We are getting closer and closer to the February 24th publication of our book, Finding Your Way Back To God! The book now has an official landing page: www.yourwayback.org! The landing page will give you links to everything you’ll want to know including how to purchase the book, a few endorsements (including Rick Warren and Mark…
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Series Big Idea: A Questionable Life Weekend Big Idea: Questionable Relationships Throughout Jesus’ life we find him eating and spending time with people the religious elite of his day considered very questionable: prostitutes, drunkards, people on the margins: women, the poor, and ethnic minorities. He even ate with tax collectors who were considered the lowest…
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Today marks the end of an era in my house. My son, Graham returned from his 7th year in a row at BLAST, our Student Community Winter Conference. He is a senior in high school, so this is his final year to participate as a student. This year over 1200 students and leaders converged on…
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For as long as I can remember, at Community, we’ve always started our meetings with the question, “Where are we winning?” Here are 5 reasons why: #1 – “Where are we winning?” gets the meeting started on a positive note. Let’s face it, many meetings can get off to a tough start when we immediately dive into problem-solving or…
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A short 60-page booklet titled, “Can I Find My Way Back To God” is available starting today! This is the first in a series of tools surrounding our new book, Finding Your Way Back To God. This booklet is designed to introduce the topic of finding your way back to God. This booklet can be bought…
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At Community, we are in the second week of a new Big Idea Series, titled “A Questionable Life.” While preparing for one of the talks in this series, I ran across an article in the Huffington Post, and the writer mentioned that she had just started going to a church where they were in a series…
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Dave and I had a great time working on this video trailer for our upcoming book “Finding Your Way Back to God.” Special thanks to Eric Bramlett, Michael McClure, and TJ Friezen for working their video production magic. They did an amazing job. We are also grateful for all who participated in the shoot as…
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Occasionally someone will ask me, “Where did this phrase ‘finding your way back to God’ come from?” Here is the story . . . With just a handful of people and little money, Dave and I along with our small group of friends, set out to found a church in the Chicago area. It wasn’t long before we…
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