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“Paul, You Are Out of Your Mind.”
What’s your Christian topic that shuts down the people you’re talking to? I’ve got a few of them. For example, if I just toss out a statement like, “This one time I was casting out a demon…” mostly everyone goes quiet and nods nervously, trying to decide if I’m insane or not. Paul also had…
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Searching for Godly Justice
There was a movie that came out recently that told a medieval court case from three different perspectives: a husband’s, a lover’s, and a wife’s. From the husband’s perspective, he was a great provider that protected his wife. From the lover’s perspective, he was a passionate and romantic man that was saving the wife from…
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Paul and the Old Testament
A few years back a popular pastor released a new book that supposedly tried to do away with the Old Testament. While I understand that the Old Testament has a lot of problematic material in it, doing away with it as though Christianity is its only separate thing apart from Judaism, is hardly the answer.…
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Watching Our Tone
One day I decided it might be good to check out a City Council meeting so that I could learn what kinds of concerns our community had and try to address them at our church. The most I knew of such meetings I had learned from the TV show Parks and Rec, and it was…
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Prophetic Words Require Effort
Before we launched Dinner Church we had a prayer group from a local conference stop by our church. As they gathered around us and prayed, one of them declared, “God is going to do something here in 7 months.” A few days later another person from the conference stopped by our church and prophesied, “God…
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Suffer Well
A friend of mine had a catch phrase of sorts that he used to tell me all the time: “Suffer well.” American Christianity is one that often likes to yell “Persecution!” every time something makes them feel ostracized or uncomfortable. In other countries Christians are willingly persecuted to death, but we sometimes lose our minds…
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Pharisees VS Sadducees… FIGHT!
As a bunch of us pastors broke into groups to pray for an urgent issue in someone’s life, I took the spiritual route and prayed that God would stop any spiritual warfare related to the situation. The pastor that followed me then prayed for the situation from a mental health perspective, which I was totally…
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What Are the Locusts of Revelation?
Many of the angelic trumpet plagues of Revelation are explained quickly and to the point. But once we get to the locusts, John pauses to give a lot of detail to what he’s seeing. This unusual amount of detail causes many readers to assign the locusts to various things past, present, and future. In this…
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Piecing it Together
In this message, I take a plethora of words, dreams, and visions given to 1208 over the years and try to piece together the themes in front of everyone as we move into our next season at church.
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Contextualizing the Gospel
I had a great time joining my friends over at First Baptist Church here in Jackson this past Sunday. I preached on the clever ways in which Paul changed his preaching style in order to reach the philosophers in Athens and why that matters to us today. You can start the video at 00:40:01. While…
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