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Pastoral Bonds Pay Dividends In The Wake of Surfside Tragedy

Darren Bennett
6 Jul 2021
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(Scroll down to leave a comment) Just a little over three years ago I had the privilege of starting a relationship with a seasoned, kind, loving and selfless pastor. I can remember it like it was yesterday. I reached out to him via Facebook messenger, and he was quick to reply back with his cell phone number. We set up a lunch date at Grand Lux Café in Aventura Miami. After we sat and talked for four hours, what started next would be the beginning of a beautiful Spiritual father and son relationship. Over the course of the next few […]

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GOOD NEWS WANTS TO KNOW – God Story

The Good News
1 Jul 2021
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(Scroll down to comment with your God story.) God often reveals himself to us in ways we don’t expect. This month Good News Wants to Know…. What is a time when God touched your life in a personal way – big or small – that you would call a God Story? When a fire destroyed our church in North Lauderdale in Sept.1997, it was unexpected and life changing. As the associate pastor I didn’t not want to take over as lead pastor (a year and a half later) with any debt. God answered the prayer, one year later, just before I […]

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The Dream of God’s Heart

Jessica Busboom
20 Jun 2021
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Did you know that God has a dream in His heart for you? He has desires and wants for your family, our city and our nation. This is a beautiful part of who God is. He is a God who thinks, loves, grieves, rejoices…and dreams. When I began to see this part of God’s nature, something changed in the way I saw and related to Him on the heart level. Seeing this part of Him stirred up a desire in me to know His heart and not just His works. A few months ago I asked God this question: “Father, […]

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The Gospel – Reasonable and Desirable

Dr. Tommy Boland
9 Jun 2021
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The best way for Christians to get an audience in our cultural moment is by communicating how the good news of the Gospel is not only reasonable, but absolutely desirable. We must share Christ through reason and romance as we engage both the head and the heart with the Truth and Beauty of Jesus. For the next few months, I will share some beautiful biblical stories of how Jesus engaged both the heads and the hearts of those He encountered. The Bible is God’s story about His mission of mercy; Jesus declared that His mission was “to seek and to […]

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Spared from COVID? Offer Streams of Mercy

Dr. Debra A. Schwinn
8 Jun 2021
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Walking out of our lovely, in-person commencement ceremonies last month, I found myself humming a classic hymn of the faith, thanks to Stewart Foster, talented organist from the Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach. The soft strains of Stewart’s music filled the spaces between the names called out as graduates received their diplomas. One particular hymn kept replaying in my mind, until I concluded: We should set up an Ebenezer after ending a year under COVID-19. I bet many of you know exactly the hymn I mean, and in your mind you’re singing along with me, “Here I raise my […]

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Franklin Graham: God’s Word Is Always True

Franklin Graham
3 Jun 2021
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Two years ago, we held an evangelistic Crusade in the seaside town of Blackpool, England. Nine thousand people came to hear us proclaim the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hundreds made confessions of faith! This was in spite of intense opposition from the LGBTQ community, which objected to the advertising message on public transportation buses. The ads simply said “Time for Hope.” The gay activists were successful at the time in pressuring officials to remove our ads from the sides of the buses. However, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association coordinated with the Lancashire Festival trustees to take the matter […]

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Seek the Welfare of the City

Dr. Gene L. Green
27 May 2021
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“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers” (Galatians 6:10).   “Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good. For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good” (1 Peter 2:13-15).   Both Paul and Peter encouraged believers of their day to “do good” […]

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Education Is Mission

Rob Hoskins
11 May 2021
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As churches look to the changing landscape of the future, explosion of choice is clouding a clear sightline. With so many opportunities for ministry, how do you choose what will make a lasting impact? Psychologist Barry Schwartz describes the shackles freedom of choice binds us with in his book The Paradox of Choice. “… choice no longer liberates, but debilitates…But clinging tenaciously to all the choices available to us contributes to bad decisions, to anxiety, stress, and dissatisfaction…” Let me highlight what I believe is one of the most critical dimensions of mission activity in the world today. It’s the […]

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God’s Presence Quantized

The Good News
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Have you heard it said, “The worship leader ushers us into the presence of God?” Well if that’s true then the abundance or lack of God’s presence falls solely on the minister of music. Along with      other crafty human phrases that are also false, like the above one, we are met with two very mysterious questions: What does the presence of God look like? And what system should I learn  to encounter him every time, without fail? What do Moses, the High Priest, and Jesus have in common? All three, and of course many more    in the […]

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Americans Unite to Pray on May 6

The Good News
5 May 2021
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Americans from all walks of life will gather on May 6th to lift up our country in prayer on the National Day of Prayer. Our nation has endured a year marked by unprecedented challenges, but we know prayer has carried us through these days and the hand of God will move us into a brighter future. History of the Day to Pray This year marks 70 years since Reverend Billy Graham stood on the capitol steps in February 1952 and called for congress and the president to establish a day of prayer. By April of that year, President Truman signed […]

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