1 second of fame is all you get today. It used to be you would get 15 seconds of fame. But not any more. The 1000 or 10000 likes will amount to 1 second of attention someone gave you while they scroll through their feed. God did not design us to be satisfied with 1 second of […]
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If God was a party planner what kind of party would he throw you? Imagine these two scenes: Scene 1: I’ve got a birthday party coming up. Where do I start? The invite list. Let me see who I want to come and who I don’t want to come. What’s next? Gifts. I don’t want […]
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I wrote this blog 10yrs ago. Its still True 10yrs later. Enjoy! ===== God’s strategy to reach the world is through Godly homes and the children that come out of those homes. God works through generations. Anointing, influence, power, prosperity and authority gains speed from generation to generation. Look at Joseph. He was the 4th generation […]
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Men need ceremony. Milestones of masculinity that are demarcation lines between Boyhood & Godly Manhood. I have been apart of a few of these holy moments of masculine ceremony. One of them was last week with my band of brothers. You can meet them in the Band of Brothers Part 1 & Part 2 podcasts. Mens […]
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I’ve had a terrible relationship with time. As long as I can remember, I’ve been at odds with time. Time was my enemy not my friend. I was always running out of time. I was always late. I was supposed to arrive at some place in my life, some level of stability, skill, success, title, […]
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I did not want to get up. I could hear my trainer from the corner of the ring yelling in slow motion Get Up! I lost count of the several rounds I had gone at this point. My face was flat on the mat. My mouth guard hanging out of my mouth, drool. I thought. “I can’t […]
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I biked around Amsterdam on a beat up bike like I was a local again. I lived & worked there in my 20’s with a Dutch ministry called Tot Heil Des Volks. Amsterdam is a city covered in stickers, street art, graffiti & dog poop. As I parked my bike on a canal bridge, a […]
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How did Jesus motivate people to action? I have been born again for coming up on 30 years. In those 30 years, I have attended a lot of church/worship services, small groups, and heard a lot of teaching. I have been apart of different denominational churches, non-denominational movements, and para-church ministries in the US, Australia, […]
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What do you do when your cool gets old? Do you do what Napoleon Dynamite’s Uncle Rico did….? Keep replaying old video tapes trying to relive the ‘glory days’! For the first time I started feeling old. I try to stay trendy in what I wear but when I went to my closet the other day […]
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I am lost. I don’t belong here. My wife asked me why I was going to the breath and the clay event. I said, I don’t know except I felt a ‘God prompt’ to go. On arrival, I felt out-of-place. I am not one of them. I am diffused light. They are singular and bright. […]
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Start nothing …fail at nothing Create nothing … Be criticized for nothing Risk nothing … Believe for nothing Created in Gods image… For nothing? No, a 1000 times no! You bear Gods image for something beatiful that brings life! Create, Risk, Reveal the glory that is hiding in you. We need you, we need to […]
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He stared at his reflection in disbelief and shock until a single tear rolled down his long nose into the water, then he awoke. The colt woke up surrounded by straight rows of dirt as far as he could see. He looked to the south and saw a dust cloud rising toward him. Out of […]
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I have a love/hate relationship with Bread & Chips. I hate that I love them sooooooo much! I’d come home from work on so many nights and cracker binge, chip binge, and bread binge. Ugh! This has been going on for some time to the dismay of my waistline. I’d feel bad about myself after […]
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“You were born an original, don’t die a copy”- John Mason I never seem to fit. I feel like an odd-shaped puzzle piece looking for the puzzle where I belong. I pride myself in being different from everyone else. But I’ve also feel lonely, misunderstood and like an outsider. At times that feeling drove me […]
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“The Race is not given to the swift nor the strong but unto them that endure to the end.” Ecclesiastes 9:11 Today My Dad turns 80 and He never quit! I know enough about my Dad’s story to know He came to crossroads in His life when He could have quit. Quit on God. Quit on his marriage. […]
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When my son was very young like 3 or 4 years old, He had a dream of heaven. In his dream He saw a river that ran through the center of heaven. He described the river as clear with multi-color reflections like a rainbow. He described the river as coming from under a throne. On […]
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The world is negative. Anytime I start to dream, there are internal & external distractors ready to tell me how what I dream can not and will not happen. They detail all the dangers, pitfalls and awful things that await me. Their voice sounds like…. Don’t hope. Face reality. Just settle. Settle into safety. Settle […]
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How can people that look so OUTWARDLY AWESOME not be as awesome as they appear? I “know” that this is true but I am sucked in again and again by the image people portray on social media as the reality of who they are, how great their relationships are and how much fun or impact […]
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I was surrounded by born-again Christians at a retreat I somehow ended up at. I saw how deeply the friendship & love ran between these Jesus followers, so different than what was my ‘norm’. They didn’t care about my atheistic, black magic, God-hating, drug-infested, sin-wallowing background. They loved me without knowing anything about me. They […]
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I remember when I was just a boy; my father would take my friends and I fishing at The Broad River in Western NC. Dad loved to catch Bass in the local rivers and always had colorful stories about his adventures with his brothers. It was a boy’s dream. I remember the first Bass I […]
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