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The Honest Answer About Busy I want to start with a quick show of hands. How many of you have said the words “I’m so busy” sometime in the last week? That’s pretty much the whole room. Here’s a follow-up, and this one’s a little more honest. How many of you said it as a complaint? And how many of you said it a little bit proud? Because if we’re honest, it’s usually both. Busy is exhausting. We’re tired. But busy also makes us feel important. When somebody asks, “How are you d

We’ve been talking about who we are here at Colfax Christian Church, and this week we’re looking at one of our core values. We call it Developing Family. We believe the church is at its strongest when every generation is in the room together. When a seven-year-old is sitting a few rows up from a seventy-year-old, and they’re both singing to the same God. Faith isn’t just passed down through programs and classes. Programs are good. Classes are good. But faith is caught. It’s c

The Minister Who Wouldn’t Let Me Pay For five years I served at a small church in rural Kentucky. The senior pastor there was the father of one of the guys I went to Bible college with. When I first got there, I was pretty worried about how it was going to go. I didn’t know if he was going to see me as a peer, or if he was going to see me as a kid. One of his son’s buddies from school. When I first met Chip, he was a little intimidating. He is 6'4" and he grew up on a ranch i

The Emperor's Memo I want to take you back to the summer of 362. The most powerful man in the world sits down and writes a memo. And it's about church people. His name is Emperor Julian. Julian was the nephew of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to become a Christian. Julian was raised in a Christian home. But somewhere along the way, he turned from the faith. When he became emperor, he set out to bring back the old gods. He reopened the pagan temples. He put the priests b

Flips vs. Rebuilds Abby and I love looking at houses for sale. It's a fun hobby for us. But here's the thing. We look for completely different stuff. I look at the land. I want to know what's around it, how much of it there is. And I like unique houses. Give me something with character. Abby looks at two things, and only two things. How old is the AC and heating unit? And, does this house look like a flip? Let me explain why that second question matters. A flip covers up prob

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The Loon on the Lake Every year growing up, my family got away to Minnesota. It is my favorite place on earth. We would go up to a little town called Grand Marais, right up on Lake Superior. And one of my favorite things about being up there is a bird called the loon. If you have never seen one, they are these beautiful birds that make a sound unlike anything else. When you hear it drift across the water early in the morning while you are out fishing, it gives you goosebumps.

How Would You Start the Story? If you were going to write the story of the most important person who ever lived, how would you start it? You probably would not start it the way Matthew did. He could have started with the miracles. He could have started with the teaching. He could have started with the manger. Instead, Matthew opened the story of Jesus with a list of names. Seventeen verses of who was whose father, going back two thousand years. Most of us, if we're honest, sk

The Silence I want to begin this morning with something about Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, that most people never notice until it's pointed out to them. In all of Scripture, across every scene he appears in, Joseph never speaks a single word. Not one. The angel speaks to him. Mary speaks. The shepherds speak. The boy Jesus speaks. But Joseph, the man God chose to raise His own Son, never says a recorded word in the entire Bible. And yet we know exactly who he was. How

We Ain't Rich. I'm Rich. Shaquille O'Neal grew up poor in Newark. He clawed his way out through hard work and discipline, becoming one of the most dominant big men who ever played the game and a businessman worth half a billion dollars. He broke a cycle. Now he's raising kids inside that empire. And he's noticed something that worries him. So he tells them, in his own words, "We ain't rich. I'm rich." He says if they want access to his money, they have to bring him two colleg

The King Who Stopped Tending the Field

**Recommended Title:** What the Church Has Buried (and How to Find It Again) *Alternatives:* - When the Bible Gets Lost Inside the Church - Love God. Love Your Neighbor. Nothing Else Matters. --- **Meta Description:** The church keeps burying what matters most. Josiah found the Book of the Law lost inside God's own temple. Here's what that means for us today. *(143 characters)* --- ## Full Article There's a moment in the Old Testament so stunning it barely gets the atte