Category: Creative Arts
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The Media Influence
In the last 50 years, media has quickly risen to the top as the #1 influence on Western Culture. Below are five reasons that have driven that accent to such a paramount place in our lives. While I’m not celebrating this fact, I’d much rather see the Church as the #1 influence in our culture.…
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do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth!
It is widely accepted that the following statistics on communication hold true… 55% of communication is physiological: your mannerisms, how you sit, etc. 38% of communication is tonal: your voice inflection, how you sound, etc. 7% of communication is verbal: the actual words you say That means that 93% of what you convey has nothing…
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First impressions
It was 14 years ago. Lisa and I had recently been married and I had just gone on staff at my first church as a Youth Pastor. She was finishing her teaching degree driving an hour each way to and from school. I was full on diving into ministry, trying to change the world. It…
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This Valley
This past year I watched one of the most gifted and talented worship leaders that I’ve ever been around walk through an incredibly difficult pregnancy that resulted in a painful loss for their family. In the middle of it all I watched that same family demonstrate a resiliency and faith in God that is rarer…
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Spontaneous Baptism
A week ago Lisa and I took a quick trip out to Atlanta to nail down a rental house. While we were in town we had the opportunity to attend a worship service at North Metro and were blown away by how the Lord moved. The preceding week the Staff had wrestled through the idea…