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JESUS in the FLOODS & FIRES

Yesterday I literally encountered a flood in my office and a fire in my home. Fortunately both of these were not devastating but certainly were impactful in my wife’s and […]

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Only One True Hero for Me

Do you have some heroes or some central ideals you tend to wrap your identity around? So have I at various points in my life. I haven’t moved on from […]

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Healing Vs Hacking

It is creeping it’s way into the advice from an actual guru I saw posting an ad on Youtube to many I hear comments from around my town. Tricks of […]

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Grounded in the Gospel

The Gospel puts our eyes where they belong, gazing steadily into the Father’s heart as we encounter our God, holy and yet loving, awesome and yet approachable, beyond us and […]

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Wind and Doctrine

Let’s sit down for a muffin and some coffee sometime together and ponder our future as followers of Jesus. A moment of peace and comfort from time to time helps […]

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Questions Around the Dinner Table

They say the school of hard knocks is often encountered in the work and financial aspects of our life in particular. It’s my belief that the school of hard knocks […]

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Eternal Life Shows Up HERE and NOW

If we truly engage with Christ and His followers in the love Jesus modeled for us, our confidence in God’s eternal love grows!

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Our Suffering = God’s Gift

This photo is my daughter up with me from 4am to 6am today… Oof! We listened to God’s Word from Hebrews 11 to 1 Peter 5… Really refreshing spiritually… though […]

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Joined by ANGELS

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as […]

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SMALL & USEFUL Jesus Clusters

Jesus is our orientation! Jesus is our ever-fixed mark, the One we gaze upon in worship and the One we follow with a blood hound like tenacity. As we band […]

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Forgetting ME; CONSUMED with YOU

Jesus, We plead with You for ONE THING, to dwell in Your household of faith, to look upon YOU in community with Your followers, and to dwell with You forever. […]

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Slavery Today in the USA

This number is way low when we consider various kinds of sexual bondage beyond what I’m mentioning here, yet it is estimated that among our very own boarders there are […]

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House Church Life

It’s been amazing to see how truly simple life is as a follower of Jesus when our life isn’t about running an organization but rather washing one another in God’s […]

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Miracle on G Street

Two fun stories from our JMC family. One of my co-pastors and I had a wonderful conversation this morning about God’s provision and he shared how God provided the housing […]

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ENDURE Sound Teaching & Suffering

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn […]

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JMC Update & Abounding in Thanksgiving

Jesus Missionary Communities gathered yesterday for I believe it was our tenth worship gathering. We feasted on a Thanksgiving meal, and took communion together. We prayed earnestly for each other […]

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