Helping people find and follow God
When I bought my first car (a 1972 Impala!), I went out and bought a map. Remember those things? And whenever I got lost, I would pull over at a gas station, pull out the map and see where I was and where I was going. The problem was I often didn’t know where I…
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Many call the book of Philippians in the New Testament, Apostle Paul’s “happy letter”. Unlike any of his other letters, he expresses lots of joy in it. The words joy, rejoicing and gladness are mentioned some 19 times in this short letter. Despite the sorrow he was experiencing during the time of his writing, as…
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Growing up in church you probably heard the story about Jonah. Maybe there was a felt board out on display with Jonah, a boat, a whale, Nineveh, the whole nine yards. The main point was then drilled into your head “don’t disobey God” from your favorite Sunday school teacher. What would you say if I…
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Have you ever caught yourself putting God in a box? Have you limited God to a certain characteristic or idea? A.W. Tozer said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” What you think, about anything, ultimately does express itself in how you live and even…
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Did you know the most important commodity you have today is not your money or possessions, but your time? Think about it, you can always make more money but you can’t buy more time. So when we give somebody our time, we are giving them a portion of our lives we will never get back.…
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Let’s talk leadership. How do you actually define leadership when there are so many different opinions out there of what defines a GREAT leader? I believe it is more simple than we think- I mean scripture is always so kind in pointing us back to the basics, even in leadership! At New North church we…
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How are you dealing with anxiety, fear and worry lately? As we SIP, some of you, maybe for the first time, are feeling overwhelmed. I read this week that 36% of Americans have said the pandemic has had a serious impact on their mental health. And 31% say they are sleeping less. For me, there…
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As we approach Holy Week, there has never been a bigger need for hope in my lifetime. Hope seems to be on short supply (much like toilet paper!), but despair is easy to come by today. Even before the onslaught of COVID-19, we had lots of reasons for fear and anxiety. In less than two…
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Have you ever been in the place where all the energy you have left is spent crying out to God? It’s that place where you’ve tried everything, you’ve relied on your own wisdom and strength, and you are left broken and feeling helpless. It’s that place where all you can do is say, “God help…
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The purpose of this blog is to help people find and follow God. To that end, I can’t think of a better place to direct people to go than the Bible. It is the primary place God speaks to us. But HOW does God speak in and through the Bible?
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