Is There A Wrong Way to Do “Morning Devotions”?
21 Aug 2021

Is There A Wrong Way to Do “Morning Devotions”?

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At 5:47 A.M. on Monday, I started sobbing. Walking in a dark woods where nobody could see me, I ugly cried. At one point, I had to stop walking because I couldn’t see straight. I had been listening to a song whose lyrics spoke into a wound my therapist and I had been discussing for months. The truth of Scripture in the lyrics broke me—or more accurately, poured into my brokenness. This was not the first time this has happened, not even on this mountain.

An Ohio Church Plant and an Animal Migration Bridge in Alberta
6 Sep 2016

An Ohio Church Plant and an Animal Migration Bridge in Alberta

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Candidly, the church through history has often made those instinctive journeys more dangerous. We’ve crushed lives and spooked others from progress. Even as we have attempted to build in-roads into secular culture, we have created more hurdles for someone to find their destiny on the other side of their church experience.

You Should Move Here, Too
22 Apr 2014

You Should Move Here, Too

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I chose to move to Lynchburg and have fallen in love with it enough to call it home. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that my wife and I are factors in my sister and some of our closest friends emigrating to what we lovingly call “LynchVegas.” Here are the selling points with which I would counter the Lynchburg skeptics.

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