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In Sickness and In Health
March 6, 2023 Journal entry Things were going well at the start of the year; life was good, I was healthy, and the church was excited about the expansion plans. Yet, there was something in my soul that I had to wrestle with. I had to go back and ask myself this question. How do…
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Welcome to Messy Church
The past few weeks we have been studying the marks of the church by looking at the New testament church – a church that has impacted millions of people until today. One of the things that struck me was the series on community. I have been pastoring for the past twelve years (2007-2019) at Victory…
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Mark 10:1-12 Jesus and Divorce
Mark 10:2-12 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from…
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Death and Hope: Losing a Loved One and Coping with It
Last 2017’s Christmas was different from all others. Last November 30, 2017, my mom passed away after fighting cancer for four years. It was a tough battle, with a lot of emotional highs and lows for the entire family. This is our family’s first fight with death, and this is also our family’s first…
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The Unsung People during Funerals
I don’t know if they ever get noticed or if somebody actually says thank you to them every time they attend the funeral and serve. Without them, a funeral won’t be complete. Unsung is defined as a person who makes a substantive yet unrecognized contribution; I am talking about the choir volunteers/ worship teams that serve…