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My Persistent Prayer

Hey LFC Directors and Elders – (I sent this as an email this morning, and invite all of you who read this blog to apply it to your ministry and the people God has for you to love) I listened to Greg TeSelle's July 4th sermon on ‘Pers...

Posted on July 19, 2010 in Bible, Leadership, Spiritual Growth | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Breath Prayer: "Abba, I belong to you"

Today I invite you to share a weekly prayer journey during Lent - each Sunday we will teach and 'try on' a specific type of prayer during the worship service. We will blog and Facebook those instructions on Monday, and I hope you will th...

Posted on February 18, 2013 in Bible, Spiritual Growth | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Frontier of the Spiritual Life

Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life. Real prayer is life creating and life changing.“Prayer--secret , fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness,” writes William Carey. To pray is to chan...

Posted on February 27, 2013 in Spiritual Growth | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Religious Jesus and Me

As I stand in front of God and everybody on a Sunday and bodly claim to speak FOR the former TO the latter, I am often spoken to myself. Sometimes gently, other times not. By the WORD i have just spoken to others. Such was the case whe...

Posted on August 17, 2010 in Bible, Spiritual Growth | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Brunch with the Barstool Pastor

BarstoolinsideHarvey's

A year ago I told you about a new LFC guy who goes by the handle of Barstool Pastor. Many of you fell in love with his mission (the post http://mikemoses.typepad.com/purple_pastor/2010/05/barstool-pastor.html)I want to give you an updat...

Posted on May 13, 2011 in Food and Drink, Missio Dei, Relationships | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Friends, You Have Helped Us

I was reminded today of a stirring letter written from a couple in our church to the others at LFC who they've 'done life with,' since the couple began to follow Jesus a few years ago. Last Sunday, we unveiled another aspect of Lake Fore...

Posted on May 20, 2010 in Church, Parenting, Spiritual Growth | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Little Big Things Yesterday

My oldest son, Dylan, had surgery to repair a torn ACL yesterday. Some little things were done for us, in love, that demonstrated and pointed to the Kingdom of God in big ways. I can remember heady, early 90's days of punk Gen Xers lik...

Posted on October 13, 2011 in Church, Food and Drink, Life Observations, Relationships, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Fellow Christians: A pastor worships at three local churches

As I journey through Greece and Italy, I will visit a few interesting new churches, pastored by men and women with a heart to reach post-Christian (frankly philosophically hopeless) Europeans with the good news of the love of Jesus Chris...

Posted on June 29, 2012 in Church, Leadership | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Comment by Jaye on “Always have the poor”

Denny, I debated in responding to your post, for fear that the dialog would denegrate to a negati...

Posted by: Jaye | September 05, 2008 at 09:16 PM

Both/And

Yesterday I decided to offer an extended pastoral prayer in worship - a bit unusual for me. I excitedly planned to pray on behalf of the sanctity of life, specifically regarding the protection of life in the womb in America, the thrivin...

Posted on January 19, 2009 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

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Books Beside My Bed

Robinson, Sarah J.: I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die: Finding Hope in the Darkness of Depression
Helpful book I read as a servant to those who are depressed and even despairing of life. If that's you. Please read this right now. and please talk to me.
Ardrey, Adam: Finding Arthur: The True Origins of the Once and Future King
compelling argument that King Arthur was a Scot. Enjoy
Cloud, Henry: Necessary Endings
super wise biblically based counsel. the source material for our post Easter sermon series
Kendall, R.T.: Holy Fire: A Balanced, Biblical Look at the Holy Spirit's Work in Our Lives
This is my primary textbook as I attempt to discover and release all the Holy Spirit has for me as a disciple, and Lake Forest as a church
Perry, Michael: Deliverance: Psychic Disturbances And Occult Movement: Fully Updated And Expanded Edition (SPCK Classics)
As I seek to learn more about the Holy Spirit, I'm also learning more about other benign and malevolent spiritual influences in our world. this is a MEASURED church of England look at instances of departed spirits attached to places, poltergeists, exorcisms, and more.
Angie Moses: Flying Home
My wife Angie published her first novel a few years ago. #1 I'm proud of her. #2 It's stinkin' good (tension between dreams and duty for a young mother). #3 This book will never be published and stocked in a 'Christian' bookstore with the picture of a beatific looking prairie woman on the front wearing a bonnet - there's grittiness of real life like happens to real people, and perhaps some grace. #4 This link is to the Kindle version, look below for paperback also. #5 Angie had in mind precisely the type of 'given up on church but not on God' folks we love so much to welcome at Lake Forest as she wrote.