Category: Just Life
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#MCM: Check your face
I have a little routine I try to follow before I leave my house: Check my hair. Check my teeth. Check my fly. Keys. Wallet. All systems are go. But over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been made increasingly more aware of the need to check my face. I shared this thought with our…
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Coffee Together: My Son
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Coffee Together conversation, for a day of celebrating my son! Today, he turns 7 years old and I want to brag on him a little. I love being a dad of daughters. I love when they come up to me, hug me, and tell me how much they love me.…
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Don’t Ass.u.me.
So I received an email over the weekend from someone I’ve never met before who apparently stumbled upon our RiverChurch website and ….well…..here are a few things they said: So it looks like you are living a lesbian/homosexual lifestyle? Am I correct in this assumption? And never did I see on your website about healing!! …
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#MCM: Put It Down
“Who are you texting now?” She asked the question, with a tone of frustration and an expression of exasperation. “She” is my wife, and the question, well its a question I get asked at least three times a week, if not more. “I’m sorry, baby girl, repeat to me the last thing you just said.”…
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Coffee Together: Tears
Here’s another great story, Sarah shared with me a few weeks ago while volunteering at Cadence, I love how our little coffee shop has been the setting for those “right place at the right time” moments. On Wednesday, a lady came in to buy a cup of coffee and find a safe place to…
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#MCM: Love Big, Stay Small
First – I am no expert at being a great husband, a great dad, or even just a great man for that matter. Secondly – I also know that “#mcm” has a different meaning than what I imply in this and future posts. However, as a man I believe I, and other men, need…
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Coffee Together: Fun
My wife and I sat one evening listening to a married couple talk about some of the lessons they had learned over the 24 years of their marriage. I took copious notes, and a lot of what they said challenged me in such profound ways. But it was the first “lesson” they shared that has…
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Coffee Together: Serve
Mother Theresa was asked one time “How did God call you to serve the poor?” Her answer . . . “I was not called to serve the poor, rather I was called to serve Jesus and He led me here.” If anyone knows me, they know I’m a big dreamer. Sometimes I can get carried…
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Coffee Together: Shoe String
Some of my most favorite people in the world are the volunteers at Cadence who support our paid staff by helping with some of the day to day tasks, but more importantly building relationships with our customers. Sarah is one of our Wednesday volunteers, she and her husband Ray are great at connecting with customers…
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Coffee Together: Breathe
Life can be so stressful. I don’t know if you handle stress the same way that I do, but I often find that I internalize stress quite a bit. Now sometimes, I’ll reach a point that I just can’t hold it in anymore and well . . . lets’ just leave that there. I was…