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Step Ten: ‘I’m Right; You’re Irrelevant’

Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Today we’re going to take this right/wrong thing to a whole new level. We’re going to give up the need to be right and conclude … Continue reading

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Now What?

by John Shirk Now What? The last three days have been about reframing discipleship. It’s more than attending meetings and studying the play book. It involves playing on the team under the guidance of the coach. It isn’t simply learning … Continue reading

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A Lesson from the NFL

by John Shirk A Lesson from the NFL I’m a fan of NFL football and the San Francisco Forty Niners. Every Fall, I enjoy watching men who have devoted their lives to becoming the best football players in the world … Continue reading

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Follow Me

by John Shirk Follow Me The Great Commission is to make disciples. Jesus instructed us to teach them everything He commanded. Let’s look at His first command to His first disciples. In Matthew 1 Jesus tells Peter and Andrew, “Come, … Continue reading

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Following Jesus

by John Shirk Following Jesus It is common to hear Christians speak of the Great Commission as the marching orders of the church. Jesus’ last instructions to His disciples were to go into all the world and make disciples. I … Continue reading

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How Much Do I Owe You?

A story told by Kent Nerburn Several years ago, a cab driver arrived late at night for a pick-up at a building that was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, he normally … Continue reading

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‘Relationships, relationships, relationships’

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) In the real estate world it’s known as “location, location, location.” Where a property is located determines its value more than anything else. In the church and in all types … Continue reading

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Honoring women

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Ruth, Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Esther, Abigail … We have a tendency to think of these women of the Bible as exceptions to the rule. They are not. Many of you … Continue reading

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What you think about what someone else thinks

(Click here for a video of John reading today’s Catch.) Chandler is all over aliens, meteorites, and UFO sightings, so you can understand how some of the sites we passed while driving through Arizona, Colorado and especially New Mexico might … Continue reading

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Love for no reason

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) For the life of our marriage, quite consistently, my wife has loved me for no reason.  Now in case you’re wondering, that’s a good thing — a very good thing, … Continue reading

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