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Servolution…

I love the heart of pastor Dino Rizzo, and his passion for the local church. I have known Dino for a lot of years now, and he has never changed. He’s a living example of a servant who lives to make other people’s lives better.
We were invited by Dino to participate in this blog [...]

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Servolution!

On Saturday April 4, we had our big day for Servolution, over a thousand volunteers spread out through Lima, and the shanty towns, to do casual acts of kindness with no other motive than to bless people. The results were amazing! Much better than I thought they would be. I could almost see how Jesus [...]

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The Global Church

The globally connected church has been on my mind for the past few days. Recently we joined together with Life Church in teaching a series called One Prayer. We were actually just one of hundreds of churches that took part in this project. Now, we are coming alongside Healing Place Church in Servolution – a [...]

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More Done Than Said…

It is pretty cool to think our church will celebrate our 20th anniversary this coming week. Who would have imagined all that the Lord has done over the years for us. I often tell ministers, anyone can be a hero if you stick around long enough. Over the years, I [...]

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Who sinned?

I was thinking about the verse where the disciples asked Jesus, “Who sinned.” It was concerning a man born blind. The idea that if someone is sick, it must be punishment from God in someway. This is such a wrong concept of God. God is good, the devil is bad! Why is it people look [...]

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What does separate us from God?

At the Hillsong conference this past July, they had this statement on their screen for the opening night, “the things that separate man from God, are the same things that separate man from man” Things like envy, jealously, hate, greed. Is it no wonder the world is so divided, its sin that separates nations, ethnic [...]

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Over the Storm

Of all things that unites the church, one of the most effective seems to be crisis, crisis and persecution. As my family is in a health crisis, Karyn has been found to have cancer in her body. We have been amazed, and brought to tears over and over again, how the church family comes together [...]

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The United Church

Every Sunday I say the same thing: I love church. With all that it is; fun, full of life, you know… it’s God’s church. When we love what God loves: his people joined together, one accord, singing, growing together… it’s wonderful. Church is a community with out boundaries, without frontiers… there no such thing as [...]

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Such a time as this

When Daniel saw in prophecy that God was about to move, to set free a nation of captives, he prayed. (Dan. ch 9, and Jer 25.) Why pray, if God said He is going to do it? Because Daniel realized two things, its not automatic, and Gods people were not ready.
Sometimes we feel that all [...]

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History Makers

OK, I’m back, at least I will do my best to keep up with this again…
People said they could not do it, they even felt they could not do it, but they did. The Wright brothers, who’s day job was making bicycles, made, and flew in the first ever airplane. Imagine how they changed history, [...]

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Southern Coast

It’s hard to express what the last few days have been like since the earthquake. By God’s grace we’ve been able to be on site providing immediate help. We haven’t been able to sleep much though knowing they’ve lost everything. It’s good to know though that we can help them start over again. How great [...]

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Joy through hard times

Count it all Joy when we go through trials. How many times have we looked at that verse, and said, sure, right. Can we really get happy, even in the middle of something not pleasant?
Once again, how Karyn has been teaching me lessons on life. The other day, she had to go in to cut [...]