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“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself.  Unless you know God as that – and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison – you do not know God at all.  As long as you are proud you cannot know God.  A proud [...]

As I’m in the final stages of preparing for camp (staff & counselors head down today at 2:00) I can’t help but think about the challenge Mark Beeson laid out to all who attended the GCC Men’s Retreat ‘08 last fall. 
He was speaking out of John 1:41-42 where Andrew brought his brother Simon to Jesus. [...]

My dad sent me this quote sometime last week and it fit in perfect the other day as I was sitting on my back porch listening to the rain.
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown.
Ephesians 5:15 encourages us to ‘be very careful how [...]

This post was right on the money.  This topic has been on my mind for a LOOOONG time and Tony did a great job of throwing some obvious truth into the mix of things to think about.
Here’s a glimpse:
“While the church still leans on a mix of rock and pop music as the preferred worship [...]

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John 6:66 “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.”
 
Everyone knows the captain is supposed to go down with his ship. It is a sign of loyalty, a sign of courage. Many of Jesus’ early followers later came to think that he was a [...]

Brooke and I were reading our devotional this past week and this really hit me because of what we’re called to do. These are two different thoughts from the devo by Oswald Chambers:
“One life wholly devoted to God is of more value to God than one hundred lives simply awakened by His Spirit” – Oswald [...]

Yesterday at SWAT (our all-staff meeting) I was so inspired by some things that Mark Beeson said that I was compelled to write this post. (None of this is stuff he said, but it’s where my mind went as he was helping us understand the difference between “Purposes” and “Values”.)
These are some of the questions [...]

This is from one of the best vision casters I’ve ever heard:

“Effective visions provide context, give purpose, and establish meaning. They inspire people to mobilize, to act, to move in the same direction… Every good leader realizes that effective visions cannot be forced upon the masses. Rather they must be set in motion by means [...]