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WE are the World :: Six Degrees of Separation

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As the world comes together for the 2008 Summer Olympics on 8/8/08, I am reminded of the new study reported just about a week ago regarding the phenomena referred as six degrees of separation. The finding reveals it is […]

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Looking for a Church

After almost fifteen years, I started looking for a church again. I felt it was time. Maybe it was God telling me it was time. The problem I had was finding a place that wasn’t filled with hypocrisy, legalistic teaching, condemnation and the like. The gospel, as I believe, is about good news.
Back in Colorado […]

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Steve Crawford: We Have Overcome, Lakewood Worship

Steve Crawford is part of the team that leads worship services at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. You may have heard more of the minister there, Joel Osteen. I have no doubt the worship music there has significantly helped produce the approximately 40,000 attendees this church has every weekend. Steve is from Columbus, Ohio and […]

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Lakewood Church: Music for Worship

The worship music at Lakewood Church is hard to explain. Here are two of my favorites by Cindy Cruse Ratcliff and Israel Houghton, Your Love and Everywhere That I go. You just have to hear it. I really haven’t been able to really explain this but know that up until a couple of years ago, […]

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Christian Cardiology: It’s all about your heart.

If there is something that becomes ever increasingly clear with age, it is that “it’s” all about your heart. What is the it’s? It’s can and could be that anything which comes at what I have heard defined as that defining moment. You know, those things you will realize when all the unimportant things are […]

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The Bucket List Problem: Typical Hollywood Drama (bs)

The new movie, The Bucket List, has people talking. And when I first heard about it, it sounded like a must see movie to me. Until I saw a preview. Let me explain.
Here’s the gist. The Bucket List stars Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, both whom are recently found to have terminal illnesses. The bucket […]

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Easter SUNDAY

I celebrated Easter today at Jobing.com Arena with the Vineyard Church of North Phoenix. There was a poignant presentation on the events of the last day Jesus was alive. Easter is often the only time so many take an hour or so and consider the meaning of His message.
It’s in the Message that I am […]

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