witnessing in one day. So you double dipped, or had a second helping of lost people. A couple of weeks ago, some friends and I hit a local arts...

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Thankful (2008)

It is the month of November again: the month where we here in America celebrate our Thanksgiving to God holiday. For many of us, it is a great time to get together with family and friends, and to travel to see some relatives we don’t get to see often. We have just had our Presidential election here in America. As I write this, there is some major economic turmoil in our country. But let’s be...

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Public Manger, Public Cross and Resurrection, Public Faith

Recently, while I was traveling through the Atlanta airport, I was heading up a long escalator, so I struck up a conversation with the man in front of me. As we were talking, he mentioned that he was from Salt Lake City. He went to college in Utah and lived in Salt Lake City. So, I ended up asking him if he was a Mormon. Now I know everyone from SLC is not a Mormon,...

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