27 Sep

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  Have you ever been searching for your glasses and could not find them anywhere?  After an extensive search, out of desperation you finally ask your spouse, “Have you seen my glasses?!”  To which she glibly responds, “They’re on your head!”  All this time you were looking for something you couldn’t see but yet was in very close proximity! The Bible tells us, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely...

20 Sep

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  Last week I began sharing that when I think back on my early years of desiring to be in ministry, it looked like nothing would ever open up for me.  However, I knew God had called me to my local church for a long season, so I just decided to be faithful right where I was!  Finally a ministry job opened up for me there at my local church but it only paid $5/hour and I was 26 years old!  However, I gladly took it and faithfully served there at my local church for $5/hour for two years until I...

13 Sep

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  Have you ever been searching for your glasses and could not find them anywhere?  After an extensive search, out of desperation you finally ask your spouse, “Have you seen my glasses?!”  To which she glibly responds, “They’re on your head!”  All this time you were looking for something you couldn’t see but yet was in very close proximity! I remember when I was a young single man just starting in ministry and I had a strong desire to be married.  I remember looking around the local church where I grew up spiritually and to my chagrin I could not think of...

06 Sep

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    The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month we are excited to announce our NEW Joy Church App!!! And when you download the APP you will receive daily wisdom notifications like this one...

16 Aug

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  Over the last few months we gave our key verses:  I Corinthians 9:19-23:  “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might win the more.  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law: To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ.) that I might gain them that are without law. ...

09 Aug

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  Here at Joy Church and World Changers Bible Institute we take regular international mission trips.  This is one of my favorite things to do.  Even though I have gone on 30-35 mission trips, I still love participating because I get to see missions fresh and anew through the eyes of people who have never been on a mission trip! Over the last two years Covid has hampered our ability to go overseas on a mission trip.  So this year we looked for a “creative alternative” and decided to do “domestic” missions.  When our missions team first heard about it, a few...

02 Aug

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    The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from Pray the Word book (Discovering that prayer is not just for comfort but for results) Teaching Nugget: Why we should pray the Word. If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.  We know when He hears us, then we have the petition (prayers) we have desire of Him If we ask anything according to His will (which we can know through His Word because His Word is His will), He hears us We know if...

26 Jul

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  Isn’t it time we all left Country Club Christianity?!  The Bible tells us in I Corinthians 9:19-23:  “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might win the more.  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain...