Mark Affleck

church growth

A “Dumb” Phone?

Our phones are definitely getting smarter, but our knowledge of God’s Word has become more like a “Dumb Phone.”    We have become biblically illiterate Christians because many of us have marginalized Scripture in favor of singing contemporary songs, attending fellowship barbeques, and taking superficial topical study classes.    We are experiencing a famine—a famine […]

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I'm Alone.

God wants us to wait for his refining work and look for his perspective even while we are in the vortex of affliction. He wants us to trust the divine timing and not get discouraged while we’re in the waiting period. The best approach to stop discouragement early is to pray. But as clear and

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WHAT, ME WORRY?

God’s Word is full of seemingly unending promises on the subject of worry, fear, and discouragement.    It seems hard to believe that Christians could take these words to heart and still adopt the worry mode when encountering periods of distress. But that is the norm, not the exception.    We allow our anxieties to

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I CAN'T SEE!

Let me dive a little deeper by switching metaphors…    We put ourselves at risk when we travel through life without paying attention to those important warning lights flashing their plea for attention on the dashboard. Our car may keep running, but eventually it will break down, and we will not know when it will

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