How Honest Are You?

How Honest Are You?

by | Aug 23, 2021 | Unfiltered Talk Emails

(This is part one of a two-part email) My first year of marriage was one of the toughest years of my life. Save your stories about how amazing it was for you and how absolutely in love you were. We just weren’t there. I was a new pastor re-planting a church and my...
How Honest Are You?

Losing Our Version of Jesus

by | Aug 2, 2021 | Unfiltered Talk Emails

(This is part one of a two-part email. Next Monday is part two.) How many times has the phrase, “The Bible could not be any clearer about…” been used to manipulate and even abuse people? I will not give examples, but just study a little history. It’s happened one too...
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Stop Fixing People.

by | Jul 5, 2021 | Unfiltered Talk Emails

Jesus was unbelievably chill with people nothing like him. In fact, the invitation Jesus gives throughout the New Testament to thugs, prostitutes, political zealots, pastors, and pimps was to simply follow him. Follow him before they believed. Follow him even if they...
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Your Children Mirror What You Model.

by | Jun 28, 2021 | Unfiltered Talk Emails

So, quick thought for parents in the middle of raising little angry houseguests (I mean…incredible gifts from God). It’s so easy to become obsessed with teaching behavior to our kids that we undervalue the role of modeling behavior for our kids. One of the areas where...