Oct

31

Maturity and stories

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Concerning the spiritual discipline of encouragement…
This is a hard discipline for most of for two reasons.
1. Our personal stories - it’s full of disappointment, hurt, anger, abuse, and shame. How does one overcome that to BE an encourager for someone else?
2. Our immaturity - it takes someone with some level of maturity to […]

Oct

31

Missions Month

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November is Missions Month at Grace! I love it but it does present some challenges - like how to lead your LIFE Group through this month.
Here are a couple of ideas:
Here’s Life Inner City Boxes of Love - yesterday by the time I got to the top of the stairs, every one of the 150 […]

Oct

30

A Life That Rocks Posts

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Here are the posts, questions, and discussions for the entire “A Life That Rocks” series.
Inner Disciplines:
Prayer
Silence/Fasting
Marinate
Serve
Worship, Random Acts, More on Worship
Communal Disciplines:
Confession
Application & Accountability
Guidance
Encouragement, Questioning Evangelism

Oct

30

500th Post and a month off

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What an anti-climatic 500th post…A Sunday afternoon with a splitting sinus headache.
I’m watching the Broncos completely destroy the Eagles.
And I’m realizing that the next time I preach is December 11th. Kinda weird, huh? The good news is that I’ll now have some opportunities to grab some face time with our LIFE Group […]

Oct

30

Questioning Encouragement

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Who are some people who continually encourage you? Why do you think they do that?
Who are some people that you try to encourage?
Is it harder or easier for you to see past faults to potential? How come?
Which of the disciples (or women) do you most resonate with and their reactions to Jesus’ arrest?
I […]

Oct

29

Saturday Goals and other musings

Category: family ties, sports | 2 Comments

1. Clean out garage…to use it actually for the cars.
2. Driving Range with Cooper.
3. Find movie that Amy and I both want to watch tonight.
FFL Update…
CBS League - tied for first place in my division. I like my team against the others in my division but don’t know if that will translate […]

Oct

28

While we are at it

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At first I thought it was a joke…but apparently - we’re dead serious.
A lanyard for the iPod shuffle. Are we freakin’ serious?
If we are going to do stupid stuff like this - how about something useful…
a Christian X-box controller…
a LIVESTRONG band of many colors that shows the way to heaven…
downloadable hymn ringtones…
LIVING […]

Oct

27

The “Real” Andy Stanley??

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This might be the greatest prank in my blogdom world, but it’s worth it if it is…
Remember Catalyst Conference I went to? And my 10 minutes with Andy Stanley?
“Andy” commented - and honestly - it sounds exactly like him. Inviting, funny, self-effacing, and disarmingly humble. And I think I’m going to take him […]

Oct

27

Speaking at ABA

Category: youth ministry, weekly evos, leadership | 4 Comments

I’m speaking in an hour at Arkansas Baptist Academy all-school assembly. Middle schoolers and high schoolers…going to be fun. Below is what I’ll say.What are your top 5 goals of your life?Got your answers to those? Turn the person next to you and tell ‘em what they are. Here were mine […]

Oct

26

Heard in the Hallways of Grace Church

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Certain Financial Guru who keeps the ship fluid: “Grant, where are your receipts?”
G: (With a stack of receipts, folded, matted, stained, stapled, and mangled.) “Here they are.”
CFG: “Are these all of them?”
G: “All that I could find.”
CFG: “Why can’t you keep track of your receipts? Just drop them in a folder and […]

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