Here is my sermon on the last portion of Mark 2, where Jesus is doing a bunch of stuff on the Sabbath. The leaders of Jesus’ day had so many Sabbath regulations that it was hard to keep track. Jesus knew them all though and went through breaking the ones they made up in an […]
Bill Hybels Opening GLS 2017 Talk – Give Leadership Away
Bill Hybels’ opening of the Global Leadership Summit is always a good one. He did about 4 different mini-talks in 2017, but they were mostly all good. Here are my notes from one of them. One of the best quotes was this one: The world is still wondering if there are still leaders that put […]
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Doing Life in Groups and Teams
Ecclesiology is as much about what you don’t say as what you say. This is something they say a lot at One Life: At One Life we do life in groups and teams. Not to speak for One Life, but I want to offer my own commentary on this. This is one 2017 paradigm of […]
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Easter 2017 – Many Were Afraid of Jesus
Here are my notes and the recording of my Easter sermon this year. Notes get crazy at the end, but I dump them here for your ease. Download: Easter-20170416 Jesus Arrested by an Army The Jewish leaders were Afraid of Jesus rising from the dead. The city would have been crowded as ever. Passover filled […]
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Numbers Part 3 – Aaron, the Priest Line between Life and Death
This section is one of my favorites from the whole Bible. God is teaching Moses and Aaron to represent Him with self-sacrificing compassion. He Himself is going to die for people that grumble against Him, and here He is doing a little bit of that kind of training on Moses and Aaron.
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Numbers Part 2 – Plagues and Devotion
Here are some cool bits from early in Numbers. People are dedicated to the Lord and being formed into His people. At the same time, Moses and Aaron are being formed into High Priests – the men that will represent God to the people and vice versa.