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It may have been around longer, but it has only been in the last few years that I began to hear the term “church hurt.” It seems primarily to be used to describe pain that one believes has been unjustifiably inflicted on them by a church. And I know that…

Amongst famous movie lines, probably none is so poignant as that of An Officer and a Gentleman. In the courtroom declaration of Colonel Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson) when Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) demands the truth. Colonel Jessup emphatically informs the Lieutenant, “You Can’t Handle the Truth!” Well, in…

This summer, at Lake Church, I’m preaching a mini-series called “The Summer I Turned Pious.” In this series of motivating messages, we are carefully examining the Epistle that Paul wrote specifically to the Church at Philippi with the clear understanding that it was, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,…

Six of the most Powerful and Profound words in all of the Bible are found in a rather obscure verse in John’s Gospel. These six words provide the Information Needed and the Inspiration Necessary for today’s devotional challenge.

Late one frigid winter night, I received one of those heart-dropping-into-your-stomach kind of calls from my son; he had been in an accident.

It has been said that behind every good man is a good woman. In the case of the Apostolic Missionary Timothy, the Bible tells us of the two women that were behind him.