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The struggle between the natural and supernatural runs deep. Things that come naturally are comfortable because they have something to do with what pleases me. On the flip side, the supernatural can be easily missed. I remember when I missed it big time. I was 21 years old and on temporary Navy duty in San [...]

Read Daniel 1:1-16 Have you ever had something so capture your attention that it was hard to turn away? My wife and daughter were recently captivated by a Vita-Mix presentation and enjoyed several of the resulting concoctions from smoothies to sorbets. They had a hard time walking away without buying one. The Wii captivates my [...]

A friend of mine moved into a new house awhile back. He was amazed at the number of trees that had been planted. The sunlight was almost completely hidden from view. These were not little spindly trees. These trees had take their roots deep and now extended their reach more than thirty feet into the [...]

Randy Frazee, Senior Minister at Oak Hills Church, recently shared an encouraging message on the presence of God being released among us. When the curtain was torn from top to bottom, God powerfully demonstrated that the sacrifice of Jesus erased the separation between God and Man. One of the illustrations Randy used to bring this [...]

It was a packed weekend celebrating Easter at Oak Hills with 6 worship services. 6 identical services with one powerful message:  Jesus lives among us and desires to live in us – we are no longer separated from him.  The curtain was torn that separated us from a personal relationship with Jesus. We now have [...]

I recently found this video through a tweet by Derek Sivers (@sivers). Derek blogs and is the founder of MuckWork which was created to help musicians make a living with their music. He recently presented this three minute video at the TED Conference and through it he shares some powerful leadership lessons. What I found most [...]