Well, we had another weekend at The Gathering. The weather was incredible and people again came in a great mood. The worship time led by Ken and Barbie Isham, and others, was stellar. I love “Open the Eyes of My Heart”, “Great in Power,” and one of my favorites that Barbie wrote – “Relentless.” It [...]

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This is from a lecture by Bob Russell called “The Top Ten Reasons Ministry is More Difficult Than Business.”
1. It is more difficult because it is so cumbersome. In church leadership, lines of authority are often blurred. There is a tug-of-war for power that I have discovered over the years has to do with one of [...]

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Well, this is the Sunday after Easter and we usually expect the attendance to be low, but in spite of the cold temperatures and the pouring rain, The Gathering’s attendance was amazing today.
I’m also amazed at how responsive both services are. Traditionally the 8:30 service is a little more subdued because they are not awake [...]

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Today at The Gathering far exceeded my expectations. Almost every seat was taken in the early service, and every seat was taken with people standing in the aisles in the second service. Plus, when I came in, all the hallways were full of people talking and serving, loving kids and doing great things. Just the [...]

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This coming weekend will be the highest attended weekend of the year. Why is Easter the event that rocked the world? It’s from this historical fact (that Jesus Christ was crucified and got up from the dead) that we’ve gained much of our understanding of what God is like.
Easter reminds us that God’s intentionality for [...]

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This weekend at The Gathering was the sixth installment of our series “Loving God.” I related my visit this week to a state penitentiary. And what I took away was, from death row to maximum security, to all the different sections of the prison, there seemed to be a normalcy, an acceptance of the [...]

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