Author: John W. Crowder
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Drawing Near: What Our Church Is Doing for the Next 40 Days
Draw Near runs from April 26 through June 7, and it touches nearly every part of our church life.
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Have You Tried Rebooting It?
We exhaust every option before we reboot the computer. Turns out, we do the same thing with prayer — and it costs us more than we realize.
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Living on Purpose
Will we allow the day to happen to us, or will we step into it with clarity and purpose?
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The Legacy of a Small Bible
My father gave this small Bible to my Uncle Dale back in the 1950s. Even after my dad died, Uncle Dale kept up with it and carried it in his pocket at my wedding. Almost 30 years later he gave it to me with a heartfelt inscription after I had been through a very difficult…
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The Five Stages of Spiritual Community: How a Small Group Grows
Healthy groups don’t skip these steps; they move through them in order, naturally and prayerfully.
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Feeding Hungry Sheep
When John Milton wrote the line, “The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,” he was not speaking about literal sheep, but about people. He was thinking about people who come to church but are starving because those who are supposed to feed them fail to do so. When Milton wrote that in 1638, it was common…
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Love Your Kids Enough to be Hypocritical
The goal of parenting is not to be consistent with your past; it is to be faithful with your responsibility.
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Friendship is Intentional
“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24 Friendship is one of God’s sweetest gifts, but Scripture reminds us that it is not automatic. Proverbs 18:24 draws an important distinction. It is possible to have many companions and still feel alone,…
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