Don’t make the mistake of treating this year like every other. So often we go into a new year and get excited about a chance to start over, but we only set ourselves up for dissapointment. We pull together our goals and resolutions for the year and maybe one or two will get accomplished but [...]
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The recent series we’ve just finished here at Hope Summit has been great! I’m so thankful for our dedicated volunteers that have sacrificed extra time in preparation and serving. Each week the team prepared a different Beatles song and I tied the lyric into our life and the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Often our culture is willing [...]
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December 15th is National Cat Herders Day! The goofy holiday was created by a couple in California that has thought of a few funny holidays. This time of year I think many of us feel like we’re trying to accomplish the impossible, like herding cats. Family visits, parties with friends, children’s Christmas activities, and not [...]
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A few weeks ago we started a new series of teachings at Hope Summit called I Am Second. A while back, Norm Miller started a website where people share their story and quite a few people have shared their experience with God. College and pro football players, musicians, actors, actresses, ministers – many people from [...]
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As a leader I think tension can be a very healthy thing, especially when you keep it in the right places. Here is what I mean. I believe we should always maintain a healthy tension between providing guidance and maintaining control over the people we lead. Leaders I meet tend to gravitate toward one or [...]
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Have you personally experienced those moments where you wonder, “Where is God?” I think we’ve all been there at some point and for me it was the church and the relationships in a community of faith that kept me going. We often hear that its not the building that makes us a church its the [...]
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I’m so proud of my friend Brian. I had the privelege of serving with him and the team at Christ’s Church of the Valley for almost ten years. He recently was interviewed about his latest book Hell is Real But I Hate to Admit It. The book is filled with tough questions and Brian talks [...]
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My friend Kevin Stone is the Executive Pastor at Christ’s Church of the Valley and I had the pleasure of working with him and learning from him while I served there in numerous roles. On his website, Executive Pastor Online he has some great stuff about his experience at CCV. Here are his thoughts on [...]
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This summer is my first full summer at Hope Summit and it has been great! Our staff really pulled together as a team and our new Director of Summit Kids (Mandy Slater) kicked off our first Kids’ Camp! The theme this year was Splashdown which was a really fun water theme for the games while [...]
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