Tag Archives: preach

Looking for mushrooms

Posted on May 1, 2017 by He stirs up the people...

I’ve heard several people talk about going out to look for mushrooms over the last month. I have never gone out looking for mushrooms, but I have certainly seen them around. Continue reading →

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It’s too easy to feed people sweets

Posted on April 3, 2017 by He stirs up the people...

I had been a pastor for about 3 years when I took about 17 people from our church on their first overnight mission trip to Dayton, OH.  We were helping a church serve their community.  It was there that I … Continue reading →

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You never know how God is going to work

Posted on February 6, 2017 by He stirs up the people...

The other night I shared a quote from Matt Chandler, pastor of the Village Church in Texas.  He said the preacher is not responsible for the response of the hearer, but only responsible to God for preaching the truth of … Continue reading →

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Between the Sundays

Posted on June 23, 2016 by He stirs up the people...

This morning from the pastor’s office window at the church I can see Diane running around the parking lot.  The Flintstones comes to mind.  I always noticed the same rock and tree going by in the background as Fred and … Continue reading →

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Lukewarm churches to flee to

Posted on September 29, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

I’m listening to a Francis Chan sermon this afternoon.  In it, he says the primary reason to have kids is to raise up “warriors for Christ”.  We shouldn’t have kids simply to have fun little people running around who we … Continue reading →

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You can’t tell them what you really believe or they won’t vote for you

Posted on November 2, 2014 by He stirs up the people...

I’ve heard a couple of interviews with politicians and/or their representatives and they have said outright and inferred that they can’t tell you what they really believe.  If they told us what they really believed they believe they would lose … Continue reading →

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Oh, that I would be able to do anything else.

Posted on February 8, 2014 by He stirs up the people...

This morning I watched an hour and 10 minute movie about the life of preacher Charles Spurgeon.  He was the most famous preacher in Great Britain from the middle to the end of the 1800’s.  I’m not sure that most … Continue reading →

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I won’t have anyone saying, “If I had only known…”

Posted on May 31, 2013 by He stirs up the people...

Yesterday I called Foreman and Abbott, a local heating and cooling company, to look at the air conditioner at the parsonage.  The guy who came asked if his company installed our relatively new (2 or 3 years) AC unit.  I … Continue reading →

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