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Pastors: Is Your Soul Ready for Easter?
If your life is like mine, the Easter season is very busy. Our days are consumed by an all-hands-on-deck time of planning special worship services and additional outreach efforts. You stack this on top...
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BIG NEWS FOR THE LAWRENCE FAMILY
For the past 20 years, I’ve sought to help people discover what it means to live for Jesus. The mission of Jesus has allowed me the privilege of connecting with many great people in many great places,...
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A DREAM OF A TEAM
As I am planting a new church, I pray a lot for our future staff. I pray for humble, high-capacity leaders. I pray for the Spirit-led culture that we want to create. I pray for God’s protection and...
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EXCITED TO PLANT A CHURCH HERE
As I talk to people around the United States about the new church we are launching for the Oklahoma City area, it has been fun to tell them about the exciting changes that have taken place in OKC in...
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WHY PLANT A NEW CHURCH?
I wanted to post some important ideas related to the new church that we are launching in Edmond / OKC, Oklahoma. God is doing some incredibly exciting things with Redemption Church, and I can’t wait to...
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WHY PLANT A NEW CHURCH IN OKC?
I heard it again. This time from a pastor who recently commented (not to me) that we don’t need any more church plants in Oklahoma City because we have lots of great churches here. This wasn’t the...
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WHY PLANT A NEW CHURCH IN THE BIBLE BELT?
NOTE: This is a modified, expanded post taken from an earlier piece that focused on my city. When the response to the first piece was so positive, I realized I had made a mistake in not broadening the...
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5 KEYS TO A LIFE THAT PERSEVERES
“This is harder than I thought it would be.” We’ve all thought it at one time or another. Difficult tasks that require long seasons of effort can be exhausting. If we lose sight of the goal, we can...
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CHURCH PLANTER, ACT YOUR AGE
I recently posted at For the Church, a new site that exists to engage, encourage, and equip the Church with gospel-centered resources that are pastoral, practical, and devotional. I am a regular...
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YOU HAVE NOT BEEN OVERLOOKED
I recently posted at the For the Church site. I’m including the beginning of the post below with a link to the full article. . . . . . I was struck the other day by...
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