Thursday, August 15, 2024

A Free and Fearless Temple

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Can a Christian be cursed or have a demon? There is no biblical precedent where a believer in Jesus Christ can be cursed in any way. There i...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

The Blessing of Beneficial Consequences

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The Blessing of Beneficial Consequences  By Bill Vanderbush Maturity happens when you come to care about knowing what the people who have go...
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Friday, December 08, 2023

From Fatigue to Fascination

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 From Fatigue to Fascination As humanity we have become accustomed to fatigue. Even spiritually. Ministry fatigue defines the life of many p...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Recovering What We've Lost

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Recovering What We've Lost (Transcribed from the podcast) Is it possible that we've been living far below what God intended for us f...
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Monday, November 22, 2021

It All Began In A Barn

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It all began in a barn.  And the Midwest is full of them. My Dad’s first job was in a barn. The revival that lit a fire of the Gospel for ma...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Masked, Canceled, and Woke (Transcribed from the podcast)

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Does the grace of Jesus have anything to say about the hot button issues of the day? Absolutely it does. So today we’re going to take a fres...
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Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Price of Unleaded Happiness

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Wander into Lange’s Cafe in Pipestone, MN, and you’ll see the same sight I grew up with. A diner filled with old farmers talking about all t...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Sorry

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I wish that word had more power. Like the power to heal a heart like the person saying it wished it did. The power to stop the hurting forev...
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What's wrong with what's wrong?

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What's wrong with "What's wrong?" Ever hear people ask the question, "What's wrong?" whenever something'...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

The Communion of Breath

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The origin of man as Spirit is in the heart of God, and the birth of man as a physical being is in the breath of God. Man was born in a face...
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Thursday, May 30, 2019

A Different Take on Balancing Life and Ministry

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From my perspective, the whole concept of balance IS stress. Go stand on a fencepost. Feel relaxed? Here’s another way to look at it. Take ...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Stir it Up

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I'm not starting this with anything in particular to write.  It's just that I haven't written in awhile so I'm going to st...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Agape

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If you dare to squint the eyes of your heart to see the good in people, you may get blinded by the twisted, the broken, the parched, the fra...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hard Lessons

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Hard lessons from 26 years of marriage that I want my kids to know. (1 minute 26 seconds of read time)  You're going to do some thing...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Life in Austin, Texas Was Like...Nicky the Stranger

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(I never want to forget what it was like to live in the weirdest city in America. Austin will always be a home to me. This was in 2014.) A...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A New Covenant Clarity

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Everything from the Old Covenant needs to be interpreted through the New Covenant. In the New Covenant we have 1 Corinthians 13 (Love keeps ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Busyness

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"Busyness is artificial significance." Bill Johnson. Busyness isn't the cure for laziness. To me, laziness isn't a lack ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Why I Believe

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I believe in God because of Jesus. I believe in Jesus because of the resurrection. And I believe in the resurrection because of the discipl...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Interwoven in Christ

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Col 2:2-3 Paul’s outlining the priorities for what he wants to see in every believer and every church here in this verse and it’s staggeri...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Deep Lessons

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We learn some of the deepest lessons in some of the darkest valleys. But we don't often realize what we've learned in the valley of ...