Category: Publications
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It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind
Hurt is hard. I realized in the last month that it has been more than a year since I have done any serious writing. I had given up on ministry and started my own business because, frankly, I was done being hurt. At the beginning of 2023, a friend of mine (a couple, actually) told…
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Introducing The 1 Samuel Expository Commentary From CM
The work we do is for the church. We spent two years working on our first expository commentary–the expository commentary on 1 Samuel. We spend much time and money resourcing the church through the blog at Christoa.com, and this is our first major print endeavor. We hope to provide commentaries to pastors around the world…
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3 Necessary Tests For Your Faith
Do you have eternal life? [qsm quiz=1] Is your local church a true local church? [qsm quiz=2] Are you a false teacher? [qsm quiz=3] Download or purchase the book to see these questions explained expositorily. Use this book as an outreach tool for your church.
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No, Jesus Didn’t Teach That!
Come to Me I went through several versions and titles before deciding how to present this book to you. I am constantly reminded and troubled by the tendencies of so many authors and speakers in our day, who put words in Jesus’ mouth. Such is the case with daily devotionals like Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling…
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It’s Not My Ministry- New Church Leadership Devotional
When I began preaching regularly at the age of 18 and then received my first ministry position at the age of 19, I was ill-prepared for the daunting task. I was trying to run without legs. No one had, at that time, taken the time to teach me what it meant to serve in…
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Don’t Cuss. Don’t Drink. Don’t have sex. But please, steal this book.
“Don’t cuss. Don’t drink. Don’t have sex before marriage.” That is the message we were pounded with on a weekly basis. “We will give you cool stuff if you come.” That is what we were won with and to. We poured down the isles at summer camp, responding to some version of the Gospel, though…
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Dear Teenager,
When I was a preteen and a teenager growing up in church, I remember feeling as though there was no place for me. We had youth group, and our youth group averaged more than one-hundred students on Wednesday evening. We went to camps, went on retreats, did missions projects, had cool t-shirts, had awesome music,…
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I Am a Reject, will you join me?
I have experienced more rejection on this earth in ministry than doing anything else. Rejection, it seems, simply comes with being a pastor and trying to not only preach God’s word well, but to live and to operate by it. We fear rejection. We want people to like us. This is what causes so many…
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Buy a Book, Provide a Meal
Is this the right place? My generation left the church and migrated to places like these because they offered something that the organized church did not- acceptance. That is, perhaps, the greatest travesty of our time. A whole generation responded to the negativity, the shallow semblance of true faith, and the condemnation of a people…
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Church(ish)- New Book Now Available!
The story is too familiar. You visit a church and everyone is nice, but no one seems to truly care. The people wear masks of righteousness only to, after you have committed yourself, remove those masks to reveal the face of a horrid witch-like creature. Or, perhaps, a different mask is worn: a mask…