Novak Djokovic and How to Get Good
Included among this years’s 100 Most Influential People according to Time Magazine is a Serbian tennis player named Novak Djokovic. Djokovic started the 2011 season by winning 41 matches in a row. Since then he’s taken home the trophy from 4 of the last 5 grand slam tournaments and earned the #1 ranking in [...]
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Easter and Our Nice Little Lives
“I want two things that are mutually opposed – I want to live a nice little life, and I want to play an important role in God’s kingdom.” – John Eldredge This lent season I’ve had two quotes stuck in my head, and this is the first. It’s so honest and so… me. I [...]
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Love is a Trip to Branson
Joe passed away in January. He and his wife were in the 6th decade of their marriage, and in that decade, they had begun a tradition of driving to Branson, Missouri once or twice a year to hear a particular singer perform. All the way there – about 7 hours – they’d play her [...]
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Why It’s Okay To Be More Than ‘Just a Christian’
You know that one relative who asks you the same question at every family gathering? Or that guy in the office who regurgitates what he heard on sports-radio all day, every day? Or the friend you love, except when she tells that story for the millionth time? Obnoxious, right? How about this example [...]
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Tim Tebow and God’s Involvement in the World
I found this article, written by one of my former grad school professors, both interesting and helpful in sorting out all of the Tebow love/hate going around. As I’ve said before, when we think about God’s involvement in the world, there are two extremes to avoid. The first sees God as the cause of [...]
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Favorite Reads of 2011
Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Buy yourself a good book! As you start the new year, I hope one of your goals will be to pick up a book that draws you closer to God. Few things have shaped me as much as my habit of devotional reading, so I find myself [...]
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The Temptation Behind The Temptation and the Meaning of Christmas
You may know that the first story the Bible tells about humanity (after creation) involves a man, a woman, a serpent, and a piece of fruit. It would be merely a silly story if we couldn’t all relate to it so well. Eating a piece of fruit – could anything be more trivial? But [...]
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Five Unoriginal Lessons from My First Year Leading a New Church
Now, to get the ball rolling again, I’d like to share some of the lessons God’s taught us since ClearView Church launched. I wish I could say they’re original, never-before-thought nuggets of theological brilliance. Alas, they’re not. Maybe next year I’ll come up with something catchier – The Unicorn Principle, perhaps???
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ClearView: A By-The-Numbers Glimpse
I owe all of you an update on ClearView. We recently celebrated ONE, the first anniversary of our launch. After deciding to call the event ONE, we thought, “Why not use numbers to tell the story?” Sometimes churches seem scared to talk about numbers, like numbers are inherently unspiritual. I would just point out [...]
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Remembering the Step We Took: ClearView Turns One!
Remember the detail in the story of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River that the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had to step into the river? They couldn’t just walk up to the edge of the river. They had to get their feet wet (and risk looking mighty foolish) before God would [...]
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Novak Djokovic and How to Get Good
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Easter and Our Nice Little Lives
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Love is a Trip to Branson
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Why It’s Okay To Be More Than ‘Just a Christian’
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Tim Tebow and God’s Involvement in the World
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Favorite Reads of 2011
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The Temptation Behind The Temptation and the Meaning of Christmas
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Five Unoriginal Lessons from My First Year Leading a New Church
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ClearView: A By-The-Numbers Glimpse
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Remembering the Step We Took: ClearView Turns One!
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About
There’s nothing better than seeing what God can do with a human life. That’s why I’m the lead minister for the new ClearView Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, and that’s what this blog is about. Welcome, friend.
