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I don’t pretend to be fervent or righteous. I am a sinful man like the next guy. However, I have a story for you this morning. On Sunday we made a public appeal to our church for help – we are 2 weeks away from our self-imposed deadline for listing our house for sale. Yes, [...]
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This is a big day. Tonight Pastor Philip and I attend Cedar Grove Baptist’s Annual General Meeting. This is a big deal for a few reasons, but I will explain. Before Cheryl and I embarked on this journey towards church planting, we were just a nice couple with three kids attending a church of 1200-1500 [...]
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I have never spend so much of a day in prayer as I have today. And that has been a very good thing. One thing I have come to realize that the more seriously you take your life in ministry the more prayer is needed. And not just that you need more people praying for [...]
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This weekend our church had to deal with its first incidence of church discipline. As a part of the elder team, I have been in on the meetings and interviews and entreaties to change that have preceded it until there was no other choice. It is heart-rending since I have been a good friend and [...]
If there is one thing that consistently happens when you step out in faith and begin to serve God, it’s divine appointments. I think back on the Yard Teams I led in June, and how one of the last homes we approached was a couple’s home – they were renting and the landlord had just [...]
Speaking blessing to someone in prayer is immensely powerful. My wife blew me away on Monday night with that one. Repentance works. I laid my bad attitude at work before the Lord in prayer this morning as I drove. I’ve been incredibly, illogically upbeat ever since. Sometimes, even when you think the worst of someone, [...]
I’ll just say this out loud: we’re under seige, leading up to our trip. It’s becoming crystal clear that we are being attacked on multiple fronts, with discouragement and fear. It seems like for the last week, all the way through this week, every day has brought a fresh load of discouraging news. We don’t [...]
Sorry about the quiet spell. Came down with a bad flu last Friday, so that kind of chewed up a lot of time. Before that, I started a project at work which ate up 3 days, so that accounts for about a week of silence. Not a lot of new to report on tangible developments. [...]
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