For Your Own Good

If you ever played in an organized sport, you likely remember your coach telling you to get some rest before a big game. If you ever traveled for a team sporting event, your coach likely gave you and your teammates a curfew that was strictly enforced (e.g., if you broke curfew, you would be benched). […]

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Part 13 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there. Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!! Even the Best of Us Fail – blog – 8/16/25 Let us be inspired by the simple fact that the Lord,

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Part 12 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there. Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional. Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!! Even the Best of Us Fail

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Even the Best of Us Fail

The apostle Peter was an interesting man. In one sense, his fervency for Christ was legendary but, in another sense, as most of us can easily relate, he failed in very big ways. Peter was a dichotomy. While he possessed an incredible sense of purpose and conviction, he often lacked the faith necessary to deliver

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Part 11 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there. Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional. Being made in the image of our Creator, we must have integrity TO our Creator! Integrity

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Part 10 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: If commitment, responsibility, and accountability are the end goals, then INTEGRITY is the means to ensuring you get there. Convictions (like most things in the spiritual life) are not transactional; rather, they are constitutional. Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!! Hiding Behind False Nobility – blog

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Part 9 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Think about the power of stopping/starting something FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE AROUND US (even if you don’t “feel like it”). Think about how you can affect your loved ones going forward, in both of your families (natural and church). Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!!

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Part 8 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

OPENING: Psalm 100 KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Commitment to the local church means that, as a member, you are committing to God’s will for your church. Of principle value to this commitment is your obedience in the church (e.g., to the Word and to God’s delegated authority). Commitment, in God’s eyes, is very simple.

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Hiding Behind False Nobility

Hiding Behind False Nobility I’m hoping someday God asks me to write a book on this topic because it is so very prevalent and nuanced that it’s impossible to capture my thoughts in a single blog like this one. Please allow me to suggest a working definition for the term “false nobility” here – it’ll

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