Before I became a pastor, I was a professional bass player. (I play both electric and upright). And when I was still learning to play my upright bass my fingers would crack and bleed to the point that my instructor wanted me to take a break from playing…Well, obviously that wasn’t an option (because I’m […]
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“The ending of my story isn’t wonderful so far… But it’s getting there.” We met Keith when he called in recently to our Jesus is Real radio show. “It’s gotten me through a lot,” he said. Abused as a child, Keith turned to alcohol and marijuana to cope at age 14. At that pivotal time […]
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I want to be honest with you guys: there are days I want to give up…For example, I love being a pastor, but ministry is tough! And some days, I have the fleeting thought, “Something else would be so much easier.” But that’s not really true, is it? For all of us – no matter […]
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For all of us, there’s an inevitable side benefit to being human, and it’s this: if life is a journey, sooner or later we all lose our way. Every journey begins with a single step in the right direction, but as life goes on, when we don’t have our eyes fixed on the outcome, it’s […]
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“I was beyond shocked. I knew that a miracle had happened!” In the midst of our most challenging experiences, so often we can feel like we’re in a fog, desperate for the light to break through. For more than ten years, Lori and her adult daughter Shanda knew what it was like to live in […]
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