Nov 30
I have wanted to write about VidAngel for several months. VidAngel is a great online streaming movie service that allows you to filter the content of the movies. That’s right, you can take out foul language, sex scenes, violence, and other inappropriate content. You get to choose what content you want to take out before …
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May 17
The former blind man who had been healed by Jesus famously stated, “I was blind, but now I see” (John 9:25). I have not gone through quite as radical of change, but one that is pretty radical with my own vision. I have had poor eyesight all of my life. I started out wearing thick …
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Apr 21
Churches are in the saving business! Of course, I am speaking about saving people’s souls through the gospel of Jesus Christ. But what about saving someone’s physical life? We were faced with that task on a Wednesday night at 7 Oaks Church of Christ recently. Our normal Bible study portion had concluded and we were moving …
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Mar 15
We try to do nightly family devotionals. We typically keep ours pretty short (between 4 – 10 minutes). For the last year or so we have just sung songs that the kids knew by memory, or occasionally pulled out a song book. But we don’t have enough song books, and typically don’t want to take …
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Mar 03
I recently preached a series at 7 Oaks we called “Your New Normal.” The series was taken primarily from a series of lessons originally done by Andy Stanley called “In the Meantime.” My friend, Wes Hazel shared these lessons with me and his version of them as well. This series was well-received at 7 Oaks. …
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Dec 20
I finished, but I am not done! When I started this blog 3 years ago, I made a personal commitment to it for 3 years. I knew that most blogs die pretty quickly, but I wanted mine to persevere for at least three years. My goal was to write three posts a week on …
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Sep 29
The NFL season has begun, and it seems like this year is brought to us by Fantasy Sports companies judging from the amount of commercials. In truth, there has been an increase in the number of commercials for pay-to-play fantasy leagues. I haven’t noticed these types of leagues before, though they have been around for sometime. My …
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Aug 09
On July 31 – August 2 we were blessed to have Eric Lyons with us for the weekend. We called the seminar “6 Questions.” Eric addressed 6 of the most relevant and important questions in our world today. Eric is a great speaker, tremendous student of God’s word, and a faithful friend to my family. …
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Jul 28
Did you hear about the discovery of “Earth 2.0?” NASA announced recently the discovery of an earth-like planet called Kepler 452b. Scientists argue that there are likely many more planets like this one that exist in a similar dimension to a sun as Earth. These earth-like planets would possibly be able to sustain life, in …
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Jun 11
I got a date last night with my bride of 15 years before I spoke at a church in Paducah, Kentucky. The kids wanted to attend 7 Oaks so Amanda and I went over early and ate out together. We were enjoying our salad when our young waitress made this comment: “I really appreciate you …
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