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Everything below is cut from Matt Troupe's FB wall.  Read at your own risk! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are some quotes from the talk I heard with Jeff Vandersteldt recently. Some are summaries and paraphrases of major points. Lots of great stuff to wrestle with. • Biblical disciples cannot be made in a classroom, and Biblical disciples cannot… Read More

Vacationing with our kids (minus Andrew who couldn't get away from nursing school) and grand kids at the OBX this week.  Hoping for a full recovery of sanity by the weeks' end.  Read More

New Spring Church baptized 906 people last weekend.  Just thought you might want to know that.   Read More

This from M.D. and the good folks at Mars Hill.  I love it. Leadership is lonely. Anyone who disagrees is likely not a leader. By definition, a leader is out ahead of his or her team, seeing, experiencing, and learning things before everyone else. One on hand, this causes great excitement and enthusiasm because the opportunity to learn and pioneer is incredibly invigorating. On the other hand, however, the distance between a leader and… Read More

Somnolence – “the state of being sleepy or drowsy.” Languor – “a lack of vigor or vitality, indifference.” Lethargy – “a condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor.” In a game of word association, I hope you would never associate any of these words with your church.  Never.  If anything thrills, inspires, energizes, it ought to be our churches.  The local church is the hope of the world.  We are deployed on the… Read More