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The progression seems simple enough – We are spiritual beings first therefore real meaning of life is going to found in the spiritual. We were created and designed for intimate relationships. Relationships have great meaning to us. God designed these relationships to be both vertical (with Himself) and horizontal (with others). The best way to [...]

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Another incredible morning. Sermon will be uploaded soon (whillschurch.org). We had some MAJOR glitches behind the scenes this week. The worship center computer crashed plus the projector wouldn’t come on and had to be reset. On Thursday, it me that we needed to serve communion. Gary H. did a great job at getting us set [...]

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Another great weekend. I was pleasantly surprised with our crowd given this was Memorial Day weekend and the first real weekend of good weather around here. I remember last year, church felt like a ghost town. Not at all this year. I was also totally surprised by how few people knew who Bear Grylls was. [...]

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Wow. What a start to a series. Yesterday we dealt with bitterness and I’m already hearing God-stories. The highlights for me: The only solution to bitterness is forgiveness. Only those who’ve been forgiven can really give forgiveness. And forgiveness is NOT about justifying the hurt. It’s about moving us to a place to be healed. [...]

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Today we wrapped up Broken Dreams and the series turned out to be much ‘heavier’ than any of us anticipated. I don’t think that is a bad thing, just an observation. Abraham’s life is a study in 2 steps forward, 1 step back (sometimes more than 1 step) kind of faith. And God is both [...]

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Yesterday we finished Lot’s story in our series on Broken Dreams. I can honestly say it was one of the heaviest messages I’ve preached. The story is the most bizarre in scripture but the principles that it teaches are the kind that just cut to the bone. And God intersected my life with Francis Chan’s [...]

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This Easter we will dive back into the book of Genesis focusing on the life of Abraham. Easter? Abraham? Genesis? Broken dreams? How does it all fit? If you think about it, it all fits very nicely. We’re introduced to Abram in Genesis 12 with God giving Abram His dream for his life. That his [...]

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Here is the new trailer for the series we will start on Sunday. Broken Dreams…

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“There is no way we could ever pull that off.” That’s a direct quote from a pastor friend of mine when he heard about our current series Sacred Rituals. He saw our trailer for the series and when he heard that we played that music while we shared communion as a church two weeks ago [...]

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We start our new series Sacred Rituals on Sunday. (Trailer here and we didn’t get 20 comments, so Rick is off the hook.) I hope we’re able to do more than just educate about the rituals but also experience them. I hope people reach a new level of awe and wonder with God as a [...]

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