John on July 25th, 2008

**Newsflash**
Contrary to popular belief, pastors do NOT only work 1 day a week.
In fact, pastors only get 1 day off each week – if they have the discipline to choose to take it off.
I’m kind of bummed – Friday normally is my 1 day off, but I’ve got to get a lot of stuff done [...]

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John on July 1st, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com

Each of us have lions that we face everyday – things/ideas/temptations that threaten to track us down and gobble up [...]

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John on May 20th, 2008

**Here we go with Chapters 4-7 of Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens. Tim’s a part of Granger Community Church’s executive leadership team and focuses on blending innovative outreach and discipleship. In Pop Goes the Church, Stevens wants his reader to be able to leverage our culture’s media saturation into opportunities to [...]

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John on May 5th, 2008

There’s something that burns deeply inside of each one of us, a yearning for majestic things like truth, beauty, and love, that we’ve callously labeled with 3rd grade spelling words. And like errant elementary school children we have passed up opportunities to understand these things more deeply, to experience their transforming power, and even [...]

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