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maxie-isms

Maxie spoke last night at Crash, continuing our Fall MEGAseries “Mind the Gap”. We were in Week 3 of our mini-series, “The Character Gap: The Gap Within Us”. We have been looking at Old Testament characters who give us insight into the places within us where we can learn how God transforms our [...]

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I reconnected with some friends this week who I haven’t seen since the spring. we are partnering on some upcoming projects. They asked – “so, now that you have graduated from seminary, what are you up to?”
I decided to share this in a top 10 format.
1. I am loving my new [...]

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did you know 4.0

incredible date in this video. the question is not “did you know?” because we probably didn’t. The question is “what are you going to do as a result of it?”
This is a selfish post. I work for an organization that is struggling to come to terms with this reality. [...]

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taming the Blue Parakeets

I just finished a great book. “The Blue Parakeet” by Scot McKnight. Released last year, this book talks about how we tame the life out of the challenging sections of the Bible and fail to acknowledge that we all adapt and apply what we read in the Scriptures. I mean, when was [...]

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maxie-isms

Maxie Burch continued Crash’s first series of fall 2009 entitled “The Character Gap” on Sunday, September 20. Maxie focused on the story of Daniel in the book of Daniel, chapters 1-6 to help us wade into the idea that God is concerned and focused on shaping and transforming our character, effectively narrowing “the gap [...]

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It Snuck Up on Me

I didn’t grow up thinking I was creative. I failed cutting in kindergarten and I got graded down in second grade because I sucked at coloring. Couldn’t fill in the space, couldn’t stay in the lines, didn’t read correctly and colored the wrong area with the wrong color. I never thought in [...]

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scottisms

Last night was an incredible night at Crash. We started our fall series “Mind the Gap”.
Our first conversation as a part of that series is entitled “The Character Gap: The Gap within us”.
We showed a great teaching video on “Jesus and the Kingdom”, which you can view by clicking here.
We also played [...]

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I sat with a friend recently. He has stepped into a new leadership position. I didn’t expect this kind of move for him. From afar, I was a bit perplexed and this was our first chance to talk about it.
We rode the light rail together recently back from a meet up where he [...]

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I had coffee with a friend today. He referenced a mutual friend following the path of least resistance.
Without going into details, I get it – the situation there has factors that cannot be avoided, things are outside of human control. It sucks. And so there are only so many paths [...]

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scott-isms

We wrapped up our two-part series on Sabbath on Sunday night. I talked about what Jesus said about Sabbath, how we can begin keeping the Sabbath, and how Sabbath connects to Communion. You can always check out the podcast on the Crash web site or in the iTunes store. New talks are [...]

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