Rough life.

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Rough life.

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Vacation-Cape Lookout

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Vacation-Cape Lookout

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Things are good. Sometimes, that means I blog a lot…sometimes, it means I slow down. This has been a slow down. But I want you to know things are good in many senses of the word with me.
Here’s what I shared yesterday in worship, about risk taking in obedience to God.

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March Madness had begun. I’ve watched a lot of basketball today, and I’m loving it. Reliving past memories. Totally excited that my annual office pool, now in its eleventh year, far exceeded my goals. It all began in 1997 with six people. Last year, I think I had 66 people, so this year I set [...]

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Last Sunday, the bravest and most moving part of the service was when a husband and wife shared part of their story of moral failure and God’s grace in the middle of that. I’d encourage you to listen to the service and hear their words.
I shared about how what we believe about God affects how [...]

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10 years ago this morning, IV’s in place, Elaine laid in a hospital bed saying, “It’s not doing anything!” The doctor was heading out of town, so he was inducing labor. After hours of relative boredom…things changed rapidly, and at 2:21 pm, we excitedly welcomed Hayley Elizabeth into our world.
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Yesterday in worship, we looked at Genesis 2 and 3 and Romans 5. This is my effort to invite people to examine their lives and choose to follow Jesus.

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I can’t decide between a soothing “aaaaaahhhhh” and a panicked “WHOA!”
Several years ago, I read Marva Dawn’s “Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God.” That experience was really unlike anything I’d gone through before. The words were challenging, harsh, and they turned the world upside down. But she was giving words to what was already [...]

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