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Its amazing what you can learn from your kids. Most of you know that I started a journey through the New Testament in 30 days. This has really opened my heart and mind to learning Gods word.

Just when I thought my weekly daddy daughter date night would turn out the same as most, I pulled out a Fun Dip and my daughter went crazy. You should have seen her face…it was priceless. As we started our sugar filled adventure I was attempting to teach my daughter the correct way to eat her newly acquired snack art and you could see the look of anticipation like never before. Not surprised my daughter was soon a pro eating her fun filled treat. Just like most of us, my daughter started eating the candy stick between licks and had soon resulted to her finger. I took a quick break to answer an email and when I looked up from my BlackBerry there was my daughter with her fun dip packaged ripped open with her head tilted back savoring every ounce of fun.

At that moment I thought we need to take the Fun Dip approach to learning about God.  When was the last time you were so overly excited with Joy to learn about God that you forgot what you were doing in the moment?  Why don’t we read scripture after scripture?  Why can’t there be a desire to not stop until we consume all the Scriptures much like my daughter would not stop until all off the sugar was gone?  We don’t rip God’s word open and tip back our head because we are so desperate to know Him.  Why?  Why?

Start today, never look back and change your world one lick at a time!  Challenge yourself now.

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There has been this ongoing debate about the XXX Church who is now based in Las Vegas. This Church founded by Craig Gross, ministers to the women who have been forced into the porn world so they could provide a means of income. It is not unusual to find XXX Church at the major porn conventions passing out Bibles and shirts that say, “Jesus Loves Porn Stars.” The “Church” has many stories of lives that have been changed because of their ministry. I mentioned before that XXX Church made a recent move to Las Vegas and have started another church called Strip Church (before for you get your panties in a bunch, the church is located on the Vegas strip).

There are definitely opposing Christians to this movement. The organization has posted, in the past, hate mail from conservatives and liberals a like. So, you be the judge and tell me what you think. Is this real ministry or is it just a publicity stunt?

If you are stuggling with porn you can see a post I wrote with some resources click here.

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1. I dream of being Bear Grylls.
2. I always think about winning the lottery but never play.
3. I’m addicted to the internet, not any one site, just the internet in general.
4. I’m secretly a computer geek.
5. I have the best wife and daughter in the world.
6. I love playing sports.
7. I hate cabbage.
8. I love everything to be in order but hate organization.
9. I tend to over commit myself.
10. I want to write a book.
11. I am going to run for local government.
12. I always act like I don’t like chick flicks, but I love to watch them with my wife.
13. I want a tattoo but will probably never get one.
14. I played basketball in Puerto Rico on and All Star team.
15. I was in a chess club in the 8th grade.
16. I love helping people, but hate social gatherings.
17. Mountain biking is my new sport.
18. For the firsts time in my life I don’t drive a truck. I drive a Honda Civic.
19. Most of the time people think I know what I’m talking about but I’m usually making it up.
20. Someone once told me I walk a thin line between cockiness and confidence. (You be the judge)
21. I want to live in Mexico one day.
22. I would have no problem living in the days of cowboys and Indians.
23. I have a Kentucky drivers license but have lived in Indiana over 2 years…Oops!
24. I’m always thinking about new business ideas.
25. I’ve had many jobs in my life.. I’ve bagged groceries, worked on a farm, worked at Brady Nursery, been a referee, counselor at kid’s day camp, telemarketer, server, host, trash man, framer, handyman, youth pastor, coached high school football, security guard, helped start a non profit, flooring specialist, residential youth worker, foster care supervisor, free lance graphic designer, general manager of apparel and promotional company and i still want to be a…police officer, bounty hunter, chef, city council man, mayor and a church planter.

26. I love Judge Judy

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Proverbs say, “as water reflects a man’s face so does a man’s heart reflect the man.”  So my question is who is your heart reflecting?  Is it Jesus?  I heard a coworker say today that Christians are the leading cause for Atheism.  It really doesn’t matter if she is right or wrong.  What matters is if our hearts are reflecting Jesus.  Right?

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There are lots of joys of being a dad.  There is something that is unexplainable when my daughter shows her reliance on me.  Recently my daughter woke up from her nap in a very different way.  She usually cries when she wakes up but this time she had a bit of angst in her cry.  Upon hearing her cry I quickly walked into her room and saw something that I was not prepared for.  My daughter stood at the corner of her bed with her little arms stretched as far has she could reaching for someone to save her.  I scanned her crib to survey the situation and I found her diaper lying in the middle of her bed and poop everywhere.  I forgot to put her pants back on her after I changed her diaper before putting her down for bed and the result of my mistake was a mess!  My daughter starts to whine louder because I did not remove her immediately from the situation.  My daughter was helpless.  Even though it was her mess she could not clean up the situation.  That is exactly how our lives are before we enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ.  There are three things that i realized from this poppie mess, I realized that we

1.  We don’t need encouragement – I could have really encouraged my daughter. “Come on Addison you can clean up your mess!”  Same goes for our lives.  Although encouragement makes us feel good it doesn’t help us clean up the mess we have made of our lives.

2.  We don’t need self help – My daughter didn’t need a 10 step program to cleaning up poop.  All though self help programs seem appealing to help clean up our lives…the fact is that they will always come up short because of one key work “self”

3.  We need to be rescued – There was only one way my daughter was getting out of that messy situation, I had to rescue her.  Just like my daughter the only way you will ever clean up your life is to allow Jesus to rescue you from a situation that is destined to produce failure and we can only be cleaned up if  Jesus has our heart.

No matter what situation you find yourself in the only answer is to allow yourself to be rescued.  To learn more about allowing Jesus to rescue your life click here.

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What if the Church could be the answer to Jesus’ Prayer?

We pray to Jesus asking Him to answer our prayers – what if we became the answer to His? In John 17:20-24, He prayed that we would be one, and One Prayer is an opportunity to see what can be accomplished when the Church works together. Jesus has a vision for His church and I fear that we are not answering His prayer. Look at what happens when a few hundred churches decide to join together as one. In 2008 here is what happened:

Pastors Enrolled: 609
Evangelistic Contacts: 65,563
Bible Study Participants: 44,618
Baptisms: 7,112
Churches Planted: 667

I can’t wait to see what God is going to do this year at One Prayer 2009.  For more information go to http://www.oneprayer.com

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“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”

Do you ever wonder why we have to struggle through life’s challenges? The times in life we grow the most is when we are standing on life’s summit looking down at the valley and all the mud and the muck that we have traveled through. We realize that the trials we went through shaped our lives into something that we never thought we would see. Our response to situations surprised us. The sheer determination developed a hunger in our hearts to never give up.

I will never forget the phone call I received from a very scared and worried young man. It was a phone call that i wasn’t prepare for. The young man started to tell me how his dad was packing up and moving out of the house. In his time of struggle he was looking to me for an answer. As a young youth pastor I was wordless and had no idea what to say to this hurting young man. With the feeling of inadequacies came rushing to our conversations I quickly grabbed my bible. It wasn’t too much longer and I turned straight to Romans 5:3-5. These verses basically instruct us to rejoice in our long sufferings. The in midst of trouble God tells us to rejoice. WOW! How awesome is our God that he can turn a tragedy into something that shapes our future in a positive manner. Next time you are in a deep valley and it feels like you can’t even see the surface, remember to rejoice in the midst of pain and see how God’s plan will strengthen your perseverance, build your character and instill the hope of God.

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