| 181. | | Pastor Ché considers how much influence words bear on our lives “Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but names can never hurt me.”
It’s a saying that most of us learned in ... |
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| 182. | | Pastor Ché sheds light on what God's blessing really means for us We frequently use words without really thinking about or understanding them. Take the words “bless” and ... |
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| 183. | | Pastor Gwen Gibson shares a word from Hebrews 4:12
Hebrews 4:12 — “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the ... |
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| 184. | | Pastor Greg starts a series on leadership
One of my favorite definitions of leadership is by John Maxwell: “Leadership is influence.”
Simple, direct, clear.
To illustrate how ... |
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| 185. | | Pastor Matt opens a new series on discipleship An interesting phenomenon is happening across many streams of the Church in the West at the moment. Across denominational boundaries, geographical ... |
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| 186. | | Pastor Gwen shares a revelation on the power of both God's Word and our words. Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is living and active…”
When God spoke at the ... |
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| 187. | | Pastor Kenny dives into the question that most of us ask about worship
I am asked the question about what worship is all the time. Some say worship is everything we do if we love Jesus, while ... |
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| 188. | | Pastor Greg unpacks insights from Moses' leadership among the Israelites How can it be that Moses, who has been called the greatest hero in Jewish history, failed to lead his people into the Promised ... |
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| 189. | | Pastor Ché explains how believers can respond to the Great Commission through technology We have all heard the parting words of Jesus to His disciples: “All authority in heaven and on earth has ... |
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| 190. | | Pastor Matt continues the conversation about the Church's focus on making disciples In my last blog I posed a question that I have discovered many leaders across the Church at large are asking ... |
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| 191. | | Pastors Karl and Deborah share insight to married couples on how to show love to your spouse God said, “It is not good that man be alone.” – Genesis 2:18
When a couple gets ... |
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| 192. | | Pastor Greg reveals that being known is the way to develop trust and exert good influence as a leader One of my favorite leadership proverbs is “people follow only leaders they trust; they ... |
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| 193. | | Pastor Gwen reminds us that our influence should always point others to Christ John 1:35-37 – “Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus ... |
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| 194. | | Pastor Matt unpacks what being a disciple of Jesus really means In my last blog I suggested that converts are not the same as disciples. Jesus calls us to make disciples.
In this blog I want ... |
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| 195. | | Pastor Karl shares the take-away points from his recent Sunday message Many have asked for these declarations that came out of my message Sunday on Choosing Life in the "Terrible ... |
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| 196. | | Pastor Ché explains how our sixth sense—faith—supersedes our five physical sense “We've got to face the facts.” Often these words are spoken to curb someone's optimism when ... |
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| 197. | | Pastor Greg unravels the difference between effective leadership and good leadership and how they can meet One of the most interesting things to note about leadership, in my opinion, is that we ... |
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| 198. | | Pastor Greg shows from the lives of Joshua & Caleb that good followers become good leaders We have made a number of observations about leadership by looking at Numbers 13 and 14 (the story of the ... |
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| 199. | | Pastor Gwen encourages us to engage in the "loving honor" that accompanies the transfer of kingdom authority “The Father now judges no one, for He has given all the authority to judge to the ... |
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| 200. | | Pastor Matt continues the study of how we can define disciples, emphasizing the development of Christlike character and imitation of what Jesus did In my last blog I described how disciples are ... |
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