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07
NOV
2024

Consumer or Apprentice

Consumer or Apprentice Shortly after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the communist hold on Eastern Europe, a friend, Dean Truog, had the opportunity to meet with a pastor from one of those countries. The man had been imprisoned because of his faith. His...
09
JAN
2024

Margins

The importance of margins Several years ago, our pastor preached a sermon on the importance of margins. He had some helpful ideas, but the most memorable part of the sermon was that he stood right on the edge of the stage with no margin. Making it obvious that standing there...
09
DEC
2023

The Life-changing Impact of a Small Group

The first century was an amazing time for the expanding church as people who loved Jesus spread the message all over the known world.  There were several factors that made this possible. The first factor was a geographical one—the expansion of the Roman Empire made travel...
17
NOV
2021

Conflict and Civility

For the past several weeks we have been part of a group that has been discussing the hurt in our world from the painful ways the American society is engaging in conflict over political, economic, and even theological issues.   As God’s people, we are called to respond to conflict...
27
JUN
2021

A Christian Nation – Really?

Our faith history took a dramatic pivot when God came to earth in the person of Jesus.  For centuries God expressed himself to the world in many ways, but in specific ways through the nation of Israel.  But in Jesus God ushered in the new way he would work in the world:  it is...
29
FEB
2020

Living the Main Thing

I have often heard people say that we need to keep the “main thing” the main thing.  And of course for most of us, we would immediately know this refers to holding on to Jesus and his life in us and through us. In Andy Stanley’s book, Irresistible, he gives insight into one of...

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About Kent Hotaling

Kent HotalingFor over 50 years I have been a follower of Jesus – some of the time in ways that pleased him and other times so poorly it neither pleased him, me, or others. However, I have stayed on the journey because…

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