COTTON CANDY Gods

My kids love cotton candy. I think everyone loves cotton candy. Did you know there is only one ingredient in cotton candy? Sugar. Cotton candy, it turns out, is just spun sugar. Aerated sugar. Delicious wispy sugar. Yummy, old Texas lady bouffant hair looking sugar. Cotton candy has only one ingredient, and that one ingredient…

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ROBOT Gods

As a pastor, one of the questions I hear a lot is, “Why did God create us with the ability to rebel against him?” People want to know why we even have the option of sinning. I tell them that God’s reason for creating us is relationship; it’s love. And to be able to truly…

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ME Gods

This weekend at Verve we talked about “idolatry” – our tendency to worship things other than God, thinking that they’ll give us what only God can truly give us. I thought I’d take a couple posts this week to talk about the kinds of false gods we tend to worship. The first are what I’d…

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A Second Chance at a New Start

We’re about 40 days into 2012. Did you make any new year’s resolutions this year? Maybe to lose weight? Or watch less TV? Or stop that habit? Or start exercising?  —  So, how you doing with that? One resolution I hope you made was to read the Bible. Not because we want to be “good…

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Be You-Nique (2)

Damien Hirst is one of the most prolific artists in the world, probably the richest artist in the world, and perhaps one of the most scorned artists in the world. He’s put down for lots of reasons – many critics blame him for the decline of contemporary art (Hirst’s art includes dead animals, and lots…

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