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Church Planting in Burton, MI
We started our house church July 3rd, 2024 partnering with Roots Church Network. Our first meeting was just with our kids where we explained what we were doing and got their input on doing it. They happily came up with ideas of what it could look like, who we should invite, what we needed (1st on their list, of course, was a trampoline because Art Thomas’ house church has a trampoline!). It was beautiful to dream together with our kids and share our heart for making disciples with them. Since then, we have had 6-8 beautiful people join us besides our family (the majority of the house church being kids!😊).…
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Jesus is Better than the Bible
I tend to imagine that in every generation of Christianity, there comes a point when we stop following Jesus and start following our well-developed religion. And in some ways, we can even put the Bible above Jesus or think that Jesus is synonymous with the Bible. Jesus is not the Bible. I have gone through seasons of having great confidence (or pride) of my “perfected” wisdom, having things figured out, or had my focus on anything but the main thing. Jesus is the main thing. In the book of Hebrews, the writer compares Jesus with many different things. He concludes in all of them that Jesus is better. He even…
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His Life for Mine
Growing up in a Christian household and hearing a gospel presentation, my understanding at that time consisted of knowing that I was a sinner destined for hell and needed to ask Jesus for salvation. With childlike faith, I did so. Yet, it wasn’t until my teenage years, when I began to sense the weight of sin in my own life, that I realized there hadn’t been much visible change in me since my salvation (or so it seemed). Because I was being taught morals, I knew that I was still a sinner and felt secretly horrible about that. There had to be something more to Christianity than a ticket to…
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Jesus Changed My Life
Is there meaning to this life? Why does life have to hurt so much? There is no easy answer to these questions. Our pain and challenges in life are personal. They often consume our thinking and emotions and end up defining who we are. If we are going to find ultimate meaning in life, it can’t be something made up. And it can’t be something un-personal or inauthentic to the real world with real world struggles. What does God have to say about all this? Thankfully, God has provided an answer to all the pain and suffering in the world. It is real, and it is really personal. How personal…
