Growing up with a speech impediment, I grew to understand the power of words. I have a speech impediment, a stutter, that doesn’t inhibit my ability to think but merely inhibits my mouth’s ability to keep up with my brain. Stuttering, especially during the formative years of middle and high school, tended to serve as…
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This past week has been a week that was marked by tragedy. First we saw the shooting at Pulse Nightclub where 50 people were gunned down for their lifestyle choice. Shortly following that, a 2 year old was attacked and killed by an alligator. Both of these are horrific events and both for very different…
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When you are born, you don’t stop growing. You typically grow leaps and bounds. Even as you move into childhood you are still growing. Yet for our faith, we see evident in many cases where a person was willing to die to themselves but never came alive in Jesus Christ. We died to ourselves sure, but…
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When I started this series “Follow” I had a clear direction I wanted to go in. Actually, honestly speaking, I wrote the last one first. The idea was going to be to build to that moment where we are Following Jesus to get to this final point. Yet, the more I kicked the idea around in…
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White water rafting guides always seem crazy when you first meet them. I mean no offense by that either. Their dress and appearance are those who are looking for an exciting thrilling adventure, all without sleeves and sometimes without shoes. For a guy like me who doesn’t frequently go down white water rafting, this can…
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I never have an answer to the question “What is your 10 year plan.” I do have directions and things I am interested in doing, but a 10 year plan, I don’t have a mapped out plan of “success” as it were. Usually these are plans to survive and thrive financially and secure yourself in…
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Jesus is not content with a person praying a prayer one time. Jesus wants us to Follow Him. At the core of love is a Savior who wants to be in relationship with us and to have us be with him, always. While no one ever said this would be easy or painless, it will…
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At the beginning of this series, I said I hate the saying that God loves our brokenness. Mainly because the feeling of brokenness and God purifying our soul through the work of the Holy Spirit. This process hurts, cutting deeply to the heart of our wants and desires until all that is left is nothing…
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With the thoughts of brokenness and emptiness we can easily seem to think that we are at the center of the Universe’s attention. This isn’t to trivialize our struggles, for they are indeed very difficult. Our brokenness is a real brokenness. In the larger scheme of the world and in creation, we see a larger brokenness that…
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At the beginning of creation, we were made to have dominion over the world. We were made to rule over the creation that God had given to those who bore the divine image of God. Being made in the image of God granted us the rights and authority from God. We were given the task of…
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