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I really enjoy sports. I like to play them and watch them. Recently the University of Michigan played for the college basketball national championship. They lost. I remember the last time they played for the national championship. They lost. My reaction to these two games are totally different. For many years when my teams would lose I would be angry. I mean, slap your momma angry. I would be in a funk for days. My emotions were completely caught up in the moment and the team and experience. Sports would arouse my affections. They captured my heart. A few years ago I began wrestling withRead More →

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Recently I started working out again. It is something that is not always what I would consider fun. Our gym gives you two free sessions with a trainer and it gives you a taste of what it would be like to have one regularly. Trainers don’t care about your comfort. They care about helping you achieve your goals. They intentionally make you uncomfortable. Each time you meet with them you are put into different situations and your body is pushed in a different direction. They are able to help you do things that you aren’t willing to do on your own. In our journeys ofRead More →

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My wife and I have been in full time ministry since 1998. We have been on all kinds of teams and in all kinds of ministry environments. I have friends who work for the para-church, the mega-church, and the little-church. I know church planters, church fixers, and church builders. All of us are very busy. The one thing that I have learned in my time in full-time ministry is that prayer is not doing the work of ministry. Everyone will tell you it is. But, our calendars and to-do lists show that we don’t believe this. If a pastor or missionary says, this week I willRead More →

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Today we are experiencing the horror of a school shooting in Connecticut that has resulted in the death of nearly thirty children. It is at times like this when I fall to my knees and ask God, “Why?” Where is God in the midst of this kind of tragic violence? Why did God allow this senselessness to happen? Why? Each one of the children in the Antioch Movement could have been at that school today. Why? We live in a world that is broken beyond our comprehension. Human sin is rampant. Self-hatred and hatred of others is at an all time high. Hate and distrustRead More →

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In a book that I am currently reading, Erwin McManus makes the following statement: Once survival becomes our supreme goal, we have lost our way. – Unstoppable Force Is that not an interesting statement? I think it is a safe statement that many of us believe that the majority of life is about survival. Survival of the fittest, at that. Yet, Erwin goes on to suggest that each generation is about the business of securing the next generation’s ability to thrive. What if life is not about surviving? What if life is about helping others to live? … As I write these words, I amRead More →