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It is goal setting time
Goals. Resolutions. It is that time of year. Then will come the week of about January 15 when we realize it’s useless… There aren’t yearly goals I can think of in this context, though I still set them. The goal I think of right now is Christlikeness. Leading the way in that process is a gift I received from IVP: Eternal…
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The great longing of Christmas
Advent creates longing. The Scripture reading all season reflects on longing. I love the celebration of Christmas, but I also love the stirring this season’s readings create in my heart. A few weeks ago I walked into a colleague’s office and started with, “I’ve heard a rumor…” His ears perked up, but he was cautious because he is not a…
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The chaos of Christmas
One of my “unfavorite” Christmas carols is “Away in a Manger.” That line “no crying he makes” is just too much. He was a baby. An animal makes a noise while he sleeps, crying he makes. There are those subtle reminders in our lives where we need our nice, neat Christmas pictures blown up from time to time. A scared young…
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Pray…until
I absolutely believe in raising up the next generation. I also believe the next generation has much to learn. Especially in prayer. I look at the example of Simeon and Anna in Luke 2. Old people! No one paying attention to them! And on that day in the Temple they held the very promise of God. We need those examples…
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My Christmas Wish List
I don’t get asked a lot, but every once in awhile someone will ask what I want for Christmas. This year I’ve said the same thing: World Peace. I just don’t have a Christmas wish list. My life is full. My family is doing well. My wife and I are having a great time as we watch our sons mature.…
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12.14.14 Prophetic Voice Part II Podcast
“Prophetic Voice Part II” – A sermon from Heights Church Subscribe in a reader or on iTunes
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The paralysis of politics has made the Church pathetic instead of PROPHETIC
Please do yourself a favor and listen to a repeat of this live stream. I couldn’t fast forward through it, so it was necessary to listen carefully all the way through as evangelical/conservative leaders talked about race, racism, and justice. The very first comments from a conservative black pastor caught me. He asked someone who had been in a conservative…
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Believing in hell
There are days I want to believe in a hotter hell for those who perform such cowardly acts as killing school children in Pakistan. No matter what my theology may finally find to be true, today there is weeping. A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for…
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Longing for Messiah
May the earth be FILLED with the knowledge of the Lord! Let Advent longing rise up in each of us! A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of…
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Let’s Get This Done
From my message today: Race divided the Pentecostal church. From the beginning. What was powerful at Azusa Street was ripped away by the racism of America. The Assemblies of God became white. Church of God in Christ became black. The A/G had policies in place through the 1960s and even the 1970s in some places that would not allow blacks to be…
