300 years ago, a visionary named Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf founded something called the Order of the Mustard Seed. It was an eclectic group that included the King of Denmark, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Scotland’s Secretary of State, and an 84-year-old chief of the Creek Nation called Tomo Chii. Each member wore a ring with an...
On April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King penned a letter from a Birmingham Jail. He was responding to critics who questioned his tactics, and this is what he said in that letter: there was a time when the church was very powerful, a time when early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days, the...
In 2012, a 14-year-old girl named Lola Anderson was watching the Olympic Games. Two rowers from the UK won a gold medal, and that’s when Lola pulled out her diary and wrote these words: «My name is Lola Anderson, and I think it would be my biggest dream in life to go to the Olympics in rowing and, if possible, win a gold medal for Great Britain.»...
You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in, and you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey, and you turn yourself around, and that’s what it’s all about. One of my favorite comics is a climber on a quest to discover the meaning of life. What is the purpose of life? What is the good life? He climbs to...
Tell me about the best day of your life—that’s the question I want to ask. It would be far more fun than the question I’m about to ask: tell me about the worst day of your life, the hardest day, the most difficult day of your life. Can you access it for a moment? How did you handle it? How did it change you—for better or for worse? How did you get...
This weekend, we kick off a new series called «The Good Life.» Well, what is it? Well, maybe we ought to start with what it’s not. Can we start there? The good life is not no problems; the only people with no problems are six feet under. The good life is not good money. No, no, no. In the words of the Notorious B.I.G., «More money, more problems.»...
The world has yet to see what God can do through one person wholly consecrated to Him. Why not you? Why not now? Welcome to National Community Church! What a joy to be here, in person or online, Nova DC! Here we go. One of my heroes is Stanley Tam. I had the joy of calling him on his 107th birthday. That’s a lot of candles, y’all! You’re going to...
Are you a thermometer or are you a thermostat? Are you being conformed to the world around you or are you being transformed by the Spirit of God within you? Is the loudest voice in your life the loudest voice, or is it the still small voice of the Spirit? What percentage of your words and thoughts, your actions and reactions, are a regurgitation...
So when the Lord saw, this is Exodus 3 and verse 4. So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called him from the midst of the bush and said, «Moses, Moses.» And he said, «Here I am.» And then he said, «Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.» Moreover, he said, «I am...
If you’ve got your Bibles, turn with me to Luke chapter 19, and we’ll look at verse 30. This is Jesus speaking. It says, «Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it? ' say, 'The Lord needs...
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