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It takes courage to stand with Scripture in a culture hostile to its moral compass. Sometimes it takes even more courage to stand up to your own religious peers when they are the ones capitulating to that culture.

Have you set aside 40 days to be sure you’re doing what God wants, to prepare yourself to do what God wants, or to address something in your life so that you’re living the way God wants?

And there is only one cure. It is not another law, though new ones may be needed; it is not a change in policing, though changes may be needed. Those are band-aids—helpful, perhaps, but band-aids. They do not address the disease.

We make resolutions because we want to bring change to bear on our circumstances. We want to improve ourselves and our quality of life. And the top resolutions, for most people, tend to revolve around the same three poles: money, health and family.

We added a number of automated functionalities that allow us to do such things as schedule pages, events, informational pop-ups with a direct “call to action” (CTA) and more, to go live/hide automatically. Our administrative team now genuflects in our tech team’s direction.

The poor and their children are more likely to be displaced. Disasters, resource limitation and conflict can cause massive displacement of people within and between countries.

Too many churches are trapped in the Sisyphus dynamic of continually pursuing something that involves high effort and low reward, or even no reward.

If I could go back in time, what would I tell that young church planter in 1992? What things didn’t I know then, and what things did I commit to then that I’ve found were well worth the commitment?