23 May, 2015
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Pray Through Pentecost – 05/23/2015
Fear. Fear drives us to do some crazy things. Fear is a powerful thing. It can keep us from making the right decision. It can keep us trapped in a way of life that is keeping us from seeing all that God designed us for
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Pray Through Pentecost – 05/22/2015
As I’ve been thinking through what to share with you during this season of waiting we are in, I have realized there is a great deal we can do when we feel like we can’t do anything. So often while we’re wait
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Pray Through Pentecost – 05/21/2015
When we find ourselves in a season of waiting, there are some things that happen. One of those being, doubt. It can be hard to keep the faith when you’re waiting for something to happen. I have been there several
Read more20 May, 2015
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Pray Through Pentecost – 05/20/2015 – Living in the Meantime
When your in-between life events or life stages it can be a challenge to know how to go about each day. We struggle with this as kids. There’s a name for it now, “tween.” As in when you’re not a
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Pray Through Pentecost – 05/19/2015
After the two men dressed in white told the disciples to stop standing around, looking into the clouds, the disciples went back to Jerusalem. They went to the upper room and “they all joined together constantly i
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Pray Through Pentecost – 5/18/2015
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens Eruption. It’s because of this eruption that I am fascinated with volcanoes and earthquakes. And I think the reason is that we lived about 20-25 miles away from it whe
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Pray Through Pentecost – 5/15/2015
Yesterday (Ascension day) was the last day in the book for this time of prayer we have been going through as a church. However, pentecost isn’t until May 24, so we still have a little over a week of time together
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Pray Through Pentecost – 2015
We are in a season of prayer at SixEight Church. We do this every year between Easter and Pentecost Sunday. It’s a good time to pray, because we’ve just gone through the busiest 5-6 month period for the chu
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05 June, 2014
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Pray Through Pentecost – Nearing the End
We are nearing the end of our focused, season of prayer as a church. Of course, that doesn’t mean that we can or should stop praying. In fact, I hope it means that we’ve developed more of a lifestyle of prayer and
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03 June, 2014
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SixEight Food Pantry Makes The Front Page of the Columbian
As you know, last year during our season of prayer we call “Pray Through Pentecost” was when God brought us a food pantry. Since that time, the pantry has grown, pretty much every week since then. Now the pantry i
Read more29 May, 2014
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 19 #PTP #Alittlemoretoday #hearingawhispher
We really are different. If you were here on Sunday, we talked about this idea: “Real joy doesn’t come from making more of the world about you, but by making more of you about the world.” This is a really
Read more27 May, 2014
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 17 #PTP #Alittlemoretoday
Last week, as the staff went out to lunch after our Monday morning staff meeting, we ran into one of my old professors from Multnomah. He retired not long after I graduated, so he was enjoying his second meal of the day in th
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 12 #PTP #Alittlemoretoday
Do you remember that series we did last fall? Sun Stand Still? During that series, we talked about the idea of praying Sun Stand Still prayers like Joshua prayed. Do you remember? If not, let me remind you: On the day the L
Read more21 May, 2014
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 11 – #PTP #Alittlemore today
Perhaps I have done a disservice to SixEight Church. Hopefully we have time to fix it. As you may know, I have a deep longing and desire to see God move in a powerful way in the hearts of our church and through the lives of o
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 10 – #PTP #Alittlemoretoday
We want God to move in our midst. I would even go so far as to say that we are desperate to be a part of a move of God. We don’t want to just do church like every other church does church. We want to be a part of someth
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 3 – #PTP #alittlemoretoday
Yesterday, we talked about how our vision as a church is to be a church of disciples making disciple-makers. And that a part of being a disciple is making more disciples. It’s actually woven into the DNA of a disciple.
Read more14 May, 2014
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 2 – #PTP #alittlemoretoday
Day 2: “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
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Pray Through Pentecost – Round 2
On Sunday, we just started a season of prayer as a church. It’s something we call Pray Through Pentecost. This year, Pentecost is on Sunday, June 8th, so we’re going to spend the next few weeks praying together as
Read more18 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 35
We are supposed to do good works No, we can’t earn our salvation, but we are supposed to do good works. And there is a point of doing good works. And it comes from Jesus’ himself: “Let your light so shine be
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 34
Beginning Is Easy How many times have you started a project, but quickly realized it was going to take you a lot longer than you were anticipating? All of a sudden, all this energy and excitement for the project vanishes and
Read more16 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 33
Around Every Corner… There is an opportunity to fall into temptation. You don’t have to go far to find it. In fact, you may be sitting at your temptation right now. While, I don’t want to get into a comparis
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 32
God calls us to believe beyond… God doesn’t ask us to do what only He can do. But He does ask us to believe beyond what we are capable of doing and seeing. And sometimes, we need God to help us with our unbelief a
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 31
It is not a question… …of whether or not we will have trials and troubles. It is a question of how we will respond to them. Trials and troubles and tribulation and a guaranteed part of living in a fallen world. Bu
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 29
Have you ever gone for a run… …only to be sorely disappointed with just how out of shape you are. You get about 30 seconds into your run, and you’re sucking wind like Dog who has just chased a car down the r
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 28
It’s easy to lose hope… While there are probably countless benefits to living in the connected society that we find ourselves, it is also not without it’s downsides. One of the biggest being, we also have ac
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 27
Yes, Jesus Loves Me For many of us, that was one of the first church songs we ever learned. I don’t know if it’s because we learned it at a young age, or that it’s never really communicated to us – but
Read more09 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 26
If you think wisdom is an Old Testament thing… …you couldn’t be more wrong. The word wisdom appears at least 50 times in the New Testament. Understanding – 18 times. Knowledge – 44 times. Righteo
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 25
(In case you’re just joining us for this journey of Pray Through Pentecost, I wanted to remind you that what we’re doing every day here on the blog is going through some of the prayers the early church prayed and
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 24
In Every Decision It’s easy to think that our need for discernment only refers to the spiritual decisions we make in our lives. But, what we don’t realize is that every decision affects our spiritual being. That&#
Read more06 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 23
We Have No Concept We don’t really understand what it was like back in the days of the early church – on many different levels. For one, it’s hard for us to even imagine what it was like 20 years ago before
Read more05 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 22
The Source There are so many different churches and denominations and variations of the denominations that it’s pretty much impossible to keep track of them all. And the fact, however sad it may be, is that unity is not
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 21
All About We We live in a competitive society. We all want to win. Well, most of us. It’s not a bad thing to be driven. In fact, I would say that – when it comes to the real mission God has for our lives – w
Read more03 May, 2013
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 20
It’s not that there isn’t a harvest… It’s easy for us to think that the reason we don’t see a lot of people coming to Christ is because they just aren’t there to harvest. I know a lot of pe
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 19
The Need for Leaders One thing that arises when the church starts to grow is the need for leaders. Leadership is a very necessary part of God’s design and structure for the church. As we see throughout scripture, God ha
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 18
Do you need wisdom? Have you found yourself in a situation in life where you just need wisdom? Where you don’t know what to do, you don’t know which way to turn? Has your boss asked you to do something that might
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 17
A different way to live Have you ever stopped to think about where the money the disciples used to buy things came from? I guess the reason we don’t really know where they got their money was because it wasn’t all
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 16
I’ve got to be honest with you… I have a hard time with this one. I want to hide in my theological corner and cling to the descriptive not prescriptive philosophy of the book of Acts. “This was just what hap
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 15
Have I Mentioned… …that you really should read the book of Acts. These things really happened, yo! If you’ve wondered about what a real move of God looks like, you should devour this book. They called on God
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 14
This is and interesting one. Unfortunately, it has been abused a lot of times. And because of that abuse, there has been a reaction that has caused it to be avoided entirely. We’ll get into some of that in a bit, but fo
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 13
If you haven’t read through the book of Acts you should, because there’s some crazy stuff that happened during the early days of the church. Especially the story that happened just before the passage we are going
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 12
We are all in this together. Not just life. We are all in this mission together. That’s why we talked about being a battleship instead of a cruise ship. Not that we view ourselves as being at war with the world, we are
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 11
Have you ever been praying and then had something happen that seemed to be a result of your prayer? Have you ever been praying and then the door of your room shut unexpectedly? Or the lights flickered? It makes you think that
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 10
Yesterday, we talked about praying for God to give us the right word of truth to speak. Today, we talk about praying for boldness in making that proclamation. They called on God for boldness in proclamation. And pray in the S
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 9
I’ve heard it said that the word of God, which is represented by the sword in Eph. 6 is the only offensive weapon spoken of in the famous spiritual armor passage. I imagine you could use a shield to defend yourself as w
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 8
If you’re starting to sense a theme in the prayers of the New Testament church, you’re sensing correctly. The more you read the New Testament, the more you’ll realize the whole motivation in Pauls’ lif
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 7
Persistence. This verse comes right after Jesus had told the disciples a parable about the “persistent widow.” In this parable, the widow is persistent in asking the unrighteous judge to give her justice against h
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 6
For some reason, so many facets of Christianity are afraid of the Holy Spirit. I don’t really understand it. I do in part, but not completely. There have been a lot of abuses of the Holy Spirit that has caused many to b
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 5
Today as we continue on in our Pray Through Pentecost series, we continue on in a similar theme as yesterday. While we talked about God’s Kingdom yesterday, we focused on the difference between the Kingdom of God and th
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 4
Today’s prayer focus is one that we should most certainly resonate with. This is a huge part of our lives as followers of Christ. And as you may have figured out by now, this is a big deal to me. As we join with the ear
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 3
As we go through this time of prayer, I also wanted to draw our attention to the various things the New Testament church prayed for. One of the things they prayed for (and there will be several pulled from this) was from the
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Pray Through Pentecost – Day 2
Today is the second day of our Pray Through Pentecost. If you want to know more about what we’re doing, you can view all the posts in this series by clicking here, or you can listen to yesterday’s talk. For today,
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Pray Through Pentecost
We are about to embark on a journey as a church. It’s not a new journey for churches to go on. In fact, this is a journey that started the first church. After Jesus had come back to life, he spent 40 days with the disci
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