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Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery

Occasionally, I visit an online devotional page, which is basically daily excerpts from the Christian classic, My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. And as I was encouraged by the devotional entry for today, I wanted to share it all of you. My prayer is that this would encourage you this day as well:

When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no

Celebrate God

January is now behind us and we’re almost halfway through February. And I know it’s cliche, but I have to say, time really does seem to fly by. Football season is officially over, the Saints won their first Super Bowl , and now our attention is towards the other big day in this month – VALENTINES DAY. Now, I’m sure you’ve noticed all the commercials on T.V. and radio, encouraging us (and by this I’m talking primarily…

A Visit to The Porch

This past Tuesday, a few of our Pathway (Singles) leadership and I visited The Porch, which a weekly singles gathering that meets at Watermark Community Church in Dallas. I invited them to come with me in order to get some outside exposure on how other churches do their singles ministry, and maybe even help generate some ideas for our own singles ministry as well. And so really, I went with the posture of asking God to give our team greater…

The Church vs. The iPad

As many of you heard this past Wednesday (January 27th), Apple announced their next greatest invention, the iPad. And although it’s only been a couple of days since its release, the iPad has garnered a great deal of applause as well as it’s share of criticism. In other words, it’s been getting a lot of attention.

Now, I don’t consider myself a full-on Apple fanatic by any means, I would say that I’m more of a fair-weather follower, but I…

Reconnecting with God’s Word

January 2010 is almost over and I hope everyone is keeping up with their New Year’s resolutions. One of the key resolutions I made this year, as I do every year, is to be more consistent in my Bible readings and really making God’s Word a part of my daily life. For the few weeks we’ve been announcing an online Bible resource www.youversion.com, and what I’ve personally been appreciating the most about this resource is the wealth of…