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Tweet A college girl from our church sent me a text the other night saying she was struggling spiritually to find her place. She spent the summer interning at a church doing…
Tweet I usually clean out my spam folder in my email account several times a day. I don’t like seeing that number beside the word “Spamâ€. This morning as I…
Tweet The current debate is whether a believer could pray at the Democratic Convention for fear that he/she would be seen as endorsing a party. Frankly I don’t understand the…
Tweet We have some funny people in our church…and perhaps some with too much time on their hands. Have you seen the Ron Edmondson for President Campaign? Even I thought…
Tweet Even before I had children the Lord began to stir in my heart a strong desire to raise godly children. When I found myself with two boys of my…
Tweet I need to share my heart with you about a ministry God continues to bring to me.  For a couple years I’ve owned the domain name hurtingpastors.org. Right…
Tweet Our community group is going through Purpose Driven Life. For some of us this is a refresher and for others it is the first time. (Interestingly, everyone in the…
Tweet We have overnight guests this week, so I decided to use Cheryl’s bathroom to shower this morning because it’s the most private one in the house. I think I…
Tweet As a minister, I hear about fear a lot. I decided to compile my own list of the 5 greatest fears of “real†people. (This list includes people like…
Tweet This morning I shared the Top 10 Reasons You Need to Be In a Community Group.  Since many of my readers are from other churches, I thought I’d share…
Tweet I was reading the Luke version of the feeding of the 5,000 and I saw something in the disciples that I often see in me. You know the story….
Tweet What is the balance between helping someone in need and enabling them in a perpetual cycle of bad behavior? Honestly, I never know. In ministry we always have opportunities…
Tweet I like the fact that God still has me under construction and that I’m not afraid to learn. That part of me was beneficial recently as God had a…
Tweet In a June post I asked the question “What is God Up To with Youth Today?†This morning I received an email from a friend’s son. This 22 year…