Apr
10
Outflow: Outward focused living in a self-focused world. It is easy to read a book like Outflow and think things like: “I could never do it”. “I don’t have the right personality to do it.” “I don’t know how to do it.” “Those are nice thoughts, but I don’t want to do it.” Etc, etc, …
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Apr
07
As a kid, I’m sure I often complained that one of my buddies was a “copycat”. He would do or say something just like I did, and he would do it over and over! I should have realized that it was really a compliment. He was copying me because he thought what I said or …
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Apr
03
The last Outflow reading for this week was about discovering God’s vision for our city. On page 184, the author says that we should “pray that God will open our eyes and ears to the people who live in our city-but pray even harder that God will give you his compassion for our city. It’s …
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Apr
01
Reading 17 in the Outflow book ended with a story of Dave and his wife praying for people after Hurricane Katrina. This example showed people’s willingness to ask for prayer in the midst of overwhelming circumstances. But are people in everyday life that willing for you pray for them? I believe they are. I meet …
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Mar
29
The fourth week of Outflow is about overflowing the love of Jesus in our community. I am very excited to be working on some pretty cool ways for the Grace Point family to help our local community. It would be my dream that we could someday have a story like this one Kathe Pierce forwarded …
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