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My Love-Hate Relationship with Chipotle

I love Chipotle! Their food is fresh, whole and tasty. I’m tempted daily to eat there with one reservation: it doesn’t really sit too well with my stomach. By stomach, of course, I mean my digestive process. It goes down great, but comes out with a vengeance. You can see where this is going. I learned this about myself several …

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Does God Need My Help?

As a pastor it can be easy to get in the mindset that God needs me – that my efforts directly move forward his agenda. That in some way God couldn’t do this without my involvement. But there is an opposite (and just as dangerous) approach: many Christians believe that somehow they’re too weak, too broken and too much of …

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Parenting on Purpose

I try to read at least a book a week on the topic of Christian living, leadership, ministry development, marriage or parenting. This past week, as I’ve been reading through Andy Stanley’s Visioneering, two things stuck out to me in regards to parenting. In the introduction to the book, he discusses the reason for having a vision for your life. …