Toddler Rules of Possessions

Sunday we concluded the series “The Golden Ticket” with “Veruca Salt: I Deserve It.” If you missed it, you can listen to it here. Hands down the highlight of the day was the “Toddler Rules of Possessions.” Very funny stuff…and very true how we act sometimes as adults when it comes to “stuff.”

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7 Sins of Dying Churches

I’m reading a book called Essential Church? Thom and Sam Rainer talk about how the church in America is becoming non-essential in people’s lives. They give some pretty alarming statistics that show the light is going out in our own backyard. In the last 20 years population has grown by almost 20%, while church attendance […]

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Greed Monkey

On Sunday I talked about the “Greed Monkey.” If you missed it you can listen to it here. We all have a Greed Monkey on our back that tells us, “You want it, you need it, you gotta have it.” I made an off-handed comment about drawing a Greed Monkey, if you’re a bit ADD […]

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3rd Culture

It’s Friday morning. You may or may not know that I take Friday mornings to reflect, refocus, and respond to what God desires in my life as a leader and the life of Connection Church. Today I was watching a video from Dave Gibbons. Dave is a pastor in Southern California. As I was watching […]

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