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Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Romans 12:10 The hardest thing about a church family is you don’t get to choose who shows up. You chose your spouse and you raised your kids but your …
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I don’t know about you and you might find this strange coming from a pastor but I don’t like tithes & offerings. This isn’t a debate as to whether tithing is even a biblically mandated New Testament church practice or …
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“He who has ears, let him hear.” ~ Matthew 13:9 It is no surprise to anyone who spends any time at all with me that I seem to have a hearing problem. My wife would probably say that it’s her …
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Now before you skip right to the end and leave hate comments, hear me out. I’ve thought long and hard as to whether I should write this post or not. It’s a sensitive topic and I get that. Perhaps, if …
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Most people who know me and know LifePoint Church know that we currently don’t have worship music on Sunday mornings. Through various life happenings a majority of the musicians are no longer available. This seems like a huge gap in …
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Maybe you’ve heard the story about the pastor who hired the atheist to evaluate several churches throughout America? No punchline, this actually happened and they wrote a book together about their experience called Jim and Casper Go to Church: Frank Conversation about Faith, …
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In preparation for something that I want to do at LifePoint I sent out a question into the social sphere. One of the questions that I got was one I decided to answer here on the blog. @robalderman asked, “Ecclesiologically, …
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I have been in this church business for quite awhile now and had been told repeatedly how important having a vision is. I had been told it should be clear. I had been persuaded that the leader with a true vision will …
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