Category: Daily Thought
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What does September 11 mean to you?
Like everyone else that owns a television I was inundated with reminders of the September 11 tragedy that happened just 10 years ago. As I flipped through the channels, saw the tributes at the NFL games, and watched the news channels each having their own take on what to present, a flood of emotions came…
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Pursuing Excellence
Yesterday a Godly leader shared a message at Bethel Baptist Church. Norris Price share a message on pursuing excellence and how God deserves nothing less than our pursuit of excellence. He shared about how are nature is to accept good enough and settle for mediocrity because many times, excellence is hard. He defined excellence as…
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CBG Fun 4 Fridays
Interesting and humorous response about James and what he might have gone through as Jesus’ brother. Thanks Thom Rainer for having it on your blog.
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End of the World Predictions
People claiming to predict the end of the world is nothing new. The list if vast of people claiming to be able to decipher the book of Revelation or have special insight into doomsday prophecies. What can we take from these guesses? As evangelicals, they out to be a wake cup call reminder of our…
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Your Church Blog: A Pastor’s Thoughts on Knowing What People Give
I recently read a blog article where Larry Osborne, pastor of North Coast Church explained how his thoughts have changed regarding pastors knowing about the giving patterns of his congregation. I’ll admit, at first, I was adamant about pastors not knowing, however, after reading through Larry’s points, I can see some benefit in knowing. My…
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Have you found a helpful messenger?
Thom Rainer posted on his blog today insights about the “Quest for Helpful Messengers.” He hit the nail dead on with his post. As leaders, we do often devote our attention to people from two camps. We have the first camp of people that feed our ego and continually praise our efforts. These people in…
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Are you Friends with God on Facebook or do you Follow Him on Twitter?
That question hit me this morning. Not that I am trying to reduce God to a facebook friend or twitter feed, but rather, do I seek God with the same veracity that I check Facebook and Twitter? I thought about it this morning. My general routine is to get up, head to the restroom, where…
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Planting the Seed
I’ve heard several people talk about presenting the Gospel as “planting the seed.” While this is a great illustration, I’ve found that using that term can sometimes be a cop out to neglect responsibility. Many will share with the church community that they are planting the seeds, and then letting God do the work. While…
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Are you Speaking Visitor’s Language?
I have recently become aware (and maybe overly sensitive) to Christianese. That language we speak at church using terms and idioms that we as Christians understand, but leave non-believers wondering. These terms have recently begun to stick out to me like neon signs. Terms used both from the pulpit, but also from those sitting in…
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Taking Risks for God
Joe Lawson, DOM for the Rehohoboth Baptist Assocation preached at Bethel Baptist Church yesterday about truly stretching your faith to expect God to do something BIG! So many times we sit comfortably with our faith. We know God, we trust God, but we don’t ask God to do the extraordinary. I heard a quote on the…