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People don’t stay poor for a lack of programs. People stay poor for a lack of power.
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When you walk through disruption and discomfort, you find faith and freedom on the other side.
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To be honest, there have been countless preachers living homogenous lives and just preaching the love of Jesus to homogenous congregations for centuries.
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Whatever influences your political beliefs or wherever you fall on the spectrum—from a completely disassociated hippie living in a van down by the river to the other extreme where your politics are completely inseparable from the rest of your identity—you have to agree that politics are everywhere these days.
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Let me ask you…how well do you neighbor? Do you know the names of your neighbors? Do you know their stories…their needs? If the reason you don’t know them is not because you are in a different stage of life, then maybe busyness is to blame. Maybe you don’t really know your neighbors or love…
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The church I get to pastor, Multiply Church, recently participated in an incredible display of church unity with over 100 other churches in the Charlotte metro area. Local churches of different socioeconomic, denominational, and ethnic make-ups together focused on loving our neighbor. The reach of this effort spanned over 60,000 people here in the Charlotte…
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(This is a continuation from last week’s post. You can find the first part here.) To illustrate the answer, and the accompanying framework that hopefully simplifies it for us, let me tell a story… My wife, Emily, works for a large financial corporation and recently transitioned into a role where she analyzes the effectiveness of…
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What is the Kingdom of God? If you are in any way a church person, of course you’ve heard or read about the Kingdom of God. But how would you define it and what does it have to do with you? I’m sure these are not questions many people walking around asking in their heads…
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What’s up with all these people leaving the church? This might help to clue us in…
Five Minutes of Encouragement 