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Every Leader Has a Ziklag Moment

Being a leader is never easy. Possibly the hardest thing about leadership is dealing with followers that now want to string you up for something that you have no responsibility for. David encountered this situation in 1 Samuel 30. David and his men had gone out to war with the Philistine king, but before getting

Five important lessons that preaching has...

I have a ministerial student in my church who is taking a homiletics class. As a part of the class, she had to interview me. The process was awesome because through it I was able to crystallize some ideas that I had never put together before. One of the questions asked was, “What are the

You Can’t Hike Down to the Mountain...

Recently JoAnn and I went for a hike up Iron Mountain. Jo and I love to hike together because it gives us great alone time in which we can just be together without an agenda. Our only purpose is to have fun hiking and be with each other. This was the first time we had

Under Control

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—Romans 5:12 You know what the biggest problem with sin is? It’s the mistaken belief that we can keep it under control. It is the idea that if we just

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