Last year I did a quick review of a book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Great, great book.
I just finished his second book: “Forgotten God”. This one focuses on the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. For many Christians, the Holy Spirit is the most mysterious and least understood aspect of [...]
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Forgotten God
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Practicing His Presence
I’m re-reading a powerful little book that captured my attention 20 years ago. It is called “Practicing His Presence”, journaling two men’s attempts to continually be in the presence of God.
As soon as I opened it, I found some thoughts that are absolutely amazing. Each of these deal with lessons the author learned [...]
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Choosing to Cheat
Several people asked about the book I mentioned toward the end of the message this past weekend. It called “Choosing to Cheat” by Andy Stanley.
Here is the publisher’s description:
Work. Family. Church. Hobbies. Fitness. Housekeeping. Socializing. Sleep. With only 24 hours in each day, we simply can’t fit everything in. And what we choose [...]
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Man in the Mirror
Grace Point’s Band of Brothers is starting a NEW series this week based on Patrick Morley’s widely-read book called “Man in the Mirror”. This is an excellent resource to use in a room full of men. Over the coming weeks, we will be challenging each other to take a probing look at six of [...]
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Refuel
Our current sermon series is called “Running on Empty”. We have been recommending the book “Refuel” by Doug Fields to those that want to dig deeper into the subject of refueling lives that are running on empty.
I just ran across a great quote from this book today that I wanted to share with you:
God [...]
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Making Vision Stick
I just finished a very good, very short book by Andy Stanley called “Making Vision Stick”. It very succinctly discusses how to create and cast a vision that will stick with people in way that will influence hearts, motives and actions.
I would highly recommend this book for just about anyone, including:
leaders of any organization, [...]
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Hearing God: Last Post
As I read back through the posts on Willard’s “Hearing God”, some themes stuck out to me…here goes:
Our Motive: Too often, we want to hear from God to determine the correct course of action in a specific circumstance. In these cases, we can be overly concerned with helping ourselves rather than helping others or [...]
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