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My Advent: Weekly Video Devo

This past week at Element Church we started a new sermon series called “My Advent: What does it mean for me?” In this series we are going back to our Christian roots, lighting a candle in the Advent wreath each week, and talking about what Advent truly means for me. But we don’t want to leave the se…

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Element Church: Volunteer Of The Week

Hey Element Church ! Meet Shauna, this week’s Volunteer Of The Week. Shauna was nominated by our Outreach Ministries assistant, Eiron who said this: “Shauna has been serving in the church for 2 years. First in tech and now in a small women’s group that serves struggling and homeless children in Chey…

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How Do I Know When To Start Something New – Part 2

Have you ever been unsure of when to start something new? Well, in episodes 1 and 2 of the Infuse Leadership Podcast we talk about just that. In part 1 of this 2 part podcast, we started talking through six things you need to know before you start something new. By the time we were done with part 1…

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Are Gay People Welcome In Our Church?

On Sunday at Element Church , we had our annual “You Choose Sunday.” On these days we let the people pick the worship songs and also select the sermon content by submitting questions that I do my best to answer. We’re gonna have to start doing two weeks of You Choose Sunday because there were way mo…

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What if THEY are elected?

Today is the day. Whether you’ve already voted or not, and if you are eligible to vote I would encourage you to do that prayerfully and informed, by the time we wake up tomorrow morning we will have a new elected president of the United States of America. I gotta be honest, this election season has…

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What Do I Do About Nerves When I Preach?

If I’m not nervous before I preach God’s Word then I have a real reason to be nervous. [Tweet “If I’m not nervous before I preach God’s Word then I have a real reason to be nervous.”] Just recently I had the great privilege of preaching to a group of ministry students at Nebraska Christian College.…

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“So That…” Year End Offering

Hey Element Church! I know it’s several weeks away but I wanted to start letting you know about our annual year end offering called the “So That” offering on Sunday, December 11th. You can watch the video below where I talk about it in our Sunday service, or you can continue reading. Either way, if…

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What should I pray for our president?

On Sunday at Element Church we finished our sermon series called “Decision 2016: Escaping the political paranoia”. Regardless of who is elected and regardless of what happens to the economy, what does God want us to decide to do? So far in the series we talked about changes that need to be made in G…

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How Do I Find Rest In God?

If you don’t want to live in God’s shelter you won’t find rest in His shadow. [Tweet “If you don’t want to live in God’s shelter you won’t find rest in His shadow.”] So many people want to find rest in God, the problem is we aren’t willing to live in God’s shelter. Psalm 91:1 says, Those who live in…

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Three Things To Remember About Cultivating A Healthy Culture

Culture is talked a lot about today in leadership, and well it should be. The potential of an organization is only as powerful as the culture in which it has created. Culture is like the foundation to a building. You might have the most impressive looking structure, but if the foundation is not soun…

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I’m Going Swimming With God

On Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “Decision 2016: Escaping the political paranoia.” In this series we’re talking about the fear and uncertainty that this election is causing in our country and what God says about the decisions we should make in the midst of that. No m…

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6 Political Points We Can All Agree On

There are lots of disagreements in this election even among people in the faith. We can agree that Jesus is the only way to Heaven but we can’t agree on who should be our next president. Not only is there lots of disagreement, but there is massive amounts of mud-slinging, not just from the candidate…