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  • “Blessed Are..” (Part 7)

    Thursday, August 7th, 2008

    Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5: 6-8
    Oh boy, here He goes again crashing into [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are..” (Part 7) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 1)

    Friday, August 1st, 2008

    Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, [...]

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  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 10)

    Sunday, August 10th, 2008

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5: 9-10
    Once again, Jesus’ remarks are antithetical to the way of life adopted by the religious leaders of His day, and to the [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 10) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 11)

    Monday, August 11th, 2008

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, and persecute you falsely, on account of Me. Rejoice, and be glad, for your [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 11) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 2)

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying… Matthew 5:2
    Multitudes of people, huge crowds, followed Jesus around. In fact, He was so pressed by the throngs of eager folks that He had [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 2) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 3)

    Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

    And when He saw the multitudes, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. And opening His mouth He began to teach them, saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:1-3
    As we have been learning, Jesus’ Sermon on [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 3) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 4)

    Monday, August 4th, 2008

    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:3-5
    How surprised the crowd must have been when Jesus began to teach. Someone with His miraculous abilities and crowd-drawing charisma [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 4) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 5)

    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Matthew 5:3-6
    Although many people may doubt it, [...]

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  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 6)

    Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive [...]

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  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 8)

    Friday, August 8th, 2008

    Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Matthew 5: 7-9
    Everybody would like to see God. Even atheists would be glad for the opportunity to actually behold God, and in [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 8) ”

  • “Blessed Are…” (Part 9)

    Saturday, August 9th, 2008

    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive [...]

    Excerpt from “ “Blessed Are…” (Part 9) ”

  • 1, 2, 3 Talents More

    Monday, September 1st, 2008 Excerpt from “ 1, 2, 3 Talents More ”
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  • Accepting Counsel

    Friday, August 15th, 2008

    And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the Word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. 1 Thessalonians 2:13
    In this verse we find [...]

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  • Access into The Innermost Circle

    Thursday, August 14th, 2008

    Have you ever been on the outside of some club or something and you wish you could get on the inside? You always felt you were just a total outsider? Well, what the Holy Spirit is for you is your access to get in into the innermost, the most powerful circle there is [...]

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  • Access to God is Through Jesus

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    Jesus is the one who gives me access to the Father. If I haven’t let Jesus have access to my life, then there is no opportunity for God to do what I long for.

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  • Access to Out-of-This-World Power

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    What concerns me more than the lack of thought is the lack of spiritually-discerned (biblical) approaches to the problems leaders face. It is as though we have traded in our “divinely powerful” tools for implements, strategies and solutions borrowed from universities, showbiz, or Fortune 500 companies. Under the guise of two important but limited values [...]

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  • Acquainted with God

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Acquainted with God ”
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  • Acts 8

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    Following the martyrdom of Stephen, the early church was undergoing persecution. God didn’t bring about the persecution, but He did use the situation to accomplish His purposes. A byproduct of the persecution was that disciples were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria, in partial fulfillment of Jesus’ words in Acts 1:8, that his disciples would be [...]

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  • Acts and Traits

    Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Acts and Traits ”
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  • Adequate Obedience

    Thursday, July 17th, 2008

    Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God… 2 Corinthians 3:5
    Do you ever have times when you feel lost and alone–times when it seems like God is saying nothing to you, or, at least, you aren’t hearing anything He might be saying? [...]

    Excerpt from “ Adequate Obedience ”

  • Adversity to Order

    Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

    Adversity to Order

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  • Affinity with Believers

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    The larger the number of such sub-cultures offered to a community through pioneer churches, the greater the likelihood that previously untouched individuals or people groups will find a socio-cultural affinity with believers.

    Excerpt from “ Affinity with Believers ”

  • Again, and Again, and Again…

    Monday, January 4th, 2010

    My great burden is to explain Kingdom matters to people. Jesus did that His whole life. He was always thinking, “How do I explain the Kingdom of God?” He had to do it many different ways—over, and over, and over again—because the things of the kingdom are difficult to understand. Even the great apostle Paul [...]

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  • Agency of Use

    Saturday, January 26th, 2008

    The primary agency the enemy uses to bring about his evil intentions is not demons, it is children who are walking in disobedience, just as God does His work through children who are obedient.

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  • Agents of Recovery

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    The Coastlands is impassioned with the idea of mobilizing mended nurturers. We want people themselves to be recovered and then learn how to turn around and become agents of recovery in the lives of other people. I love how it says in Isaiah 60:
    “The least of you will [...]

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  • Aiming the Future

    Sunday, January 20th, 2008

    So I guess what I want to say is that in effective ministry, we’re always reminding people of their future more than their past.

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  • All Aboard

    Monday, July 14th, 2008

    Although this prophetic insight was published in a Coastlands bulletin many years ago, it can be received afresh not only by those at the Coastlands, but also for those who are undergoing a significant spiritual transition and are feeling uncertain about the outcome.
    Tied to a pier is a large ship, whose crew and cargo have [...]

    Excerpt from “ All Aboard ”

  • All is Not Lost

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    …Nobody believes that the game is going to be won or lost on one play. If we don’t win on this series of downs, we’ll punt the ball away, and we’ll get it on the next series of downs. If we don’t score the touchdown on this particular [...]

    Excerpt from “ All is Not Lost ”

  • Along the Way

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    I shall keep Thy statutes; do not forsake me utterly! Psalms 119:8
    Once again the Psalmist speaks of keeping God’s statutes in the same way that someone might affirm that he or she will keep to a path without veering off. We often use the expressions “keep to your right” or “keep your appointment” when we [...]

    Excerpt from “ Along the Way ”

  • Altars of Uncut Stones

    Friday, October 24th, 2008

    “So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime. Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an iron tool on [...]

    Excerpt from “ Altars of Uncut Stones ”

  • Altered Times and Law

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    Altered Times & Law

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  • Ambassadors of the Wind

    Sunday, June 8th, 2008

    As John records the unfolding of the good news to the people of Jesus’ day, he makes continual reference to the two realms of reality: the physical world and the spiritual world. Spirit is not flesh. The two do not naturally coexist in the same world.
    That is why the Word (the spiritual makeup and meaning [...]

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  • Ambassadors to Go!

    Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Ambassadors to Go! ”
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  • Anointed to Rebuild

    Saturday, July 26th, 2008

    Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise up the former devastations, and they will repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Isaiah 61:4
    The promise of this verse follows on the heels of statements about what Messiah (The “Anointed One”) will do in His ministry on [...]

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  • Another Tough Balancing Act

    Friday, July 25th, 2008

    But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.” Exodus 14:13-14
    For our struggle is [...]

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  • Another Way to Look at Love (Part 1)

    Saturday, July 12th, 2008

    1 Corinthians 13 (Paraphrase):

    Love has a long spirit. It is able to endure for a long time without any encouraging response from the one loved. Even in the face of opposition or insult, real love can hold out without losing its fervor. Love is never crowded to desperation or claims of not being able [...]

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  • Another Way to Look at Love (Part 2)

    Sunday, July 13th, 2008

    Here’s the rest of the paraphrase we started exploring yesterday…
    1 Corinthians 13 (Paraphrase):
    Love always seeks to give, never to get for itself. It is so completely caught up in giving treasures from the heart, mind and soul that it is confused and embarrassed when anything is given back to it. It doesn’t quite know what [...]

    Excerpt from “ Another Way to Look at Love (Part 2) ”

  • Apostle’s Ministry

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    Apostle Ministry

    Excerpt from “ Apostle’s Ministry ”

  • Are you Susceptible?

    Monday, July 28th, 2008

    You cannot get for yourself what God wants to give you. Dissatisfaction with the boundaries of your inheritance or the place you are in life makes you incredibly susceptible to witchcraft and divination.

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  • Arise and Go

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008

    Now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.  Joshua 1:2-3
    Those of you who know me know [...]

    Excerpt from “ Arise and Go ”

  • Attitude!

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    For real estate, it’s “Location, Location, Location.” For church staff, it’s, “Attitude, Attitude, Attitude.”

    Excerpt from “ Attitude! ”

  • Available to God

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    “You’ll find in your walk with God that if you decide ahead of time this is how God has to do something, you probably won’t be available to God doing something the way He wants to do it.”

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  • Baggage and Battles

    Monday, July 7th, 2008

    1 Samuel 30
    Because of King Saul’s jealousy, David has had to flee with his band of followers into the land of Israel’s traditional enemies, the Philistines. David has sought and received protection from Achish, the Philistine King of Gath, and David has been given the city of Ziklag as his home. While away from Ziklag, [...]

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  • Balaam, the Donkey and the Angel

    Monday, October 27th, 2008

    And the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed [...]

    Excerpt from “ Balaam, the Donkey and the Angel ”

  • Balancing the Natural and Spiritual Realms

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Most of the time, pastoring calls for more thought and more revelation. I need spiritual discernment and sensible reasoning—balancing the natural and spiritual realms. Loving God with our heart, soul, mind and strength is a call for total integration—offering our whole being, with its multifaceted components, for service to the Lord.

    Excerpt from “ Balancing the Natural and Spiritual Realms ”

  • Basic Premise

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    You will never, ever grasp effective ministry until you understand this basic premise that people as we see them now are not the way that God made them.

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  • Basic Spiritual Lessons

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    LESSON 1 – WE ARE CREATED BEINGS
    I. We were fashioned in love and longing by God.
    A. We are not accidents, nor are we self-made people (Psalm100:3)B.  He made us unique and individual (Psalm 139:13-16)C.  He has marvelous plans for our life (Jeremiah 29:11)
    II. We were made with purpose and destiny
    A. In God’s image to have fellowship with Him (Genesis [...]

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  • Basket Cases

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    At the Coastlands, we liked to call ourselves “the first church of basket cases in Aptos, California.” I know everybody kind of chuckles a little bit. For us this is not a real shocking thing, but is as normative as it can be.
    Everyone is a wreck, one way [...]

    Excerpt from “ Basket Cases ”

  • Battle of The Kingdom

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

    So let me remind you that the things of the Kingdom, the battle of the Kingdom of God is not won naturally.

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  • Be an Example

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    Be an example even when no one can see you. We are discipling people even when they aren’t around.

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  • Be Fruitful and Multiply

    Saturday, July 5th, 2008

    Be fruitful and multiply

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  • Be Generous

    Friday, March 21st, 2008

    When you’re generous, money becomes a non-issue.

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  • Be Strong in the Lord

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    Be strong in the Lord

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  • Because of Relationship

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  • Become Great In The Kingdom

    Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

    Become Great In The Kingdom

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  • Being Changed

    Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

    “But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
    A prophetic word has dropped like a pebble into the pool of my understanding, and I’ve been struck by [...]

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  • Being Changed

    Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

    But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18
    One of the prophetic words we received recently dropped like a pebble into the pool of my understanding, and [...]

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  • Believing in People

    Sunday, August 24th, 2008

    We are leading a group of people who feel they have no significance, who have been battered and abused, who have been rejected, who have grown up in a culture where they are used and discarded – where they have no lasting value. And these poor people who feel like they really can’t do or [...]

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  • Believing is Seeing

    Sunday, September 7th, 2008

    Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.” John 20:29
    This verse relates Jesus’ gentle reproof of (Doubting) Thomas, who had told the other disciples just days earlier that he would not believe Jesus had come back from the dead unless he [...]

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  • Beneath our Experiences

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    Theology that is the knowlege of God

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  • Benefits

    Saturday, January 12th, 2008

    God wrote His Word so that you and I can experience more bounty and blessing.

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  • Best Antidote

    Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

    The Bible is the best antidote I know for confusion.

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  • Bible Has the Answers

    Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

    We have an answer for everything that plagues the human soul, and those answers are only found in the Bible.

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  • Biblical Dimensions

    Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

    “The Bible is a manual about both dimensions: material and spiritual, visible and invisible – in the past, present and future.”

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  • Biblical or Personal?

    Friday, August 1st, 2008

    My thoughts and conclusion, won’t help anybody -the only thing that helps is the word of God.

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  • Body Parts

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    The global body of Christ needs even more ministry variety and “body” parts than a local church does. All are neither eyes nor ears. The biblical secret for a healthy and growing church (whether it is local, national or global) is found in Ephesians:
    “…the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every [...]

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  • Bonding People

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Bond people to each other by getting them to work on projects together.

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  • Break the Curse of Your High School Yearbook

    Monday, May 5th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Break the Curse of Your High School Yearbook ”
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  • Break the Isolation Barrier

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    If you’re isolated, it is unlikely God will speak to others through you.

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  • Bridging the Gap

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    Praise and worship bridge the dimension-gap and transport us, as it were, into the closest possible proximity to the Lord. The reason we worship at the outset of our services, the reason we praise God as the first act of prayer (remember “The Lord’s Prayer”) is because worship acts as a filtering/concentrating agent to remove [...]

    Excerpt from “ Bridging the Gap ”

  • Bring Me Back

    Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

    Bring Me Back

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  • Building People is the Goal

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

    Excerpt from “ Building People is the Goal ”

  • Building Self-Esteem in Children

    Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

    Most parents are looking for practical understandings and suggestions about parenting. Even those without young children can benefit from a better grasp of this most basic relationship; we are all, at least, children of the Lord.The Bible explains over and over the essential patterns God has established in the making and the redeeming of the [...]

    Excerpt from “ Building Self-Esteem in Children ”

  • Busting Through Growth Barriers as a Church

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    We know from research that churches tend to get stuck at predictable sizes; if we “count” the average attendance at the weekly service (including children in the count), we see 90% of churches all over the world plateau at 40, 60, 90, 120 and 200. Only 10% get larger than 200. We know, also, that [...]

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  • By His Little Finger!

    Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Excerpt from “ By His Little Finger! ”
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  • Bystanders of Glory

    Sunday, April 13th, 2008

    We are just bystanders of what God does through spiritual gifts – God gets the glory, not man; people who want to “minister” in the gifts (meaning draw attention to themselves), but not serve others have the wrong focus.

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  • Called to Love

    Sunday, August 10th, 2008

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  • Calling Us into Our Future

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    God is always calling us into our future. He calls us away from today and yesterday so we can enjoy tomorrow. Sometimes the journey away from our past and out of our present takes longer than we had hoped. But His is a relentless transport, ever working on our behalf, pressing us “forward to what [...]

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  • Capable Followers

    Thursday, July 26th, 2007

    Church leaders tend to decide for their followers what little they are capable of handling. That’s backwards. Instead, believe more about them.

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  • Cares of Life

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    Daily life, especially as a mother can be so monotonous and repetitious, and the cares of this life don’t have to be something bad. They can be the good things I care about; things I take care of all the time. Even those things can crowd out the seed of real life that the Lord [...]

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  • Caught Sinning

    Monday, August 25th, 2008

    Jesus is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Acts 5:31
    The Lord pointedly told me I had an attitude in my heart which was wholly unacceptable to Him and to His Kingdom life. I wanted to plead innocence, [...]

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  • Caught up in the Crowd

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    It is one thing to be encouraged on our way by the cloud of witnesses surrounding us; it is something else to be caught up in the crowd pressing us to abandon our position in favor of theirs.

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  • Ch-ch-Changes!

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  • Challenge of Balance

    Friday, July 11th, 2008

    It is good that you grasp one thing, and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them. Ecclesiastes 7:18
    Life in Jesus is very simple—love, trust and obey Him. We are ever warned against letting anyone or anything leading our minds astray “from the simplicity [...]

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  • Challenged by Successes

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    Churches can sometimes be challenged by their very successes. For instance, let’s say a person gets spiritually healed at a church whose mission is like that of a spiritual hospital. That healed person might then feel a desire to enlist—and mobilize others—in a ministry that is more outreach-oriented. The church’s mission was successful in bringing [...]

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  • Challenging the Spirit of Jezebel

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    How do you challenge the spirit of Jezebel? A lot has to do with pointing out things in that person’s walk or in their life that are not consistent [...]

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  • Change–It’s a Good Thing

    Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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  • Cheerful, Gentle and Courageous

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    I saw an epitaph on a grave in Great Britain a couple of years ago and it impacted me as much as anything in my life ever has. It was a statement on a tombstone of some soldier who had died in the Crimean War, and it said, “To (whatever his name was) who was [...]

    Excerpt from “ Cheerful, Gentle and Courageous ”

  • Cheering or Jeering?

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    One of the things (and there are many) I love about the Bible is that it is so real—it records actual events with the true-to-life reactions of everyday people.  Other so-called sacred writings are allegorical, fantastic or mythological anthologies which ultimately urge people to abandon this life.  The Bible urges us to live this life [...]

    Excerpt from “ Cheering or Jeering? ”

  • Chemical Indication

    Monday, March 24th, 2008

    The litmus test for whether something is true is if it can be found in the Word of God.

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  • Choose Your Weapon

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    Most believers don’t have real knowlege of how to battle spiritually

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  • Choosing Christmas

    Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

    When Christ came into the world, He said, “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You prepared for Me.” Then I said, “Here I am–it is written about Me in the scroll–I have come to do Your will, O God.” Hebrews 10:5-7
    Most of us know the Christmas story fairly well–the star, the [...]

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  • Choosing How You Leave

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    Two cannot walk together without agreement. Every son and daughter of God must lead his or her own life in Jesus. I almost never lost respect for people who felt led to “move on” and away from Coastlands. The only ones for whom I lost all respect were the people who forgot what had been [...]

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  • Christmas for Every Generation

    Thursday, December 25th, 2008

    . . . tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wondrous works that He has done. Psalm 78:4
    One of the many demarcation lines in life that declares, “You are old(er),” is etched in the living room at Christmas. It goes like this: When you buy or [...]

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  • Church – A Vehicle

    Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

    Church should be a vehicle that can take people somewhere they can’t get on their own.

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  • Church is a Process

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Learning to see the capabilities, giftings, and the skills of the people of your congregation may be one of the most critical elements of church, but let’s remember church is a process. It isn’t something you take a snapshot of and look to see how well it is [...]

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  • Church is Their Home

    Sunday, January 13th, 2008

    Public, generic announcements are worthless and even counterproductive in getting people involved in our churches. However, inviting people personally to help will be almost irresistible. In this way, we give them a sense of being involved so they feel it is their church, their home.

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  • Church Plant’s Most Important Element

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    …The point is that the pastor is the single most important element of the pioneer church… If he has a genuine, contagious relationship with Jesus, his congregation will too.

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  • Church-Goer to Church Planter!

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    I believe that God leads people a little at a time, one step after another. If we want to end up with many lay leaders who eventually decide to “go for it” and lead congregations of their own, we have to begin the step-by-step process now. A faithful Sunday school teacher who gets inspired to [...]

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  • Church: What People Are Really Looking For

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  • Circumstances for Our Benefit

    Thursday, March 13th, 2008

    If God simply changes our circumstances, it disallows Him from using our circumstances to change us.

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  • Comfort in Deep Valleys

    Friday, June 13th, 2008

    “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4
    Anyone who has walked with God for any period of time has experienced the phenomenon of “seasons of the soul.” By this I mean those [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:1

    Sunday, July 20th, 2008

    Nowhere does the Bible say more about itself than in Psalm 119. This, the longest chapter in the Scriptures, communicates countless facets of God’s Word – what it does, how it works, why it affects us the way it does and the nature of the life it carries within itself.
    Most of us have a flat [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:10

    Friday, September 12th, 2008

    Verse 10: “With all my heart I have sought Thee; Do not let me wander from Thy commandments.”
    The Psalmist declares with complete integrity that to the best of his knowledge and understanding he has sought God. This word “sought”, in its most liberal sense, means to have “tread after” or to have “frequented particular [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:105

    Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

    Verse 105: “Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.”
    The Word provides the direction we should go in, even as the pillar and the cloud led the Israelites in the right and good way. As long as we stay in the Word, we will never walk [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:11

    Saturday, September 13th, 2008

    Verse 11: “Thy word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.”
    The devil, like a master thief, is waiting for any chance to steal the gems (of God’s Word to us) from our hands. Jesus tells us to take care of the words we hear, for the devil often [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:111 and 151

    Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

    Verse 111: “I have inherited Thy testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.”
    The Scriptures and all they contain are an inheritance — an estate or legacy left to us by the Lord, containing all the provisions of blessing and health as well as all the promised events belong to [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:12

    Sunday, September 14th, 2008

    Verse 12: “Blessed art Thou, O Lord; teach me Thy statutes.”
    When the Psalmist declares, “Blessed art thou, O Lord,” he is not only making a statement of his desire that the Lord be blessed by the Psalmist’s praise, but he is also aligning himself and his life with God.
    To “bless” is literally to “kneel [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:13

    Monday, September 15th, 2008

    Verse 13: “With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of Thy mouth.”
    After the Psalmist has “treasured” God’s Word in his heart, there comes the resulting flow of those words through his mouth. In our heart, God’s words become like springs of water which break through the crust of the earth to spread [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:14

    Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

    Verse 14: “I have rejoiced in the way of Thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.”The reason we enjoy having money is that, in our system of exchange, money is the means by which we procure many of the necessities and luxuries of life. Monetary prosperity, in and of itself, does little for someone; [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:24

    Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

    So far, we’ve been looking in depth at all the initial verses of Psalm 119 one by one. Starting with today’s devotion, we’ll be going a little faster through selected verses, starting here with verse 24:
    “Thy testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.”
    Delight =

    Enjoyment
    Bringers of inner joy
    The means of joy regardless of external [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:25, 27, and 28

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Verse 25: “My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Thy Word.”

    When we are brought low by circumstances or trials, and we have no strength to get up, God’s Word picks us up.

    Verse 27: “Make me understand the way of Thy precepts, so I will meditate on Thy wonders.

    The more we understand [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:3

    Sunday, July 27th, 2008

    Verse 3: “They also do no unrighteousness; They walk in His ways.”
    Because God is light and in Him is no darkness at all, all His ways are completely righteous. The paths, the directions and manners in which He moves and would have us move are precisely the right and correct ones. By “ways,” the Scriptures [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:32, 50, 52, and 58

    Thursday, September 18th, 2008

    Verse 32: “I shall run the way of Thy commandments, for Thou wilt enlarge my heart.”

    As we read His Word, God enlarges our heart for love and increases our understanding.

    Verse 50: “This is my comfort in my affliction, that Thy Word has revived me.”

    God’s Word quickens us in any [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:4

    Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

    Verse 4: “Thou has ordained Thy precepts that we should keep them diligently.”
    “Precept” comes from a Hebrew word which has to do with visiting or coming to some situation in a position of authority and giving directions or instructions about what should be done. A precept can be thought of as an “overseer” whose primary [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:5

    Thursday, August 14th, 2008

    Verse 5: “Oh that my ways may be established to keep Thy statutes!”
    Here the Psalmist is asking to be set up, situated, and framed in such a way that obedience to and regard for God’s statutes comes as a matter of the course his life has been set upon. Statutes are appointments with God; [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:6

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    Verse 6: “Then I shall not be ashamed, when I look upon all Thy commandments!”
    In this verse the Psalmist recognizes that once his ways or steps are firmly established along the particular course God has for his life, then he will not be ashamed at having missed his appointments, misappropriated his time or misunderstood God’s [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:7

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Verse 7: “I shall give thanks to Thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn Thy righteous judgments.”
    The Psalmist here speaks of a heart which is made upright or set in order as a result of having learned God’s judgments. Because those judgments or rulings (which correspond to particular circumstances or events) are absolutely [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:71, 73, and 86

    Saturday, September 20th, 2008

    Verse 71: “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy statutes.
    Sometimes the Lord allows us to be afflicted to drive us to His Word, so that we might learn it — knowing the Word is to our benefit, and that He will cause all things (affliction) to work [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:8

    Thursday, September 4th, 2008

    Verse 8: “I shall keep Thy statutes; Do no forsake me utterly!”
    Once again the Psalmist speaks of keeping God’s statutes in the same way that someone might affirm that he or she will keep to a path without veering off. We often use the expression “keep to your right” or “keep your appointment” when [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:89 and 91

    Sunday, September 21st, 2008

    Verse 89: “Forever, O Lord, They Word is settled in heaven.”
    His Word is firmly established in Heaven, and it will never pass away or change. Ultimately, just as every knee will bow to confess or agree with God’s truth that Jesus is Lord, so also will everyone and everything be brought into conformity with God’s [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:9

    Thursday, September 11th, 2008

    Verse 9: “How can a young man keep his way pure?”
    Along the way and during the course of our journey in this life towards God, as we walk in His ways and follow the path of life that He has set us on, there is the constant danger of walking down the wrong trail. [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:92

    Monday, September 22nd, 2008

    Verse 92: “If Thy law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.”
    We perish in affliction and completely give way to spiritual death or despondence only when we forsake the sustaining and strengthening work the Word does in us when we read it. One of God’s ordinances is that your [...]

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  • Companions, Counselors, Friends: Psalm 119:98-100, 104

    Thursday, September 25th, 2008

    This is the final installment of Daniel’s study in Psalm 119…
    Verse 98-100, 104: “Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. I have more insight than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my mediation. I understand more than the aged, because I have observed Thy precepts…From Thy precepts [...]

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  • Confessing My Iniquity

    Saturday, October 4th, 2008

    For I confess my iniquity…” Psalm 38:18aIn light of our desire to confess to the Lord and to one another, I thought we would benefit from a little review.  Full confession can be distinguished from partial or non-confession by the extent to which we do the following to our sin:1.To front: put it in the [...]

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  • Contagious Enthusiasm

    Thursday, February 21st, 2008

    Our enthusiasm as leaders is contagious. If we are excited about something, our people will catch that excitement.

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  • Control Our Own

    Saturday, April 26th, 2008

    The Bible tells us to control our own spirit.

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  • Correction and Hope for Children

    Thursday, October 8th, 2009

    Introduction.Parenting Is Not a Formula.
    God is a Perfect Role Model.
    The Bible Offers Many Unexpected Tips on Parenting.1. 1 Thessalonians 2:8-11 (gentle, affable, nursing mother; imploring father).2. Psalm 103:13 (“Just as father has compassion on children, so the Lord…”).
    Parenting Has Purposes.A. To Teach Children about God.1. He is great and good.2. His word and way is truth.3. He loves and adores them.
    To [...]

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  • Counsel Shopping?

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  • Counseling Others

    Monday, December 15th, 2008

    Counseling others

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  • Court of Heaven

    Sunday, October 5th, 2008

    “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the [...]

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  • Covenant of Hope

    Friday, May 2nd, 2008

    The new covenant is a covenant of hope and promise. It’s all about what you and I can become in God. It’s Jesus, who’s done the work for us, and He extends this beautiful invitation, saying wouldn’t you like to be more the way the Father meant you to be? Wouldn’t you like [...]

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  • Covet the Gifts to Love

    Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

    Covet the gifts to Love

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  • Coveting Kind of Spirit

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    The spirit of Jezebel wants others’ places—their inheritance. It wants to get for itself what belongs to someone else. It is uniquely a coveting kind of spirit. So Ahab [...]

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  • Crazy Obligation

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    If we really believed that God in His sovereignty is arranging people and situations that are around us, we could be freed from this crazy obligation when we feel it’s our job to teach people everything they need to know.

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  • Creating the Right Atmosphere

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    It’s vital that it’s not just all about what you say but with what you do. Since we talk a lot about recovering people, it’s very important in our church-family that we have an atmosphere of confession, accountability, and vulnerability because if I’m not vulnerable to anyone, if [...]

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  • Credibility, Part 1

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008

    Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20
    Since Jesus commissioned us to make disciples, [...]

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  • Credibility, Part 2

    Sunday, June 15th, 2008

    Authority–Why should people listen to us?
    But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” Mark 9:34-35
    Servants basically ask, [...]

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  • Credibility, Part 3

    Monday, June 16th, 2008

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as [...]

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  • Credibility, Part 4

    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

    Credibility is in the heart and eyes.
    As we have been seeing, credibility is not just the result of knowing a lot or being competent. One cannot have credibility with others without knowledge and competence, but before we can become credible in the eyes of others, they must see other qualities in us that have little [...]

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  • Critical Element of Church

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Learning to see the capabilities, giftings and the skills of the people of your congregation may be one of the most critical elements of church. But let’s remember church is a process. It isn’t something you take a snapshot of and look to see how well it is [...]

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  • Criticisms

    Sunday, September 14th, 2008

    My advice to you as a leader is don’t spend a lot of time laboring with the criticisms of people who only know how to tear something down but don’t know how to build it up.

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  • Cry in Our Culture

    Sunday, February 24th, 2008

    And what people in our culture are crying out for is the permission to be the unique individual that God made them to be.

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  • Cure for Anxiety

    Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

    Matthew 6:19-34
    Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount to a group of people who want to live their lives according to the power they witnessed when Jesus healed and performed miracles. They want to function like Jesus does. The power He has to transform life on earth is obvious. They now want that power in [...]

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  • Cures that Don’t Work

    Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

    Now we pray to God that you do not wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we should appear unapproved. For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 2 Corinthians 13:7-8
    As a church, we commit ourselves to communicating the [...]

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  • Cutting Off the True Prophetic Voice

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    In 1 Kings 18:4, it describes the first attribute of the spirit of Jezebel. This is the first appearance of where it seeks to cut off or destroy the true [...]

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  • Dangers of “Team” Pioneering

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    The three main dangers of team pioneering [a church] are power struggles, cliquishness and “basket cases.”

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  • Dead or Alive?

    Monday, April 21st, 2008

    Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. Psalm 119:165
    As Easter approaches, we are reminded of the central truth in the Bible concerning the state of our relationship with the Lord. Jesus has risen from the dead; the grave could not hold Him in its power; He has triumphed over [...]

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  • Dear Heavenly Father

    Sunday, October 19th, 2008

    “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” Romans 8:15-16
    Unlike many people who have experienced spiritual traumas in their [...]

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  • Declaring His Praise in The Coastlands

    Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

    “He will not be disheartened or crushed, until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who dwell in darkness from the prison. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise [...]

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  • Deep Influence

    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

    Thy word have I treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee. Psalms 119:11
    This verse continues the Psalmist’s understanding of how crucial it is for us to have God’s Word deeply held in our mind and soul so that it influences what we think, feel, and choose to do. God’s Word is [...]

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  • Defending Your Heart

    Monday, April 14th, 2008

    “Forgetting about your sin but enduring the guilt it brings is not repentance; it is a natural attempt to defend our heart.”

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  • Definition

    Monday, June 1st, 2009

    Jesus has a Problem

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  • Delightful Fruit

    Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

    <i>My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart also will be glad; and my inmost being will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.</i> Proverbs 23:15-16
    This scripture summarizes the whole point, the whole goal of raising children or of discipling people. The wise man, Solomon, says to his son, “When [...]

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  • Deliverance is a Reality

    Monday, July 14th, 2008

    An Introduction to the Ministry of Deliverance – Quickquote 1

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  • Delta Recourse

    Saturday, October 18th, 2008

    “The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the Lord, will answer them Myself, as the God of Israel I will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the [...]

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  • Demonic Extremes

    Sunday, April 20th, 2008

    The demonic doesn’t just exist in certain cultures.

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  • Demonic Nature

    Saturday, July 5th, 2008

    It clamors inside you or outside you for more attention.

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  • Demons Are a Low Order

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  • Description of a Pioneer Pastor

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    A pioneer pastor should be a self-motivator—someone who gets up and is ready to go, always having more ideas of what to do than he has time to do them.

    Generally speaking, the renegade, the rebel, the problem-maker, the guy who will not go with the system is the one who should be sent to [...]

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  • Difference One Can Make

    Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

    Introduction to the book of Ruth
    Sometimes difficult circumstances force a change in your life plans that we would rather not undergo.  It may be a financial crunch that requires us to change jobs or move out of our house; or a family need that calls us to move to another city; perhaps not getting a [...]

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  • Difference You Can’t Imagine

    Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

    Be available for the Lord to do things for us in ways that are very different than we would imagine.

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  • Different Perspectives in Ministry

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    Very often conflicts over one thing or another in church signal a deeper disagreement between people about how church ought to function. When leaders in a church have a different perspective about the church’s calling than the pastor has, things can be painful and confusing. That doesn’t mean that the pastor is right and the [...]

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  • Dilemma in Europe

    Monday, September 29th, 2008

    Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” John 11:9-10
    “Uh-oh. I have a problem here.” The realization struck me [...]

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  • Discernment and Judgment

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    Discernment always tends toward judgment, and I promise you this: you will never intend to treat people unfairly or deny them the dignity of disagreeing with your discernment, BUT you will do exactly that over the course of your life. Without meaning to do so, you will do to others what you feel is being [...]

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  • Discipleship

    Thursday, October 9th, 2008

    “And the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” 2 Timothy 2:2

    Entrust = paratithemi = place along side, present to, deposit (as a trust) commend, set before– commit to one’s charge
    Faithful men = pistos = trustworthy, [...]

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  • Discipleship

    Saturday, June 28th, 2008

    Discipleship

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  • Discipleship is Terminal

    Thursday, May 1st, 2008

    Our discipling is terminal. It has a fixed end point at which time we send our disciples out to disciple others.

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  • Discipleship: An Invitation

    Thursday, July 26th, 2007

    Discipleship is a series of invitations we make to the people we have contact with. We invite them to observe our lives so they can see what is really going on with us. This requires vulnerability and transparency on our part to show others that we are real people with real struggles. We also invite [...]

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  • Disrespect and Self-Esteem

    Friday, March 7th, 2008

    Disrespect to authority is the biggest temptation amongst teenagers.

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  • Dissatisfaction Makes You Vulnerable

    Monday, January 21st, 2008

    You cannot get for yourself what God wants to give you. Dissatisfaction with the boundaries of your inheritance or the place you are in life makes you incredibly susceptible to witchcraft and divination.

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  • Distortion and Confusion

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    When the spirit of Jezebel manifests itself completely and takes over a group, it becomes like a cult. Whenever anybody goes against the cult leader, they’re told they need [...]

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  • Do I Have Your Attention?

    Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

    Do I have your attention?

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  • Do We Celebrate Christmas — I Mean with a Tree and All?

    Sunday, December 14th, 2008

    All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them. Nehemiah 8:12
    Celebrate (sel’ e brate) — 1. to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities. 2. to make known [...]

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  • Don’t Bury Your Head in the Sand

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Having watched too many Pentecostal pastors’ utter disregard for thinking things through, I believe a good many of their quandaries in ministry could be solved with more careful planning and more articulated thinking. So, don’t hear me calling for an ostrich-spirituality where leaders bury their head in the sand and try to navigate the complexities [...]

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  • Don’t Desert

    Thursday, March 8th, 2007

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  • Don’t Let Anything Steal Your Christmas

    Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

    “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people…” Luke 2:10
    I can hardly contain the wealth of joy and celebration I feel as we look with great expectation not only to the next several weeks, but to the next many years. By God’s merciful [...]

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  • Don’t Let the Birds Build a Nest!

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  • Don’t Lose Your Focus

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    The temptation to control (making sure everything is done right) is stronger in leaders who forget their ultimate assignment. If leaders focus on church as an entity (building, services, program, events, etc.) more than on individual people in the congregation, those leaders will worry that the program won’t be as excellent as it could be [...]

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  • Don’t Settle

    Saturday, June 28th, 2008

    It’s never the case that we are beyond God’s restoration.

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  • Drifting Members

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    When members of a denomination (or church) begin to drift from the mainstream, it is usually due to one or both of two factors:
    1. The members have a distinct calling or vision of their own that supersedes their connection to the denomination (or church). Fulfilling that vision becomes more important than working toward the denominational [...]

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  • Dripping With Control

    Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

    Some of the sweetest people are just dripping with control

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  • Drive Out the Squatters!

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  • Eager for Correction

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    When people are not eager for correction themselves, they rarely maintain a good balance between mercy and judgment. Somehow, receiving correction myself makes me more merciful and understanding when I evaluate other people.

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  • Ears to Hear

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    Being baptized in the Holy Spirit gives you ears to hear

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  • Easter Answers a Lot

    Friday, April 18th, 2008

    Everybody has questions—those big, way-deep-down-in-the-soul kinds of questions about life, death, religion and all that. Answers to those questions (we all ask the same basic ones) become our beliefs.
    Here are a few of the Top 20:

    Who am I, and why am I alive?
    What does this life mean?
    Is there another life after this one?
    What is the [...]

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  • Easter in the Old Testament

    Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

    And the closest relative said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I jeopardize my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself; you may have my right of redemption, for I cannot redeem it.” Ruth 4:3-6
    In the beautiful account of Ruth, God revealed His heart for mankind centuries before He actually fulfilled His promise to [...]

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  • Easter Life

    Saturday, April 19th, 2008

    When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
    “Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?” (Hosea 13:14)
    The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But [...]

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  • Editor

    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

    Everyone has a differnet style.

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  • Effective Ministry

    Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

    First, let’s remember that effective ministry, like God’s ministry to us, must always blend kindness and truth.

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  • Empowering People

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Avoiding mistakes is not as important as empowering people enough to make mistakes.

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  • Empty Existence

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    If the dead are not raised, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.’ 1 Corinthians 15:22
    Most people have heard of existentialism, though very few people really understand its basic philosophical tenets (beliefs). It begins with the notion that the universe (and life in general) has no meaning or purpose. It just exists as [...]

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  • Enemy Distortions

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  • Enlarging the Right Stuff in Us

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    God designed us to relate to Him, to fit so well together that nothing could ever separate us from His love. Worship certainly is God’s due; even if it did nothing for us, it would still be the single most appropriate spiritual activity for every believer. But praise and worship dynamically expand our sense of [...]

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  • Entering His Courts with Praise

    Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

    As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, shouting:  “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory [...]

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  • Environment of Love and Acceptance

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Equipped for Solving Problems

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    Instead of simply giving people answers, give them principles so they will answer their own questions. Instead of resolving their crises, become proactive in providing tools so they are equipped to solve problems.

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  • Essence of Discipling

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Essence of Submission

    Monday, April 21st, 2008

    “Giving the Lord the place to tell us where we are wrong is the essence of submission.”

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  • Evaluating Staff for Hiring or Raising Salary

    Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

    Evaluating staff—especially when it comes to a time of transition—is NEVER easy.  Neither is it an exact science with formulas or equations.  Instead, the process is intuitive; something to mull over and weigh in our hearts.  I do believe the adage:  “What’s good for the staff person is what’s good for the church; and, what’s [...]

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  • Ever-Ready Battery People

    Friday, March 28th, 2008

    “But the Lord is with me like a dread champion; therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.”

    When you have someone in your life who is a leader/champion, they make you feel safe. They make you feel like, “Okay, it hasn’t been so good up to this point in time, but we are going to [...]

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  • Everything is Fine!

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  • Excising Evil

    Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

    Psalm 106:24-48

    They despised the pleasant land…and did not believe…but grumbled” (vs. 24-25).
    They joined themselves to Baal-Peor (v. 28-31).
    It went hard with Moses because they were rebellious (vs. 32-33).
    They served idols which became a snare to them (vs.34-36).
    Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power”(v. 42).
    They were rebellious in their counsel, and so [...]

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  • Experiencing Repentance

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    You know, the word, the notion of repenting, like the notion of converting, is all about exchanging. It is one of the most wonderful things that we get to bring our wrong and our sin and offer it up to the Lord, and in place of our sins, the Bible says, we get a [...]

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  • Expressions

    Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Expressions ”
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  • Extreme Vulnerability

    Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

    “In those moments of shock or great pummeling of the human soul, when we are disoriented in a state of emotional or spiritual shock, we are extremely vulnerable to suggestions being made to us that will sort out our lives and secure us for the future.”

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  • Fair-Weather Faith

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    Sometimes I think Christians forget that the power of God and the truth of the gospel are intended for very difficult times—it’s not just a fair-weather faith. It is in those times in our life when we have been shaken to the very core, when seemingly everything that we relied and trusted upon has been stripped away [...]

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  • Faith Conquers Fear

    Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

    Faith furthers God’s Kingdom, but the demonic realm is dominated by fear.

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  • Faith versus Speculation

    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

    1st Timothy 1 tells us that the furtherance of God’s Kingdom is always by faith, and faith is simply believing what God has told you. Speculation is wondering about things that God hasn’t said anything about, and it’s very dangerous to do. Within the realm of the demonic, there are many things we simply don’t [...]

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  • Feel Like a Flat Tire?

    Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

    God’s new covenant with us has a provision for disobedience

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  • Feeling Lifeless

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  • Finding a Way

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    My job as a leader is to make a way for people to follow. I have to always be thinking of where God’s called me, but I have to remember people in different stations in their spiritual life and find a way that can be navigated by everyone [...]

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  • Finding the Middle Ground

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    Some people are so concerned about being sensitive to the state of our society that they don’t want to offend anyone with something that smacks of religiousness. Rather than speaking the word of God, they come at people to try to enlist them in the kingdom by every manner of nice conversation—just with a lot [...]

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  • Fishers of Men

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Remember, when Jesus said to be fishers of men, He talked to people who used nets with which to fish; He did not talk to people who used a fishing pole.

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  • Fitting for Our Community

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    We should want to translate the message of the good news into familiar language and lifestyle examples fitting for our community. We must put the gospel into the language of people’s needs.

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  • Flapjacks or Provisions?

    Thursday, April 10th, 2008

    Think of yourself as going on this backpack journey with mules up into the mountains. You come to this trailhead called “church.” What do you really want from it? The trailhead cook who makes some really great flapjacks with sausage, bacon and lots of butter and syrup? Or, do you want to be given provisions [...]

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  • Focus Points for Church Leadership

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    INTRODUCTIONIn some religious circles people talk about a call on their life—a sense of mission and purpose, an assignment for how to direct and devote their energies.  A typical call might be into medical missions work, pastoral ministry, etc.  While I would never argue with anyone who spoke about a call on their life, I [...]

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  • Following Directions

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    We don’t want to miss God, so when lots of other people seem sure about the direction they are to take, we are tempted to abandon the uncertain directions in our own hearts in order to follow the more certain-seeming directions that the other groups are following.

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  • Following The One Who Leads Us

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    “For Thou art my rock and my fortress; For Thy name’s sake Thou wilt lead me and guide me”. PSALM 31:3
    “And I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, in paths they do not know I will guide them.  I will make darkness into light before them and rugged places into [...]

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  • For I Confess My Iniquity (Part 1)

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. Psalm 38:18
    Sin…that’s where things are not lined up the way they should be. In light of all our desire to do line up with the Lord and with one another, I thought we would benefit from reviewing these 10 definitions of our word to [...]

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  • For I Confess My Iniquity (Part 2)

    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

    I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. Psalm 38:18
    In the previous devotion I wrote to you about confession and what marks true confession. Today we’ll look at five more ways to translate confess:

    To predict—understand that what we sow we will reap; and we should be able to predict [...]

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  • For Our Benefit

    Monday, January 14th, 2008

    So I like to put it this way. God is kind of like the great MacGyver in the sky who will make use of absolutely any situation and particular event in your life and it is all for the purpose of shaping us, changing us and developing us.

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  • Forgiveness and Deliverance

    Sunday, June 8th, 2008

    Forgiveness & Deliverance

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  • Formula For Sin

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

    Using religious formulas or practices without obedience and fooling ourselves into thinking we can make up for not obeying with oaths or rituals is a sign of witchcraft.

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  • Fortifying My Marriage

    Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

    Adopting the Position of Marriage
    I. Face to Face
    A. Moses knew God face to face.
    There is a power in knowing the person you’re married to. This centers around talking – communication – the courage to talk through to resolution.
    B. Naked and Not Ashamed
    People keep changing; you can only keep up with the changes by not allowing [...]

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  • Freedom and Independence

    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

    “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge… “ Isaiah 5:13
    How many times, as we look back on mistakes we’ve made, have we uttered those exasperated words: “If only I had known?”
    If only we had known the long-term consequences of choices we made; if only we had been aware of certain [...]

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  • From His Wife

    Friday, April 25th, 2008

    Between husbands and wives, a little encouragement goes a long way

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  • Fruitful Correction

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008

    But when we do speak any kind of correction into someone’s life, it must always be for the purpose of them overcoming whatever the distortion or the bondage is.

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  • Functioning Tools

    Friday, August 8th, 2008

    Functioning tools

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  • Gathering a Team

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Enlisting the early attendees for the work of ministry service is crucial for a pioneer work because people want to give themselves to something.

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  • Gathering with a Purpose

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    We find our spiritual significance not through collecting people, but in gathering them for the purpose of sending them out to replicate their experience with us.

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  • Get Together

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    From God has a Plan ‘B’ for Your Marriage

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  • Get Your Tool Belt

    Thursday, August 7th, 2008

    Timely and True Spiritual – Quickquote 5

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  • Getting a Burden

    Thursday, October 16th, 2008

    “Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to one another.” Galatians 6:2-5
    How do we each decide upon what particular [...]

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  • Getting Them On

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  • Gift of an Exhorter

    Monday, July 21st, 2008

    When your life is pretty imbalanced and you don’t know whether you should do this or do that, an exhorter comes along and gives you advice or counsel that is like adding one more weight to the right side of things and it is enough to get things going in the right direction.

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  • Gird our Loins!

    Monday, April 28th, 2008

    If we don’t gird our loins with truth, we will inevitably conceive and produce that which is not true.

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  • Giver Gives In…

    Sunday, February 17th, 2008

    The giver loves to give in secret, but they come up with all kinds of corny plans for how to do it. Maybe they see you’re the tires on your car are a little bit bald. The givers will go out, jack your car up, and change your tires, and you won’t even [...]

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  • Giving Back

    Friday, August 8th, 2008

    Giving back

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  • God Has a Way

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  • God is For Us…

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    God was in the mood for us…

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  • God is My Portion

    Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

    The Bible and the people in it are no strangers to depression. Neither do they paint an all rosy picture of life with our problems and discouragements. Misery and heartache stem from many different roots; rebellion, victimization, deferred hope, physical or emotional disappointment, etc. But their ultimate source is in the death that invaded our [...]

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  • God Knows Best

    Monday, October 6th, 2008

    I shall give thanks to Thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn Thy righteous judgments. Psalms 119:7
    The Psalmist here speaks of a heart which is made upright or set in order as a result of having learned God’s judgments. God’s judgments or rulings correspond to particular circumstances or events. They are absolutely correct, true, [...]

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  • God of Change

    Saturday, June 28th, 2008

    Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever. Hebrews 13:8
    Everyone who truly confronts God is forced, ultimately, to confront themselves. God never changes; He does not shift about in who and what He is like some wavering shadow or illusion. When we meet Him, we meet Him. We cannot really claim to [...]

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  • God Regards Us

    Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

    Enjoying Your Journey with God – Quickquote 5

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  • God Wants to Give

    Saturday, January 26th, 2008

    God’s heart is never to try to get something from us. His heart is always to want to give to us.

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  • God Wants YOU

    Friday, June 13th, 2008

    God wants you. He delights in you. You don’t have to be like everybody else.

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  • God’s Favorite Implements

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    So, what does God want to do with us? Simply put, He wants to change us and use us. You might say that He wants to position us, which involves a certain degree of timing and physical placement. But rather than thinking in terms of “being in the right place at the right time,” we [...]

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  • God’s Goal for Each Person

    Sunday, August 17th, 2008

    The goal of one-to-one ministry is rather to see each individual person fully restored to everything that God wanted for them to be, and it helps us if we will remember that. No matter how broken a human being is, if you look at them with a hopefulness in your heart, if you look at [...]

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  • God’s Hope, God’s Heart for You

    Monday, December 15th, 2008

    The first Sunday of December always seems to catapult me into the Christmas spirit — that inner feeling of warmth at the hearth of a roaring fire; the tunes of Christmas carols dancing across my mind; the fragrance of bayberry candles; glimpses of twinkling lights, mistletoe, jolly men with long white beards, and, of course, [...]

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  • God’s Invitation to Us

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • God’s Mercy is Greater

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    The thing that keeps more people in our churches from becoming leaders is that they believe they are unworthy. We have to convince them that God’s mercy is greater than all their sin. A merciful and kind God chooses to use anyone who is willing.

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  • God’s Motive

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  • God’s Purpose for Us

    Saturday, January 5th, 2008

    God isn’t somebody who settles for you. He doesn’t have to learn to love you.

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  • God’s Purpose for Your Life

    Sunday, September 14th, 2008

    We are not talking about a specific event that God caused you to be born so that you would be on the corner 177th and Water Street, and you would be able to help that poor lady before she got hit by a car. God’s purpose for your life or my life is that we [...]

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  • God’s Word Frees Our Hearts

    Monday, May 5th, 2008

    God’s Word frees us from misconceptions and lies that rattle around in our minds, and without His word in our hearts we have no defense against these lies until they become too huge to deal with easily.

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  • God’s Word Reveals Our Inheritance

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    God’s Word is meant for bringing judgment; not to condemn, but to evaluate or sort out. It uncovers issues in our lives that are not right as well as the revealing to us the riches of God’s inheritance.

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  • God-Given Wisdom

    Sunday, July 20th, 2008

    The Bible tells us in Psalm 51 that God desires truth in our innermost being. And in that place of integrity in our heart, God will give us wisdom. It is with our integrity that we will know how to shepherd people, how to tend them, how to be with them.

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  • Got a Need?

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    Got a Need?

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  • Got a Word?

    Thursday, June 5th, 2008

    Got a word?

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  • Grabbing Truth

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    “The Holy Spirit translates spiritual truth and language down into something that you and I can grab hold of.”

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  • Great Addiction of Ministry

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    It’s my dream to get every single person in our church will ultimately become a leader of a small group of people where they know the joy of discipling and nurturing other people. This is the great addiction of ministry, seeing change in other people. I don’t want [...]

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  • Great Grace For Not-So-Great People

    Monday, October 13th, 2008

    For God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5:5bGrace is one of those words whose meaning is so incredible and far-reaching that our minds almost refuse to go to all the work of alerting us to its full implications when we see it or hear it. Grace. The [...]

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  • Great Trap

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  • Greater Scope of Warring Spiritually

    Sunday, July 13th, 2008

    Warring spiritually has more to do with a posture we take to resist what the enemy is doing and to embrace what God is doing. It is far more encompassing and broader in its scope than simply doing a list of a few things.

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  • Greater than Growth

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    The goal of the church is not growth. The goal of the church is to be the most effective tool that it can be to accomplish the purposes of the Kingdom, and I want to have an ambition that’s a lot greater, spiritually speaking, than just growing.

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  • Green Pastures and Quiet Waters

    Saturday, July 19th, 2008

    “He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.” Psalm 23:2
    Even when we’re tempted to rush around, our Shepherd will make us take time out to rest where all the food we need grows around us.  We don’t have to be foraging about like ravenous desert foxes; if we will [...]

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  • Guided by the Desire to Love

    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

    Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. But one who prophesies speaks to men for edi­fication and exhortation and con­solation. 1 Corinthians 14:1-3
    These [...]

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  • Guilt by History

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    Guilt by History

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  • Hanging in There

    Thursday, May 10th, 2007

    Hanging in There

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  • Having the Ears to Hear

    Friday, April 30th, 2010

    Usually, if there is one person who has the courage to speak to us directly about something disturbing [that what we said or did], there are others who either didn’t know how to bring the issue up or who simply were too afraid to say anything.

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  • He Brings it Forth

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  • He Loves Us

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  • He Never Overlooks Us

    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

    Here is an excerpt from Daniel’s book “Enjoying Your Journey with God.”

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  • Healthy Maturity in God

    Thursday, February 28th, 2008

    Part of healthy maturity in God is coming to a sense of just resting in who He’s made you to be. But that’s different than defining yourself.

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  • Heart of Counseling

    Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

    Most people have heard of Solomon’s wisdom even if they do not realize that he wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, two Books in the Bible that are filled with practical advice and counsel for almost any imaginable subject.The Queen of Sheba (a country at least 1,200 miles southeast of Jerusalem, thought to be modern-day Yemen) heard [...]

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  • Heart of Counseling

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    1 Kings 3:6-9, 10:1-10Most people have heard of Solomon’s wisdom even if they do not realize that he wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, two Books in the Bible that are filled with practical advice and counsel for almost any imaginable subject.
    The Queen of Sheba (a country 1,200 miles southeast of Jerusalem, in modern-day Yemen) heard of [...]

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  • Help Your Wife

    Sunday, September 21st, 2008

    To help your wife

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  • Helping Others Embrace the Call

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Church leaders can also fall prey to the myth that only a few are “called to the ministry.” Actually, the entire church is already “the few,” and it makes no sense to reduce our ministry numbers even further. Since people will naturally slot toward “least resistance” and comfort themselves with vague thoughts of not being [...]

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  • Herald Angels, Herald People

    Sunday, December 21st, 2008

    The familiar Christmas Carol begins “Hark, the Herald Angels sing, ‘Glory to the newborn King!’”
    Fully translated, it is saying, “Listen, pay close attention, alert yourself. The angels who announced the royal message, the angels who run ahead as proclaimers of the King to usher in His presence and His decrees—the official bringers of the [...]

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  • Here on this Earth

    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

    Why God doesn’t send us to heaven right after we get saved

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  • Hey, You First!

    Monday, January 21st, 2008

    If you are coming to a narrow passage way and it looks a little ominous and very dark and foreboding and there is a whole group of you and nobody really wants to be the first to go into that dark little passage way…hey! Just find an apostle in your group and say, “Hey! Why [...]

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  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Happy Easter!

    Thursday, April 24th, 2008

    If you had the chance to join the Coastlands family for their pancake breakfast and massive egg hunt, or if you had a similar celebration with friends at home, you’ve witnessed the sheer delight with which those little kids plucked the red, green, pink and blue plastic eggs from their “hiding places.”  Each egg with [...]

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  • High Hopes

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    We try to love and accept people where they are, but hold out high hope for their future.

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  • Hints

    Monday, April 28th, 2008

    The messes that people get into, the struggles that they go through, and the “stuff” that is visible within their lives can actually often be clues as to what their ministry is.

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  • Hints For Understanding Difficult Passages

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    All of us have encountered verses and statements in the Bible that confuse or alarm us because they seem to be saying something that sounds so unlike the Lord, so different than how we have experienced Him in our personal life.  When that happens, what can we do to at least begin to look at [...]

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  • Holding on the Right Way

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Some people are better “held” by having responsibilities to do things, having something given to them to actually accomplish. Other people, at different settings in their life, are better held by something that blesses and encourages them.

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  • Holy Spirit Leads Us

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008

    Christ doesn’t really live inside you. Jesus is seated at the right side of the Father. The part of God that lives in you, that makes Christ alive to you, is the Holy Spirit and He does want to lead us in the way we should go.

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  • Holy Spirit’s Counsel

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    My friends, there is a dimension of reality that is beyond things that we naturally know and understand. And it is such a tragedy that so many Christians having being born again in the spiritual dimension, after becoming alive in their spirit and now having the Spirit of God dwelling inside of them, it [...]

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  • Holy Spirit’s Intelligence

    Monday, July 14th, 2008

    If you want to look at it this way, the Holy Spirit will make you a whole lot smarter than you are right now. Is that good news or what? What are they telling us about our brain cells? How many brain cells are we losing everyday? It’s frightening for those [...]

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  • Honesty or Truth?

    Sunday, March 30th, 2008

    “Being honest with your feelings is not the same thing as being true.”

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  • Hope for a Brighter Future

    Friday, June 6th, 2008

    Since so many of God’s ways and thoughts are wildly different from ours, it shouldn’t be a surprise to discover that He looks at very different things than we do.
    For instance, people tend to look at the “outside appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). Because we are unable to see [...]

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  • Hope for All

    Monday, December 15th, 2008

    Hope for all

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  • Hot and Cold Leading

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  • How I Study My Bible

    Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

    While pastoring at The Coastlands or in the days since then while traveling around the world, many people ask me how I know what to teach on. I do not mean to imply that my personal approach to the Bible ought to be adopted as a standard; however, I can give you some idea of [...]

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  • How to Be Filled with the Spirit

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    Curious about the baptism in the Holy Spirit? Daniel guides you in this short audio clip from the series, “The Holy Spirit Demystified”.

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  • How to Hear the Lord

    Saturday, April 21st, 2007

    The more you have of God’s word in you, the more you will hear from the Lord.

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  • How to Stimulate New Growth

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

    I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine-dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. John 15:1-2
    Only as we make constant choices to live in Jesus and abide in His words of life [...]

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  • How We Deprive Others of the Truth

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    What we have studied is not always the same as what Jesus has been teaching us; hence, we end up artificially separating what we think people ought to learn from what Jesus thinks we ought to learn. If His pattern for instruction is to teach others by first teaching us, then if we do not [...]

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  • Huge Victories and Battles

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    “You don’t get huge victories without huge battles.”

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  • Humble and Ready

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    We must be careful to remain profoundly humble in our convictions and be ever ready to admit that we have heard Him correctly.

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  • Humble Servant

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    The interest of a server and helper is not in whatever particular assignment they are given, it is simply interest in an ultimate victory or accomplishment of a much greater good. This is one reason why the server / helper tends to be a little on the invisible side. When they are helping [...]

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  • I Am Becoming

    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

    <i>By the grace of God I am what I am…</i> 1 Corinthians 15:10
    One of the most basic questions of the human psyche is “Who am I, anyway?” Here are some additional thoughts on the subject.
    Having a healthy perspective on who you are requires an understanding of several truths:
    1) God’s primary interest is in you. [...]

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  • I Blew It!

    Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

    Be released from being guilty

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  • I Feel Like a Failure!

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  • I Want What You Want

    Friday, May 18th, 2007

    The best way to resist the attack of the enemy

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  • I Would Do it All Over Again

    Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

    I recently told a group of leaders in Wroclaw, Poland, that nothing in my life has caused me more pain and sorrow than pastoring. But, nothing except my family has given me more joyful satisfaction. If I suddenly became young, I would do it all over again—even knowing about eventual betrayal and the suffering that [...]

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  • I’m Goin’ Down

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  • I’m Stuck!

    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

    ‘That’s just the way that I am’ is not how God made you

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  • Image Making

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    Image Making

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  • Impact an Unseen Dimension

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  • Impatient with God

    Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

    How often have I impatiently decided that instead of waiting for a God who is charting my life, I want a god who will let me get on with the next thing I want?

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  • Importance of Trust

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  • Imprints of Evil Presences

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    God is often trying to warn us about problems that will surely develop if we just look the other way. The Enemy counts on the fact that Christians value being polite more than being alert to “secretly introduced falsehoods” (2 Peter 2:1).  Intimidation, uneasiness, confusion, fear, agitation—these may be the imprints of evil presences on [...]

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  • Imprisoned

    Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

    This is a picture of our lives. Innocent and guilty people ending up in the same exile. Things you did and things somebody else did putting you in a very small prison place.

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  • Impulses

    Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

    It’s important to follow and obey the Holy Spirit while prophesying.

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  • In His Word

    Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

    Three things that will happen if you stay in God’s word

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  • In Love

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    In love, God sacrificed His Son; in love, Jesus surrendered His life. In love, Jesus sends us, empowered by His Spirit, to those who do not yet know about Him.

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  • Incredible Implements

    Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

    Incredible Implements

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  • Individual Affect

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Despite all the incredible large-group happenings in the body of Christ, the call to affect people with the Gospel—the mandate to make disciples—is given to individuals—not to movements or to revivals. Most of the talk about what God is doing in the world today has little bearing on what He is doing in our local [...]

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  • Infecting Our Culture

    Thursday, October 30th, 2008

    Did you know that in America over 90% of the people believe in a god?
    Instead of being “good Christians” saying, “but they don’t believe in God in the right way,” I really believe we could offer people something simple like Paul said, “I perceive that you have a relationship with God.” What’s He like? They [...]

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  • Infecting our Culture

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    We who understand the truth of the word of God can find ways to hear what people are saying and match it up with what the Lord has said. We can use music, literature, and movies in exactly the same way that Paul used scripture to speak to the Jews.
    Let us cease being afraid of [...]

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  • Inner Wars: Fear

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    INTRODUCTION
    Even though the INNER WARS take place beneath the observable surface of our lives – in our emotions, thoughts and impressions – they will usually manifest themselves in the way we live life. Few INNER FOES manifest themselves more noticeably than fear. It grips our minds and compels us to do things that are otherwise [...]

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  • Inspiring Others

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    The job of a spiritual leader is to inspire other people to be willing to be leaders. Telling people what to do doesn’t make them a leader; they must be placed in situations where they have to cry out to God and then we help them by showing them what we have learned to do [...]

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  • Instruction is Not Reproach

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Instructions for Uncertain Times

    Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

    Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord, how then can man understand His way? Proverbs 20:24
    This verse captures one of the most comforting concepts in the Bible. It is all about God’s sovereignty, and how He uses His everywhereness (omnipresence) and His allknowingness (omniscience) and His allpowerfulness (omnipotence) to guide us through life. He gets [...]

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  • Integrity and Passion

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Without integrity and an earnest passion to be perpetually confronted with his own shortcomings, David could not hope to lead his people.

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  • Intentionally Discipled

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    The church was too large and Pastor Jack was too busy to allow me much time alone with him; 90% of what I learned from him came via sermons and real-life examples. He never intentionally discipled me, but I intentionally got discipled by him.

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  • Intimidating Spirit

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    You will find in your encounter with the spirit of Jezebel that it is a very, very intimidating spirit. It will make you afraid. It will bring all sorts [...]

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  • Intriguing the World

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    Sad to say that 21st Century Christians, for the most part, expect and hope that people will get saved as a result of what we say to them or by some lecture that they get presented with, rather than from our lifestyle of generosity, kindness and mercy, where they are intrigued by seeing thats “God is [...]

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  • Introduction to Deuteronomy

    Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

    Mini (Many) Themes of Deuteronomy
    Usually when we study the Bible, we do so a passage at a time, looking at and reflecting on words, phrases and individual verses in that passage. Many rich and helpful truths are missed when we read too quickly over the detailed aspects of a story or a speech in the [...]

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  • Invest in People

    Thursday, March 20th, 2008

    Leadership concentrates on the whole relationship process, not just the decision point. We must invest in people, contributing positively so they willingly decide to follow us and ultimately the Lord. The measure of a leader is not just who moves ahead, but who is able to take people with them.

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  • Investing in People

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008

    Leaders are not sent from heaven. Leaders are not made in the prayer closet. Leaders are made by the ongoing investment of my life into the lives of other people.

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  • Invisible Realm

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  • Invited Ones

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Biblical language defines and portrays church with fascinating differences from how our culture depicts it. For instance, the New Testament word church is closer to our word congregation, and it literally means “called out, invited ones”—those who, after sending back their RSVP, are on their way to a gathering point to meet up with their [...]

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  • Involve Everyone

    Friday, May 2nd, 2008

    When everyone in the church is doing what they were designed to do, the whole body gets built up in love.

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  • Isn’t Everyone Like This?

    Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

    Who you are and the ministry that you have should be so interlaced with your personality and with your being that it does not seem like any big deal when you are being the way you are supposed to be. It doesn’t even strike you as being unusual and you sort of think, “Well, isn’t [...]

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  • It Doesn’t Work!

    Saturday, May 10th, 2008

    It doesn’t work!

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  • It’s a Spirit Thing

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  • It’s Not Just a Name

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Once I knew I was going to pioneer, I got real serious about Bible reading, “Oh God! I’m going to be going. Are You going with me?” I wanted assurance, so I read and read and read. I kept coming across this expression in the Book of Isaiah, “the coastlands.” And I thought, “What a [...]

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  • Jail Diets: Past and Present

    Friday, August 29th, 2008

    “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoner…” Isaiah 61:1

    On my last day of a long-ago trip to Holland, [...]

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  • Jesus Loves Me, This I Know!

    Saturday, October 11th, 2008

    “…for the Bible tells me so.”
    The whole psalm, Psalm 119, is about God’s Word–what it does in our lives, how we can receive its wisdom, and what blessings attend the way of anyone who follows it.
    Our life here would be hopelessly lost without the written Word of God to guide our steps and judge our [...]

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  • Jesus Restores

    Thursday, February 28th, 2008

    People’s lives are hard enough; they don’t need religious people making their lives more miserable. Jesus came to rescue and restore them. If we feel the need to show people how wrong they are, we are really just insecure in our own lives.

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  • Jesus Went to Hell

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  • Jezebel and the Spirit of Witchcraft

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so [...]

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  • Job of Church

    Monday, April 14th, 2008

    The job of church is to mature and develop, to train and nurture every single person so that they can be completed fully in their life in the way God designed. In addition, church should give us not just one little angle on the Kingdom, but so many different aspects of all that is true [...]

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  • Job of Completing People

    Monday, June 2nd, 2008

    The risk you take of empowering and releasing people to do things, at which they will make mistakes, is actually better for a congregation than trying to control things and keeping people from making mistakes. For in my opinion, the real job of the ministry is not getting the job done. The real job of [...]

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  • Join the Brigade

    Saturday, April 5th, 2008

    “We have been invited to join the glorious bucket brigade in the kingdom to put out Hell’s fire in people round about us.”

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  • Judging Others

    Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

    “Do not judge lest you be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? [...]

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  • Keep Going

    Monday, September 8th, 2008

    Keep going

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  • Keep Remembering

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  • Keeping the Sabbath

    Friday, October 3rd, 2008

    John 5 tells the story of how religious people criticized Jesus for violating the Sabbath by healing the man who had been sick for 38 years and having him carry his pallet. Jesus told the man what to do, and he did it; God the Father told Jesus what to do, and He did it.
    What [...]

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  • Kept Close

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008

    You are not left at a distance from an exhorter; you are made to feel so very close to them. You feel like, “Oh wow! Ok! We can do it!” It is a kind of feeling that “We are in this thing together.” It doesn’t say, “Get your act together.” [...]

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  • Kids

    Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

    The degree of a person’s love for the Lord can be found in the degree to which they instruct their children in the things of God.

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  • Kindly Oil

    Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

    “Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies. Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me; it is oil upon the head; do not let my head refuse it…” Psalm 141:4-5Evil things and [...]

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  • Labor for Others

    Monday, January 28th, 2008

    One-to-one ministry is rigorous ministry. It will exhaust you. But what better use of our life than to know that our labors and our striving have not just been for ourselves–they have been for others. Lives get changed in the Kingdom when people who care enough and love enough to invest themselves will do that, [...]

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  • Laboring for Others

    Saturday, June 7th, 2008

    One-to-one ministry is rigorous ministry. It will exhaust you. But what better use of our life than to know that our labors and our striving have not just been for ourselves–they have been for others. Lives get changed in the Kingdom when people who care enough and love enough to invest themselves will do that, [...]

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  • Launching into New Ministry

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    Just as households are supposed to produce and nurture children through the years until they reach the point when they launch out to establish households of their own, so, too, should churches mend and train believers to the point where those believers launch into new ministry that may be beyond the walls of the church [...]

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  • Laying Foundations

    Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

    Apostles have a way of laying foundations so that other things and other people can build upon.

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  • Leading Out of Love

    Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

    Excerpt taken from Daniel’s Travel Journal: Colombia (Bogota), 2010: Day 05
    Real leaders lead out of love, and do their best to prove to their congregation that the leader loves them deeply. That led me to the contrast between the authority to build people up, as opposed to authority that knocks/keeps them down. My climactic conclusion [...]

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  • Leaving Behind a Wake

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    If you want to experience the prompting of God, you have to get about the business that He said you should be about as you go into the entire world. As you are about the process of going through life, be sure that the thing that captures your attention, the one focus that you have [...]

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  • Let His Word Grow

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  • Let it Go Cheerfully

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    Instead of telling people we really need them, show them we do. Have the courage to not do something if you don’t have someone to do it. Instead of scrambling to do it ourselves or showing irritation that no one has made themselves available, we can cheerfully let it go and communicate that’s it’s okay. [...]

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  • Let’s Be Used By God

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Let’s be used by God

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  • Life After a Big Mistake

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    The God who sends you into exile; the God who allows consequences to come to your life is the God who already has plans for the end of your exile and for continuing to do you good.

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  • Life in the “FAST” Lane

    Friday, June 27th, 2008

    But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face so that you may not be seen fasting by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. Matthew 6:17,18
    Fasting for many of you this will be a new experience which you may [...]

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  • Life’s Dress Rehearsal

    Sunday, October 26th, 2008

    “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD [...]

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  • Lining Up With Him

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    If we will concentrate on lining up with His ways in our heart, we will find a natural syncopation with His intent and timing.

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  • Listen for His Voice

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    If we listen carefully enough and avoid the presumption of thinking our training, experience or knowledge alone can tell us what to do, we will hear what He is telling us about each pioneer church.

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  • Listening to God

    Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

    If we want to have the Spirit of God coursing

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  • Little Things

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    God is not interested in the big things you are doing as much as He is interested in the little things you are obeying.

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  • Living Out Obedience

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Living Through the “Second Great Depression”

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    What if we took another approach today? What if we redoubled our passion to live according to the economics of Heaven, rather than those of earth? What if we looked for opportunities to be generous, to give without regard for our own need? Wouldn’t it be incredible to shape the way our children view finances—and [...]

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  • Living with the Dream

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    Sadly, most pastors don’t ever think about people leaving their church unless there is some kind of disaster.
    If we think that we have a perpetual program rather than a terminal program it will change what we do. If you presume or hope that everybody in your church today will always be in your church, there’s [...]

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  • Lone Navigator

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    Lone Navigator

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  • Long-Term Resistance

    Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

    And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. And they departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them all along the [...]

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  • Longing for Deliverance

    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

    Deliverance is salvation. Deliverance is

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  • Look at You!

    Monday, July 7th, 2008

    The Lord is our righteousness who brings restoration

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  • Looking with Hope

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008

    People have a variety of spiritual gifts. Look for their potential. What would happen in three to five years if they were radically obedient? No matter how broken they are, look at them with hope.

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  • Lord, Be Merciful to Me

    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    Remember the man in the Bible who was tormented by a legion of demons and still fell at Jesus’ feet? No matter how bound, tormented, confused or ruined someone is, they can always fall on their knees before Jesus and cry, “Lord, be merciful toward me.” It is the refusal to fall at Jesus’ feet [...]

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  • Love and Respect

    Friday, February 8th, 2008

    People will love and respect leaders who love and respect them.

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  • Love Isn’t Finished

    Sunday, June 1st, 2008

    Timely and True Spirituals – Quickquote 2

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  • Love Isn’t Generic

    Saturday, August 9th, 2008

    Enjoying Your Journey with God

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  • Love Test

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    Love is the goal. Ask yourself, “Do I feel more like I am able to love people more as a result of the prophetic word I’ve heard, or not? If the answer is no, then it isn’t truly spiritual.

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  • Love’s Evidence

    Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

    In a mature church, love ought to be the thing that you’re most struck by when you come in. How many people walking into a church building say, ‘Oooo…I feel good teaching here! This is such a great teaching place. I can sense it.’ That isn’t what people are looking for. They should be able [...]

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  • Loving Touch

    Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

    Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4b
    Many people have difficulty sensing the Lord’s presence in their lives, especially in particular situations or moments. God’s movings and workings in our lives can sometimes be so hidden that we fail to notice just how much he has been providing for our needs, giving us [...]

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  • Loving Warning

    Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

    For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His lovingkindness. For He does not afflict willingly, or grieve the sons of man. Lamentations 3:32,33God has absolutely no pleasure, no delight in those times when He must, as a faithful and loving Father, afflict us and allow us to experience difficulties. He [...]

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  • Magi’s Longing

    Saturday, December 20th, 2008

    What anticipation those travelers from distant lands must have had knowing that their search was nearly at an end. Although we do not know where the magi came from, it is clear from the scriptures that they had journeyed some distance to Jerusalem. A new star had appeared in the sky, marking the fulfillment of [...]

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  • Making a Place

    Thursday, April 24th, 2008

    Discipling isn’t about keeping people in their place; it’s about making a place for them.

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  • Making Great People

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Perhaps one other thing I could add to the significance of leadership certainly is that every great purpose accomplished in the kingdom ought to be making “great people” in the process. If you’re only making great people and not accomplishing anything, I don’t know what you’ve done. And [...]

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  • Many Thousands of Years Into it All

    Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

    Centuries. Hundreds of thousands of days. Scores upon scores of decades and lifetimes. And God is still up to something new. His purposes and intentions–to do us good and draw us to Himself–never change, but His service is so personalized that He does exactly what needs doing at precisely the right time in His scheme [...]

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  • Mature Christian

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  • Measure of a Leader

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    Ultimately, we can say that the quality of leadership can be discerned by the quality of the followers because every great purpose that’s accomplished in the Kingdom ought to be making great people in the process. A significant leader takes people into new understanding and new dimensions.

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  • Mega-Church Model

    Friday, June 18th, 2010

    The mega-church model, dependent upon unusually gifted (CEO-type)leaders, simply isn’t a possibility for most pastors-to-be. Relatively speaking, there are very, very few pastors who lead mega-churches, so we must assume most pastors are not (for whatever reason) “capable, gifted, called or blessed” enough to have such churches. BUT (and it’s a big BUT), this rare [...]

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  • Men…What Women Want

    Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

    Wives love the statement: “You were on my mind, and I want you to know that.”

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  • Merciful Pursuit

    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

    Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6 Contrary to how most people feel, David explains his confidence and sense of security. He is not plagued with fear, doubt or uncertainty about the ultimate outcome of his [...]

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  • Mercy of God

    Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

    Mercy of God

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  • Mercy Triumphs

    Monday, April 21st, 2008

    Never forget, God’s truth is always spoken as an act of mercy. It is a longing that God has to do people good. It is a desire He has for their lives to truly work the way that it’s supposed to work. This is why mercy will triumph over judgment. So we have [...]

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  • Mighty Things

    Monday, January 14th, 2008

    Mighty Things

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  • Ministry Mentors

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Ministry mentors try to pass along tricks of their trade by using ministry situations the way a master-craftsman trains an apprentice as part of his promise to the aspiring craftsman: “someday-you’ll-have-your-own-shop!” With time and skill, the apprentice is supposed to have hope that he or she can do the same work as the mentor—but with [...]

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  • Ministry Model

    Friday, March 28th, 2008

    I think it’s far more effective in one-to-one ministry to look to the model that God presents. His model is simple: be there so that people can really pour out their hearts. Listen to the things that they say, but don’t necessarily answer them about the specific questions that they’re asking.

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  • Ministry that You Are

    Saturday, June 7th, 2008

    I am not interested in sharing with you these kinds of spiritual ministries in an effort to pigeon hole exactly who and what you are. We are not dealing with a kind of Christian horoscope!
    There is no “best ministry.” There is no right ministry. There is just the ministry that you are, and God [...]

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  • Misshapen Theology

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Our misshapen theology urges us to look for problems external to ourselves. We begin to talk about commitment and use expressions like, “You need to be more committed” to beat our sheep and drive them from one barren pasture to another.

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  • Models of Mentoring

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    A mentor does more than teach what that mentor is learning; he or she also teaches others to obey in the same way the mentor is obeying.
    Doctrine and obedience is not the same thing. Teaching someone a truth is not the same as teaching the person to obey that truth.
    The academic model presumes that learning [...]

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  • More or Less: The War

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    “God’s heart is to do you good. He wants you to come out with more at the end of the day than you started the day with. The enemy of your soul wants you to come out with less.”

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  • More Than a Rational God

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    We are an empirical culture, and we are a rational culture. If it doesn’t make sense rationally, of course, we throw it out. We come out with great theological statements about God being a rational God. I’m sure He’s pleased to hear that. We disallow anything that we cannot explain. Unfortunately, most Western cultures require [...]

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  • More than Fireworks

    Friday, July 4th, 2008

    “…and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You shall become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of [...]

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  • Most Spiritual People on the Block

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Here’s My Dream: I picture a beautiful little suburban street with some family in my church moving into this place. (I can see the moving van pulling up and they’re moving in.) My dream is for that family, no matter who they are, to be the most spiritual people [...]

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  • Motto for Manhood

    Friday, June 20th, 2008

    It happened again this last week. Yet another man told me of his fatherless childhood and his subsequent uncertainties about how to act like a man. Like the others, he felt crippled and shy—awkward with himself and with his very awkwardness.
    Like its physical counterpart of going through puberty and reach­ing anatomical manhood, the pas­sage from [...]

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  • Moving in the Miraculous

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    If we want to function in the miraculous lets first learn to function in the mundane

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  • Mustard Seed

    Friday, March 23rd, 2007

    Small Keys Unlock Big Doors

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    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    Mustard Seed

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  • My Main Goal for All Ministry

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Your philosophy of ministry (i.e., how you think about ministry) also includes the goal for ministry. My main goal for all ministry is at least two-generational; in other words, I want people who observe or experience ministry to be able to do the same ministry to others. I want ministry to be “performed” by mentors, [...]

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  • My Way

    Saturday, May 17th, 2008

    How to walk in the opposite spirit of control

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  • Mysticism

    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

    Mysticism

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  • Natural Mind

    Saturday, April 12th, 2008

    “Spiritual things are inherently unknowable to the natural mind.”

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  • Nature and Practice of Prophecy (with Russian translation)

    Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

    Join Daniel as he teaches on prophecy at a seminar in Russia.

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  • Nature of Demons

    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Nature of Demons ”
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  • Nature of Tongues

    Thursday, February 7th, 2008

    A spiritual language isn’t spiritual just because of the language. The fact that I can speak a language I haven’t learned naturally is what makes it a spiritual language and the point of speaking it is to edify others.

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  • Need for More Thought and Revelation

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Most of the time, pastoring calls for more thought and more revelation. I need spiritual discernment and sensible reasoning—balancing the natural and spiritual realms. Loving God with our heart, soul, mind and strength is a call for total integration—offering our whole being, with its multifaceted components, for service to the Lord. It’s like saying, “Walk [...]

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  • Needs of Husbands & Wives

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Needs of husbands & wives

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  • New Testament Spirituality

    Saturday, July 12th, 2008

    Biblical spirituality isn’t measured by strangeness or otherness; neither is it marked by physical gyrations, vocal affectations or arcane bits of knowledge about supposed “deeper things.” New Testament spirituality is indicated by the degree to which it ushers in the gracious workings of God.

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  • Newness of Life

    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

    Several aspects of a New Year can be troublesome—like the inclination to write last year when filling in the date on applications or checks, and then having to cross it out or get creative in transforming a “7” into an “8.” But by and large, we love the opportunity to start over and make “a [...]

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  • Not a Maintenance Roll

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  • Not Former Things

    Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

    “Behold, the former things have come to pass, now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Isaiah 42:9
    Again and again we are warned in the Scriptures not to “call to mind the former things” (Isaiah 43:18). As we prepare ourselves for what is ahead, we are tempted to [...]

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  • Not Just for the “Lead Few”

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    A misconception that many people have is that breakthroughs in the kingdom are accomplished by really extraordinary gifted or super spiritual saints. Instead, we see that the pattern that we find in the Bible is not that there are any “lead few” who do the bulk of the work, but rather there are countless thousands [...]

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  • Novices Learn

    Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

    We look for people who don’t really know what they are doing because novices tend to be much more desperate to learn than experts are.

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  • Obedience and Repentance

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Obeying and Believing

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    We’re supposed to obey commandments, but believe promises.

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  • Obliterating Spiritual Forces

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Years ago, the expression “out-of-this-world (man)” meant something truly fantastic and noteworthy. I worry that too many leaders are leading too many followers away from dynamic spiritual operations—where the truth of God’s Word and the witness of His Spirit collide with and obliterate the malevolent spiritual forces arrayed against us. Let us contend more for [...]

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  • Of Architects and Janitors

    Friday, July 18th, 2008

    Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27-28
    You have probably heard the joke about a pastor whose comment on how things were going in his church was something like: “If it wasn’t for the [...]

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  • Oh God, Help!

    Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

    God intends for ordinary, everyday people to be dynamically empowered by the Holy Spirit. Ninety percent of the time they don’t even know what they are doing, but when they just keep exclaiming, “Oh God, help!” and continuing to pray amazing things happen.

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  • Oh! What Am I Going to Learn Next?

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    I think sometimes one of our worst enemies to living the life that way that God wanted it lived is that we’ve heard so many things, we know so many things, and we have so many things figured out that there isn’t that “Oh! What am I going to learn next?”
    It’s not about coming and [...]

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  • Okay to Rest

    Friday, March 21st, 2008

    If we want to mobilize people in the future, it’s important that we communicate to them that it’s really okay to stop working now. We can continue to make a place for them as leaders even if they need a break to rest or regroup. By making sure they know that our focus is on [...]

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  • On Display

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    When the day comes when you’re all polished, we’d like to place you on display in the hopes that someone will see you and want to take you home to live in their house. You see, I think that’s what evangelism is all about; making such recovered, restored, [...]

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  • On My Birthday, I Thought of You!

    Thursday, June 5th, 2008

    You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
    Therefore, my beloved [...]

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  • On the Edge of Promise: Some Next Steps (Part 1)

    Monday, September 1st, 2008

    The LORD your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you [...]

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  • On the Edge of Promise: Some Next Steps (Part 2)

    Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

    The LORD your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you [...]

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  • One Anothers

    Friday, May 2nd, 2008

    What we do as leaders has far more impact than what we say.

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  • One to Another

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts. Psalm 145:4
    Throughout the Bible we find many mentions of generations. Genealogies (who begat whom) not only give a sense of passing time but also alert us to the fact that God works through people—people with names, parents and children. Whenever you [...]

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  • Ongoing Optimism

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  • Ongoing Process of Salvation

    Saturday, October 25th, 2008

    Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the [...]

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  • Only One Name You Need to Know

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    Sometimes when you are growing in discernment, you won’t always know what to call something. You need not feel badly because you can’t label it as the spirit of such [...]

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  • Open Love

    Saturday, August 30th, 2008

    Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. Proverbs 27:6
    The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel. Proverbs 12:15
    God intends for us to experience love.
    We were created as an overflowing expression of His [...]

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  • Opening Up Our Lives

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    The best way to teach obedience is by example—opening our lives to others—enable them to observe what God is doing in our lives, and to see how we are responding to His workings. This means becoming vulnerable and honest about the true issues of our lives. Usually, opening our lives entails sharing historical sketches and [...]

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  • Optimized and Utilized

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    As I always told my children in their academic pursuits, “Of all people, we who name Jesus as our Lord, ought to make the most of those qualities He has created in us; our “brains’ ought to be used to the utmost, and our personalities ought to shine the brightest. Every talent we have should [...]

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  • Our Anointing

    Sunday, September 28th, 2008

    Thou hast anointed my head with oil… Psalm 23:5b
    You are anointed by God.
    Anointing with oil was a common practice in Bible days, and it was done as a symbolic act of consecration—the setting apart of someone for a particular office, service or position. Kings were anointed to rule; they had the right [...]

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  • Our Assignments are Different

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    If we are not careful, our desire to find what God wants for us individually can become confused in the midst of thousands upon thousands of other leaders who are asking the same question. Though spiritual leaders should be asking the same question, they will not necessarily be receiving the same answer. Jesus tells Peter [...]

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  • Our Daily Bread

    Thursday, July 31st, 2008

    Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man shall give to you…I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger… John 6:27,35
    One of the most consistent promises throughout the Bible is God’s assurance that He will [...]

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  • Our Father Waits

    Monday, February 25th, 2008

    No matter who it was that got me into exile, there is only one person who can get me out. His name is the Lord and He says that’s what He’s in the business of doing.

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  • Our Free Gift

    Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

    But the free gift is not like the transgression… So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. Romans 5:15,18
    With all our study about the special gift-mix each of us have, I thought it would be [...]

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  • Our Greatest Weapon

    Friday, February 1st, 2008

    “The greatest weapon we carry around with us all the time is simply our choice to say, “No! I don’t have to do what you’re saying. I want to do what God wants.”

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  • Our Shepherd Lord

    Friday, September 5th, 2008

    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want… Psalm 23:1
    I don’t have any idea how many times I have repeated this Psalm or one of its phrases. Like many of you, I learned it when I was very young and would often say it aloud for my prayers or when I was frightened. To [...]

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  • Out of the Overflow

    Monday, June 30th, 2008

    With my lips I have told of all of the ordinances of Thy mouth. Psalms 119:13 After the Psalmist has treasured God’s word in his heart, there comes the resulting flow of those words through his mouth. In our heart God’s words become like springs of water which break through the crust of the earth [...]

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  • Outside of Order

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    Part of the way the spirit of the anti-Christ works is to want to get us to focus on things that can’t change in God’s order and offer you a possibility in another order that they can be changed.

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  • Overflowing Life

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    “…my cup overflows.” Psalm 23:5b
    An overflowing cup is a picture of David’s heart which has experienced such bounty, such goodness, such wholeness that the treasures of God and the life of God simply wash over the sides of his heart and into his whole life. David’s heart is filled-to-overflowing. His heart is spiritually and emotionally [...]

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  • Parent Church Identifiers

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    WHAT MAKES A LOCAL CONGREGATION A PARENT CHURCH?
    Our need for more church planters means that we need more parent churches which give birth to these new pastors and congregations. But just because a planter comes from a particular congregation, that church may have little interest in (or understanding of) fulfilling a parental role.
    I was intrigued [...]

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  • Parenting and Proverbs

    Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

    The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding, to receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice and equity;  to give prudence to the naive, to the youth knowledge and discretion, a wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a [...]

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  • Parents, Press In

    Saturday, May 10th, 2008

    Many parents nowadays are intimidated by their teens.

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  • Pass Along What We Learn

    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

    Pass Along What We Learn

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  • Pass Out of Judgment

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  • Pastors’ Practicum Overview

    Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

    Pastors’ Practicum Fall 2006 Overview

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  • Patterns for Restoration

    Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

    I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?” Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. I said [...]

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  • Patterns Shape Us

    Monday, July 14th, 2008

    Process Leadership – Quickquote 3

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  • Paul and Barnabas

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    Sometimes, as happened with Paul and Barnabus, former mentor-pupil relationships get broken, just because of different perspectives they each have about something. We have no indication from the Bible who was correct—Paul or Barnabus. The point, as I understand it, is that sometimes God capitalizes on human issues to create two mission teams out of [...]

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  • Paying the Internal Cost

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Controlling Spirit that Splits Churches.”
    In 2 Corinthians, Chapter 12, we are reminded that over the long-haul that everything in the kingdom that is going to do you good and grow you up in God, is always something that will cost you something. It is by grace we [...]

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  • Peace Gift

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    INTRODUCTION
    “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”  Luke 2:14

    Jesus used parables and metaphors > definitions to describe Kingdom truths.

    Peace = absence of conflict, hostility, warfare
    Peace = proactive presence/atmosphere, like a ‘zone’

    For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river…” ISAIAH [...]

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  • Peace Train

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    The Peace Train

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  • People are Funny Creatures

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    People are funny creatures. Often they are so insecure about their own value to God and to the Body of Christ that they try to make their current “place” and perspective the “right” ones by telling everyone that their past places and perspectives were wrong. How unnecessary! I see my life in God as a [...]

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  • People Want a Mission

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008

    People want a mission and it’s one of the greatest jobs of a leader to understand what the mission is that you’ve been called to, and to enlarge that mission enough so people can give their lives away fulfilling it.

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  • People Want a Mission!

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  • Performing or Leading?

    Sunday, January 20th, 2008

    Anything you’re doing that no one else in your congregation could be trained to do is probably something you ought to stop doing because you are performing rather than leading. Didn’t Paul say, “Imitate me as I follow the Lord?

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  • Personal Prayer

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    Real prayer is coming and opening up our heart before God and saying, this is where I really, really am. Of course, what we hope to hear is why we pray—what we hope to hear is the Lord saying something back to us.

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  • Personality

    Saturday, March 10th, 2007

    You will need Flash 8.0 or higher to view video
    Some fun clips showing Daniel’s animated style of teaching
    Flash-test-400-300

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  • Picking Leaders

    Thursday, June 5th, 2008

    Picking leaders

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  • Pleasant Places

    Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

    Pleasant places

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  • Power in Scriptures

    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

    “If we don’t live in the patterns of the scriptures, we set ourselves up for more trouble than we can handle.”

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  • Power of Parental Approval

    Friday, August 22nd, 2008

    Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. Colossians 3:21Parents anxious to do a great job at disciplining their children too often perceive their duty mostly in terms of needing to correct wrong attitudes and behavior. While correcting does occupy quite a bit of conscientious par­ents’ time, it is important [...]

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  • Power of Repentance

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    Repentance is the means by which I take the things that I have already done or thought that are wrong and exchange them for ways that are right. In other words, I repent of my past. Faith, on the other hand, is letting God adjust the way that I think and do things before I [...]

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  • Power of Testimony

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Introduction:  The point of church is to celebrate the Lord and to learn more about Him—who He is and what He does in our lives.  While the best way to learn about Him is in His word, we can also discover many things about His character and power by listening to how He has worked [...]

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  • Power of the Bible

    Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

    The Book of Psalms is so vast and filled with all manner of helpful truths to explore, that we cannot hope to examine all its content related to even one topic. But nowhere does the Bible speak more eloquently about itself than in Psalms. We will look at one of the best-known passages about the [...]

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  • Power of the Bible

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    The Book of Psalms is so vast and filled with all manner of helpful truths to explore, that we cannot hope to examine all its content related to even one topic. But nowhere does the Bible speak more eloquently about itself than in Psalms. Here we will look at one of the best-known passages about [...]

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  • Practical Guidelines for Living

    Saturday, July 5th, 2008

    Although you know I love to teach about passages in the Bible, there are times when it is better to simply let the words of gentle truth and instruction seep into our soul…Daniel

    Romans 12:9-21:
    Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
    Be devoted to one another in brotherly [...]

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  • Praying it Safe

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Sometimes believers are so intimidated about “praying the right thing” that they simply pray for obvious things like protection, provision, etc. Those certainly aren’t wrong to pray for, and all of us want more of them in our lives. The problem is that those “big” and general prayers rarely find specific answers that bolster people’s [...]

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  • Prerequisite to Discipling

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Priceless Basics

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    The priceless basics

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  • Proclaim the Truth

    Thursday, January 24th, 2008

    In the Bible, God showed up in His glory because His people were singing praises to Him about His loving-kindness outlasting everything. They recognized what was true of Him and didn’t hesitate to proclaim it.

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  • Promises and Commandments

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Commandments are equations of possible outcomes: “If you do (X), the result will be (Y).” Promises, on the other hand, are done-deals: “Because I AM (X), the result will be (Y).”
    They both describe consequences for our future. But there is a huge difference. With commandments, the future depends on our behavior; we receive reward [...]

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  • Promises, Promises

    Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

    O Lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will give thanks to Thy name; for Thou has worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. Isaiah 25:1The Lord is a God of promises. His promises are prophetic assurances of what He has in mind to do in our lives. We live [...]

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  • Proof of Love

    Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    The serving is the proof of your love

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  • Prophet / Prophecy

    Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

    Prophet/Prophecy

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  • Prophetess and the Styrofoam Cup

    Thursday, July 17th, 2008

    There is value in being a servant first, if you want to minister to others.

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  • Puny Me Street

    Monday, May 12th, 2008

    There is a way to grow up and mature, even in a place of ‘captivity’.

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  • Purpose and Activity of Demons

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  • Purpose of Demons

    Thursday, September 25th, 2008

    The purpose or the activities of demons as you can find in Scripture are as follows. They want to hinder the purposes of God any way they can, to thwart God’s Kingdom and His will and His way. They want to bring harm to people in general and believers in particular. They hate people and [...]

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  • Purpose of Love

    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

    Please always believe the best about people. That’s what love does. Love hopes for and believes in the best for people. And what I mean by this is that I always want to presume that the mistake or error that someone made wasn’t really what they wanted to do.

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  • Qualify the Unqualified

    Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Qualify the Unqualified ”
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  • Radical Thinking about Church

    Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

    Church is supposed to be a process to tend people, not a place for people to attend. These are radically different notions of church.

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  • Real Church

    Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

    “Real” Church

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  • Real God

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    God is a God of great love, joy and compassion

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  • Real Life

    Monday, June 2nd, 2008

    One-to-one ministry is all about beginning with an understanding of the truth that I really want to communicate, but also acknowledging that this is a real person to whom I’m speaking, and they are in a real life situation that needs an aptly spoken word to really see them through.

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  • Real Threat

    Friday, January 25th, 2008

    “An idol’s one goal is to destroy the fundamental entity of who you were meant to be. They are after the “real” you.”

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  • Reassured by Mercy

    Friday, July 25th, 2008

    When you have tried everything you know to try and nothing is changing, you can think, “Lord, I pray, I read, I fast, I seek your face, I do all these things and just nothing comes of it!” We don’t want somebody to feel sorry for us; being merciful and being sorry for somebody is [...]

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  • Rebuilding Others Can be Costly

    Monday, September 8th, 2008

    Now when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the exile were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel, they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; and we have been sacrificing [...]

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  • Receiving the Christmas Gift

    Thursday, December 18th, 2008

    “It’s perfect. Just what I wanted.”
    I hope it happened for you this year. I hope you received a gift that was so great, so perfectly everything-you-wanted-and-more, that you have a difficult time containing your excitement. Or maybe the gift was rich with meaning—given with fervor by someone special or laden with personal longing and significance.
    Not [...]

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  • Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb

    Thursday, June 19th, 2008

    Then he said to the closest relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech. So I thought to inform you, saying ‘Buy it before those who are sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If you will [...]

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  • Redefining Rest

    Monday, July 21st, 2008

    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all [...]

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  • Redemption Begins With…

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008

    The redemptive power of God to buy back a wayward life, to recover a sinful area of somebody’s soul, to forgive iniquity is the most significant power in the universe and that is why God says, “Call unto me.”

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  • Redemption Ends With…

    Monday, January 21st, 2008

    Hell is the only place you can’t be redeemed from and if you go there, I will never ever see you again. Every pit stop on the way, every stuck place, every discipline, desert, correction, corralling or restraint of God is to prevent you and me from getting to the only place for which there [...]

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  • Refreshment

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    We want our people to be and feel refreshed, for out of a cup overflowing with life and blessing come the best waters of service to others.

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  • Refreshment for Thirsty Souls

    Sunday, February 17th, 2008

    One-to-one ministry is all about drops of refreshment, little bits of water that spill out of my soul into the thirsty soul of other people.

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  • Releasing People

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Fearing that others will do things wrong will prevent pastors from releasing their people to become leaders.

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  • Religious Formulas

    Sunday, August 10th, 2008

    Using religious formulas or practices without obedience and fooling ourselves into thinking we can make up for not obeying with oaths or rituals is a sign of witchcraft.

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  • Religious Smokescreen

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    Another attribute regarding the spirit of Jezebel is that it very often will use religious pretenses, religious formulas, or religious exercises to do its dirty work.
    This is what makes [...]

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  • Remembering the Good News

    Friday, December 19th, 2008

    The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed Me… (Jesus)
    We should remind ourselves of exactly what Jesus came to do to make a difference not only in our eternal lives, but in our daily lives as well. What is His message to our todays?
    In His first public sermon, Jesus reminded [...]

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  • Renewed Renewal

    Monday, July 28th, 2008

    Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31As we follow Jesus, our lives become a constant process of discovery. We seek His will and His way in every detail [...]

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  • Reshaping Every Aspect of Our Life

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    God will lead us with a combination of whispered promises from His Word, confirmations by more than one witness, and those little inner promptings of faith. But giving Him complete freedom to reshape every aspect of our lives (inside and out) is what guides us most surely in His will and is what qualifies us [...]

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  • Resisting the Enemy

    Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

    We resist the enemy by turning ourselves over to the Lord. The enemy can’t have influence in the areas you insist in giving to Him.

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  • Restoration Promise

    Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

    Restoration Promise

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  • Restoring Antiques

    Friday, September 26th, 2008

    He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:3-4
    Throughout our entire life, the Shepherd of our heart [...]

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  • Return to Us

    Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

    Everything we give will produce return to us

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  • Revelation Already Revealed

    Thursday, February 21st, 2008

    “There isn’t revelation that any godly person is going to come up with except has already been revealed.”

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  • Right or Righteous?

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    Notice that we conveniently forget all the other things we haven’t yet stopped doing. I don’t know when you ultimately decide, “I’m a good person because I’ve now nailed 1,000 of the 7,440,000 things that I was doing wrong.” When is the bar high enough in your moral life—not only in what you do, but [...]

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  • Righteous

    Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

    We don’t need to be good enough in order to be righteous

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  • Roaming from Safety, Truth or Virtue

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    I believe the spirit of Jezebel can affect men as well, but we’re just talking about women at this point. It leads the people astray. It literally means, “to [...]

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  • Root of Pride!

    Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

    Root of Pride!

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  • Run to the Lord

    Friday, March 21st, 2008

    It’s amazing the peace that comes when we say “I can’t deal with this anymore” and run to the Lord. Just as astounding, is the torment we suffer when we can’t deal with something anymore, but don’t go to the Lord.

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  • Sacrificing our Lives for Others

    Thursday, April 10th, 2008

    We offer ourselves as a sacrifice for others, and offer them as the masterpiece. If we don’t die, others won’t live.

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  • Saints in the Rough

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    Effective ministry is always going reflect God’s perspective on people.

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  • Sampler of 2 Kings

    Saturday, September 6th, 2008

    The Book of 2 Kings records 300 years of political and religious chaos in the divided Kingdoms (Israel & Judah), including the captivity and exile of Israel (by the Assyrians) and a similar fate for Judah (by the Babylonians) 130 years later. But within its pages are also stories of courageous individuals who stood righteously [...]

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  • Scriptures on Slander and Gossip

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    PSALM 15:1-3 “O Lord, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart, “ “He does not slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend… He who [...]

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  • Search and Rescue

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    The legalistic tendency has no concept of redeeming or rescuing anyone, but let’s face it, sin is hugely attractive to us so what do we suggest for people? Legalists can only say “don’t,” but have nothing to offer once someone has fallen or even jumped off a cliff into sin. God asks us to [...]

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  • Season of Refreshment

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Securing a Lasting Legacy

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    Picture your children saying:
    “I guess I don’t really know much about their finances. It just seemed like we always had enough. I can remember several times when amazing things happened: vacations we couldn’t afford, anonymous gifts in the mail, etc. It’s strange how so many things just worked out—I don’t even know how (and I [...]

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  • Securing our blessing

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    Securing our blessing

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  • Security In Giving

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008

    “You can’t serve both masters. You will either understand that your future is secured by giving, or you will serve and worship mammon that says your future is secured by what you keep. In the kingdom, it’s what you give away. In the world, it’s what you keep.”

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  • Seducing the Purposes of God

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. 2 King 9:30
    The new king, Jehu, [...]

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  • Seeds of Tomorrow’s Great Harvest

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    When medical researchers announce a tremendous breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes, other scientists and doctors studying cancer, brain disorders and Alzheimer’s disease pause to rejoice. It is unlikely that the discovery about diabetes will have any direct effect on their research. How foolish it would be if they left their specialized studies in order [...]

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  • Self-Seeking Spirit

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    The spirit of Jezebel will use its authority to get something for itself or to control the situation. It is ultimately self-seeking. It is not serving of other people. [...]

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  • Sensing Our Inheritance

    Sunday, August 31st, 2008

    Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. Now we have received, not [...]

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  • Servanthood

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    We need a good theology of servanthood if we’re going to get people mobilized in our churches.

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  • Serving Comes from Gratitude

    Monday, January 28th, 2008

    People will serve out of gratitude for what has been done in their lives. Serving becomes an expression of appreciation for how much they have been blessed and their testimonies of what God has done for them will also inspire others, drawing them into serving as well.

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  • Serving Greatness by Greatly Serving

    Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    “And they came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, ‘What were you discussing on the way?’ But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to [...]

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  • Serving is For….

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    As leaders, we don’t need people to serve us;  they need us to serve them. As pastors we will be helped by keeping this perspective.

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  • Serving IS Ministry

    Friday, June 20th, 2008

    God doesn’t have some funny distinction where He looks down and He sees someone who is preaching and says, “Oh, that is the kind of spiritual ministry I like!” And He sees somebody else who is cooking the spaghetti for the church potluck and says, “Well, someday, someday!” He doesn’t divide it up [...]

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  • Shaping Others

    Thursday, April 17th, 2008

    If all we’re doing is loving our people without shaping them into who God has designed them to be, we aren’t really discipling them.

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  • Sharing God’s Goodness

    Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

    When I’m sharing the goodness of the Lord with my children, I’m sharing the thing that tastes the best to me. If they have nothing else, if they know God and that He is good, they have all they need in life.

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  • Sharing Little Morsels

    Saturday, April 26th, 2008

    Sharing little morsels

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  • Shhhhhhhh!

    Monday, April 28th, 2008

    If you are looking for the kind of thing that is impressive to everybody else, you are not going to hear the voice of the Lord. It is quiet, still and faint.

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  • Sign Me Up!

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    This excerpt is taken from the Article “My Biggest Ministry Mistakes.” http://ctw.coastlands.org/read/articles/my-biggest-ministry-mistakes/

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  • Simple Discipleship

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    SIMPLE DISCIPLESHIPWith An Excerpt From “Enjoying Your Journey With God”
    The Bible was written to people like you and me who had questions and concerns exactly like the ones we all have. The spiritual words and lessons penned in the Bible all carry a quality of incarnation. The word becomes flesh, and other human beings can [...]

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  • Sin in the Human Heart

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Unless the Church challenges conservatives and liberals alike on the central issue of sin in the human heart, we will lull ourselves and the conservatives into the lie that some (conservatives) are “well enough” not to need the Physician, and some (liberals) are “not well enough” to be welcomed by Him.

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  • Sincere Communication

    Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

    No matter how sincere someone is, not anyone is 100% accurate in communicating God’s word.

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  • Snares and Traps

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  • Some Personal Experiences

    Thursday, March 8th, 2007

    Some personal experiences

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  • Some Planted, Some Watered

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    God, who will not give His glory to another, bestows portions of His grace for brief periods of time on men and women who figure prominently in our spiritual formation. He gives them a measure of wisdom and insight, so that they can “watch over” our souls (Hebrews 13:17), without “lording” over us in the [...]

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  • Spiritual Archaeologists

    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

    We are called to delve into people’s life, below the surface.

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  • Spiritual Calisthenics

    Sunday, October 12th, 2008

    “ …Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on [...]

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  • Spiritual Courage

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    It takes more spiritual courage to stand in forgiveness than in condemnation

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  • Spiritual Folklore

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  • Spiritual Gifts

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  • Spiritual Make-Up

    Monday, January 7th, 2008

    As certainly as God has given you emotional make-up, He has given you a spiritual make-up as well. It doesn’t make you better than anyone else. It just makes you a little bit different than others.

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  • Spiritual Maturity

    Thursday, February 21st, 2008

    Spiritual maturity is not a destination; it’s not a place I’m aiming for. It’s meant to be a tool or resource. Spiritual maturity is my inheritance and when I have it, I can be focused on doing battle on behalf of those who don’t yet have their inheritance rather than on me and what I [...]

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  • Spiritual Violence

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008

    Remember that the Kingdom of heaven allows for violence, and the violent take it by force (Matt. 11:12). It’s a spiritual violence.

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  • Spiritually Changing You

    Monday, March 17th, 2008

    “Anything in this life that has the power to radically reshape, twist or bend the human personality that God intended–the being that is you and the attributes He wove so intricately together while you were in your mother’s womb–anything that has the power to warp or change that personality is spiritual in nature.”

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  • Spoken vs the Written Word

    Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

    When we receive a prophetic word, we aren’t under bondage to that word. We don’t obey a prophetic word like we obey scripture. We’re not under obligation to make that word come true. It’s designed by God simply to bring blessing and good into our life.

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  • Staggered by My Beliefs

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    I got to talk about Jesus to a professor and a group of fellow PhD students. The professor was brilliant—an expert in his field. He asked me a semi-derogatory question about my beliefs, so I explained why Jesus died. I kept using 3rd grade words because, as the Lord reminded me, these people were very [...]

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  • Stand by Your Man

    Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

    Stand by your man

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  • Starting All Over Again

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    I have found in my own walk with the Lord that a necessary component of going for it is the decision that I want to start all over again and learn things as though I have never, ever heard them. That passion and excitement about starting all over again is what was developing with the [...]

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  • Stay Tuned (Part 1)

    Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

    This devotion is Part 1 of 2 from bulletin letters Daniel wrote several years ago when, as the pastor of the Coastlands, he had been searching the Scriptures to hear the Lord’s voice for the church.
    As your pastor, I am eager to teach each of you how to better hear the voice of the [...]

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  • Stay Tuned (Part 2)

    Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

    This devotion comes from another bulletin letter Daniel had written while in a season of seeking the Lord’s guiding voice for the congregation he was pastoring:
    Again, I offer you the verses which have been highlighted to my heart–as an opportunity for you to eavesdrop on the conversation the Lord has been having with me. Read [...]

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  • Staying the Course in Jesus

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    We hear people preach, “We’re just staying the course in Jesus.” Well, what is the course in Jesus? I think the course in Jesus is the ultimate destiny to be made into everything that God wants us to be and to be disciplers who reach around and grab [...]

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  • Staying True to the Call

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    Through the years, many people left our church. Some moved out of town, some fell away from the Lord, some found other churches in the area matched their needs better than Coastlands did, some pioneered other churches, and some left because of a disagreement or disappointment with me. Fortunately, I went into pastoring with the [...]

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  • Staying Your Course

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    We often deal in the realm of the unseen, and so we long for substantial confirmation that we are on the right track. Thus, when tremendous physical evidence (numbers, manifestations, etc.) attends someone else’s ministry, style or city, it is hard to resist the momentum that draws us toward such tangible assurance.

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  • Step Out

    Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Step Out ”
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  • Stopping Things

    Saturday, June 28th, 2008

    The power of parenting lies in stopping negative things in their children’s lives before they begin.

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  • Strange Fire, Sudden Death

    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

    Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Leviticus [...]

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  • Strategic Questions To Ask When Event Planning

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Long ago when I was a kid, I heard from knowledgeable sources (older friends on the block) that if I was ever alone in the wilderness and needed to survive on my own, I should not waste my energy hunting rabbits. “Rabbit meat costs your body more to digest than the meat gives back in [...]

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  • Stretching…But Which Way?

    Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

    I’ve been thinking about the pain that comes from being stretched by the Lord into/for more ministry. When we “go through” difficult trials or when God has us in seasons of lesson-learning and character-shaping, it isn’t fun. It hurts. It’s tempting to opt out of such an ever-expanding training process. And many people do! The [...]

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  • Structure is Important!

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Structure is something to do—arranging stuff where it belongs now, moving things around, getting things to fit together to accomplish a goal—not something to have.
    That is why good structure is fluid and flexible, adapting to “daily bread” needs. Rigid, bureaucratic models like in the military or industries where workers do the same basic set of [...]

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  • Subtle Traps

    Saturday, March 1st, 2008

    The primary way that demonic elements try to manifest in people’s lives is not with something scary that makes a chair begin to shake. Instead they create mentalities, conclusions and thought processes in peoples’ minds that lead them to very far off and distant places from what the Lord would have meant for them to [...]

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  • Suffering: A Catalyst for Tremendous Spiritual Growth

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    The world sees suffering as only bad, a thing to be avoided. In spiritual matters, however, suffering can be the crucible of character transformation and development.
    “Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose…” 1 Peter 4:1
    Of course, not all suffering is good; we can suffer because of our [...]

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  • Surprised by Joy

    Sunday, August 24th, 2008

    “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
    I took a little walk [...]

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  • Table Spread

    Saturday, September 27th, 2008

    Thou dost prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies… Psalm 23:5a
    None of us like to think that we have enemies. We are almost offended by the thought that anyone could be against us purposely and decidedly. We like to think of ourselves as easy-going, easy to get along with, and the [...]

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  • Taking a Risk

    Saturday, September 13th, 2008

    And this is what to me it’s all about. A willingness to risk or to spend my time, my energy, my resources, that I might be a part of God doing something in another person’s life.

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  • Taking One’s Inheritance or Authority

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    The spirit of Jezebel wants to take possession of another person’s inheritance, their right, their place, or their authority. Jezebel told her husband to go and take possession of [...]

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  • Taste the Lord’s Goodness!

    Friday, October 10th, 2008

    “When He, the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all truth for He will not speak on His own initiative but whatever He hears He will speak and He will disclose to you of what will come. He shall glorify Me for He will take of Mine and shall disclose it to [...]

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  • Teaching Obedience

    Thursday, June 26th, 2008

    A discipler is someone who sets about to teach others to obey what he or she has been taught and has obeyed. If we teach beyond our obedience, we are not discipling…we’re participating in hypocrisy.

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  • Teaching the Few, Not the Multitudes

    Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

    Excerpt taken from Daniel’s Travel Journal: Colombia (Bogota), 2010: Day 05
    The essence of my extended message was based on a simple premise: we do not always follow biblical patterns in how we arrange and structure church. For instance, Jesus discipled a small number of people—not large crowds—and with those few, He turned the world upside [...]

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  • Team Players

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Being on the same team rarely means playing the same position; spiritual leaders need encouragement to remember that simple truth. Our zeal to “get it right” often leads us to a preoccupation with what others are called to do.

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  • Test the Spirits

    Thursday, March 8th, 2007

    Test the spirits

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  • Testimonies of Thanksgiving

    Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

    Despite all the erosions in morality and values in our country, we still observe some significant periods of the year on our calendars. We actually have a national holiday with the name of one of the most godly traits a person can have — Thanksgiving.
    We Christians often spend lots of time and energy fighting against [...]

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  • Testimony of Deliverance

    Sunday, April 20th, 2008

    When you have seen people freed from demonic torment and seen their lives absolutely radically transformed, it builds your faith like very few other things that I know. “By my little finger, I cast out demons,” Jesus said, “The Kingdom is here.”

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  • Thanks, Mom!

    Thursday, May 15th, 2008

    She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and bless her; her husband also, and he praises her… Proverbs 31:27-28
    The movie Mr. Mom, which came out quite a few years ago, has a frighteningly simple plot: the dad loses his job; the [...]

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  • Thanksgiving with One Another

    Monday, November 24th, 2008

    And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. And beyond all these things put on [...]

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  • That Same Spirit

    Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

    What Jesus saw, what Jesus heard, He says it is now to your advantage because just as the Son of God hears and sees things, now by My Spirit there are going to be multiplied millions of people who have the same prerogatives, the same privilege, the same access to be instructed by God the [...]

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  • The Shower of Mercy

    Monday, May 26th, 2008

    Purpose; shower of mercy

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  • There Is an Order to it

    Saturday, May 24th, 2008

    An Introduction to the Ministry of Deliverance – Quickquote 4

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  • Three Questions to Ask Yourself about Money

    Friday, October 31st, 2008

    Here is the question:
    What should a Christian’s viewpoint be on wealth? There seems to be a lot of imbalance out there. On religious TV and elsewhere, you sometimes see greed. On the other hand, some people think a believer shouldn’t accumulate wealth. I have money. Should I be feeling guilty about it?
    Many Kingdom matters cannot [...]

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  • Through Mercy to Truth and Life – The Mercy Shower

    Saturday, March 29th, 2008

    A shower of mercy is able to absorb so much pain and agony and everybody feels better when they are done talking to a shower of mercy. You don’t talk with a shower of mercy–you talk to a shower of mercy. It is like water dripping on sponge. They just soak it all up.

    The [...]

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  • Through Obedience to the Future

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    But because I know that God is great, I can say to them, God has a great future for you. The way that we open up to that future is through obedience. That is the key to every person’s future.
    See, one-to-one ministry is all about helping people see the power of simple obedience.

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  • Time for Rest

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • To Our Advantage

    Saturday, May 17th, 2008

    The holy spirit allows us to have a relationship with the Father

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  • Too Consuming

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    Too Consuming

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  • Touching More People

    Saturday, June 7th, 2008

    “…so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you…” 2 Corinthians 10:16When Jesus calls us to “go, make disciples” He means that we are to keep on going and making more and more disciples. The issue is not the total number of people whose lives are impacted, but we must be careful [...]

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  • Touching Others

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    A setting for one-on-one discipleship in the context of meaningful and honest relationships. We train people to touch others.

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  • Tradition or Obedience?

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Tradition is nothing; obedience is everything.

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  • Trains Come and Go

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    A lot of pastors are like conductors who have a secret button. They pull into this next station. They see the town coming up. They get worried, “Oh! People are going to leave this!” They push the button so that the doors won’t open and all of the [...]

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  • Trap of Legalism

    Monday, April 7th, 2008

    The trap of legalism is that it sounds so spiritual

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  • True Authority

    Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

    The people were amazed at His teaching, because He taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Mark 1:22
    When Jesus taught the people, He taught them as one having authority. He did not teach them like the scribes or Pharisees; they noticed that He did’nt come across with the [...]

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  • True Authority

    Friday, September 5th, 2008

    You know you have authority in someone’s life when they ask your opinion, not necessarily when you just give it.

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  • True Authority

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Leadership is not something that I have. Leadership is something that I am doing. It’s not a static thing. It’s an active thing; something you exercise instead of something that you have. Leadership is always about exercising true authority. I don’t think this concept of authority [...]

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  • True Boasting

    Monday, November 3rd, 2008

    While I was discussing Galatians with three men in our church, we talked about verses and concepts in the book which were particularly significant to us.
    My heart was drawn to this one:
    But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the Lord has been [...]

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  • True of God

    Thursday, August 28th, 2008

    Enjoying Your Journey with God – Quickquote 3

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  • True Vision

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    True vision does not make one a mystic or a statistician. It makes one incredibly sensitive to the heart of God for a group of people. With vision, both the pastor and the congregation are kept from casting aimlessly about, merely hoping to do something worthwhile.

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  • Truly Friends

    Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

    Any person you truly disciple will become your friend, but any person who is your friend you will never disciple.

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  • Truth about Legalism

    Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

    Legalism tells us we don’t need God’s ways in our heart. It says that we can have a list of do’s and don’ts, and if we do all that, we’ll be in the ways of God. The Spirit of God tells us that when God’s ways are imprinted on our heart, we will walk in [...]

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  • Truth Talk

    Sunday, June 29th, 2008

    “Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.” Ephesians 4:25
    “So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.” Romans 14: 19
    “If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all [...]

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  • Truths to be Lived Out

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Trying to Get Answers

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    Do you understand why most people would even be tempted to commune with the dead? Why would people read an astrological chart of their life? They’re trying to get answers. They’re trying to get help. They’re trying to figure out what they’re to do in life and who they are. They are sincere people who [...]

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  • Tuning into God

    Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

    Encourage people to hear God for themselves. It’s not our job as disciplers to be the voice of God in someone’s life. We simply help them tune their ears.

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  • Two Basic Things

    Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

    Two basic things Jesus wanted His disciples to do

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  • Two Days Before the Day after Christmas

    Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

    The days of the blameless are known to the LORD, and their inheritance will endure forever. Psalm 37:17-19
    Every Christmas has its day-after.
    Though a relief, it’s still a disappointment. The very best of human generosity, the finest holiday, the most memorable time of year–all still reveal how earth-bound we are without the Lord. Human Christmases are [...]

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  • Under the Hood!

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  • Understanding the Counsel of God

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    I. What is Counsel?A. English and Greek B. HebrewC.  Special advice and insight not available to just anyone—only to a close few.D.  Foundational purposes, values or mentalities.E. Advice, guidance and direction to help put or keep someone on the best course.
    II. What are the Various Sources of Counsel?A. Natural Sources (JAMES 3:15)1. Our own heart and minda) JEREMIAH 17:9; ECCLESIASTES 9:33—The heart cannot [...]

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  • Unintended Legalism in Ministry

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Sincere pastors easily fall prey to an unintended legalism emanating from glowing testimonies, ministry newsletters, Christian periodicals, conference speakers and the ever-present grapevine. Spiritual happenings (like revival in one country or a uniquely focused Para-church ministry) get highlighted through the conversations and ministries of prominent leaders and the rest of us wonder what’s wrong with [...]

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  • Unique Callings

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    The more we recognize the enormity and complexity of what the world-wide church has been given to do, the more we will realize that it will take millions of us being obedient to our unique callings. In our zeal to find the move of the Spirit in our day, let us not forget He resides [...]

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  • Unto Us

    Monday, December 22nd, 2008

    For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11
    There are almost no other words in all the Bible as poignant and meaningful as these, because they contain the message of all God’s dealings to all humankind. It was “unto us” that the heavens [...]

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  • Upward Called

    Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

    Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14
    Except for the Lord Himself, and all [...]

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  • Using our Mistakes

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    There’s a lot of warmth and love that happens in the midst of our mistakes. Let’s not sacrifice them. Let’s not try to avoid them. Let’s use them for the sake of the Kingdom.

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  • Using Our Wisdom

    Monday, May 26th, 2008

    Using our wisdom

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  • Voices That Dishearten!

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  • Wait for the Results

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  • Walk This Way

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Teaching people how to “walk in a manner worthy of the Lord”(Colossians 1:10) requires us to show them how we have stepped across the many types of terrain and ground hazards in our own lives.

    Excerpt from “ Walk This Way ”

  • Wanting Ears to Hear

    Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

    When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel! Now look after your own house, David!” So Israel departed to their tents. 1 Kings 12:16In [...]

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  • Warmth and Love in Mistakes

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Warmth and Love in Mistakes ”
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  • Warnings From a Prophet

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    The prophets of God are not these angry doomsayers that some of us imagine. If I mention prophet, you are thinking of a guy with a sandwich board saying, “The world is going to end!” You mention prophet, and you think of Old Testament guys dressed in funny outfits and they were always [...]

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  • Waste No Breath on Yourself

    Monday, October 20th, 2008

    “For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.” 2 Corinthians 10:18Some of the Lord’s favorite words to utter are “Well done good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21). Contrary to what many people think, God loves to encourage and bless us, and the primary way He directs our lives is through [...]

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  • We are for Signs and Wonders

    Sunday, September 21st, 2008

    We Are For Signs and Wonders

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  • We Are His Works of Art

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Excerpt from “ We Are His Works of Art ”
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  • We Believe in You

    Sunday, March 21st, 2010

    For the most part, future church planters and pastors will come from the ranks of lay leadership in existing churches. Not every local pastor knows how to inspire their leaders to “go” into a future beyond the limits of the local church they currently attend, and sometimes it’s just helpful for an outside voice to [...]

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  • We Don’t Have to Be Extraordinary

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    It’s always more exciting to think about somebody praying for me that I don’t know really well . Imagine the idea that somebody in my cell group could pray for me! “I know him. We were in a cell group about eight months ago—very nice guy, but I mean…..”
    If you had known the people in [...]

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  • We Got Robbed…

    Monday, August 18th, 2008

    “…your destroyers and devastators will depart from you. Lift up your eyes and look around; all of them gather together, they come to you. “As I live,” declares the Lord, “you shall surely put on all of them as jewels, and bind them on as a bride. For your waste and desolate places, and your [...]

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  • We Have a Strong City

    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

    The following are my personal reflections on Isaiah 26:1-10:Verse 1: In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.
    The protective walls are Yeshuwa (Jesus): salvation, deliverance, victory, rescue, health, help, and welfareVerse 2: Open the gates, that the [...]

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  • We Have a Wonderful Counselor

    Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder. And He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6-7
    As odd as it may sound, we rely on that fact. We count on the most understanding, [...]

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  • What Can I Give You?

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

    We’re supposed to send people into the ministry. That’s why we have a philosophy of ministry at The Coastlands of we will love you, we will mend you, we will train you, and we will send you. We’re not supposed to just collect everybody, “Let’s all get together and have a nice club.” [...]

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  • What Do You Believe?

    Monday, April 14th, 2008

    The issue about money isn’t whether God is able to do what He says, it’s about what we believe to be true about God. Do you truly believe He will make use of all that He has in order to take care of you versus the little that you have?

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  • What I Want

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    I want to identify; I want to equip; I want to mobilize; I want to release; and I want to respond to or affirm leaders.

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  • What is Accountability?

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  • What is Church?

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  • What is God Up To?

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    …God is calling an entire generation back out into the desert of obscurity, small beginnings, loneliness and unheralded sacrifice. God is thrusting us out and away from the large rivers to become streams in the thirsty lands all about. The promise is that the desert will blossom because of us.

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  • What is Leadership?

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    Leadership is not something that you have. Leadership is something that you are doing. It’s not a static thing. It’s an active thing; something you exercise instead of something that you have.
    Collecting a group of people that you have arranged in order to accomplish some great purpose for [...]

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  • What We Do Now is What They Will Do Then

    Thursday, July 24th, 2008

    Sow with a view to righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD until He comes to rain righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12
    I have been thinking a lot lately about one particular aspect of parenting which seems to be lost on most parents– even [...]

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  • What’s in a Name?

    Friday, October 17th, 2008

    The first thing that strikes me about 1 Chronicles is all the names of all the people–genealogy after genealogy of God’s people. Frankly, it’s pretty boring reading because to us that’s all it is: list upon list of names that mean almost nothing to us. We know nothing about most of these characters. They are [...]

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  • What’s the Reason?

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    …While we must reject too clinical an approach to church growth—making it devoid of God’s sovereign working—so, too, must we refuse to let flailing churches blame God’s unwillingness to bring them revival.

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  • What’s Your Approach?

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Is it possible that it is not so much that we are facing a hard community, as much as we are facing a community that may be resistant to the approach we have been taking?

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  • When Jesus Steps In

    Monday, June 1st, 2009

    Jesus Has a Problem

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  • When Not to Tolerate or Leave Alone

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Jezebel: A Spirit that Splits Churches.” You may also download a FREE MP3 of this teaching by visiting our web store.
    To tolerate literally means “to leave alone” or “not to confront”. I had been aware of something troubling me about this person who I think was part of introducing [...]

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  • When Sin is Your Master

    Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

    What makes sin a master over us is the power we give it when we say yes to it.

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  • When the Enemy Calls Us Into Question!

    Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Excerpt from “ When the Enemy Calls Us Into Question! ”
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  • When the Odds are Against Me

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    That’s one of the great things about an invisible God. Granted, we cannot see Him or count Him among the ranks or resources supporting us; but neither could Goliath or Pharaoh see Him, until it was too late. That realization is helping me become eager for battle when the obvious odds are against me.

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  • Where Do We Give Ourselves?

    Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Where Do We Give Ourselves? ”
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  • Where Does a Church Meet?

    Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

    Where does a church meet?

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  • Where is Your Concern?

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    Too many pastors become more concerned about new people coming to church than they are about Jesus coming.

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  • Who Am I?

    Monday, June 9th, 2008

    Jesus warns us that the thief comes “to steal, to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). Nowhere does the thief’s work show up more painfully than in people’s sense of their identity–who and what they are.
    Each of us has been uniquely crafted, marvelously fashioned by the Lord; “it is He who has made us, and [...]

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  • Who Have I Lifted Up?

    Friday, July 13th, 2007

    In the Kingdom of God we lift people up.

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  • Who is Orchestrating our Life?

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    Instead of taking matters into our own hands and insisting on our rights, we are encouraged to let God be the one to orchestrate the affairs of our life. Not only is He far better able to affect our circumstances than we are ourselves, He also understands what real life is all about…and we don’t.

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  • Whole Vs. Broken

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    A whole person retains more of a fragmented, disjointed sermon than a broken person retains of a whole sermon.

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  • Wholly Holidays

    Friday, December 19th, 2008

    A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity. Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land. Psalm 68:5-6It usually bothers me when people refer to these next several weeks as “the holidays” [...]

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  • Why Arrange?

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    Why Arrange?

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  • Why God Chose You

    Sunday, September 7th, 2008

    It is not because we are such great guys that God says, “Oh! I can really use you on My team!” This isn’t some eighth grade intramural sports-picking thing where God says, “We are going to be doing basketball–hey, you are tall, so you are going to be on My team.” He doesn’t [...]

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  • Why God Made You

    Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

    God was the one who was very, very in love with you and me before we were even made. It was out of the longing or desire in His heart for who we are now, and He used that longing and that desire as a blueprint to shape us and to frame us.

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  • Why Plant?

    Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Why Plant? ”
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  • Why Serving is Important

    Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

    This excerpt is from the series “How to Mobilize Your Church.”

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  • Wild Wild West

    Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

    Wild Wild West

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  • Willingness Brings Freedom

    Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

    The reason people don’t feel forgiven is because they don’t really repent; they just feel guilty. Willingness to be wrong changes everything and brings freedom from guilt.

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  • Willingness to Forgive

    Saturday, January 5th, 2008

    The more that I am willing to forgive those who have done wrong to me, the more quickly I will be healed from the distortions of my soul.

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  • Witness or Disciple?

    Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

    “… you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8
    “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the [...]

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  • Women…Want a New Man?

    Monday, January 14th, 2008

    Don’t only talk about problems.

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  • Words to Live By

    Sunday, August 17th, 2008

    For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, [...]

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  • Worship While We Build

    Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Excerpt from “ Worship While We Build ”
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  • Year for Discipleship

    Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

    Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20The directive is very simple: make disciples—pupils [...]

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  • You Are Not Alone

    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

    See, in the Kingdom of God there is no such thing as a self-made person. How tragic it is that so many people in the church of Jesus Christ have been left to themselves. We’ve almost ennobled this idea that, well, I’m a mature Christian, and I’m just going to go it on my [...]

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  • Your Focus Manifested

    Friday, March 14th, 2008

    “Everyone who makes an idol will become like that idol.”

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  • Your ministry is your capability

    Sunday, September 28th, 2008

    Your ministry is your capability, your empowerment from the Lord to function in a certain way and to fulfill ultimately the role that He has intended for you to have in His body here on the earth.

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  • Zealous But Wacko!

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    Zealous but wacko!

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