If there is one scripture passage that haunts me day and night, it’s this one. We always pray that God would bless us more and “enlarge our territory”. But what does that really look like? Gather around and listen.
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This Fall Elevation Church is launching our third location…
…in Uptown Charlotte.
I’ve never seen our staff so giddy about an opportunity. They are predicting that this thing is going to explode. I’m inclined to agree.
We’ll be meeting on Sundays at 10am (tentative time) at the McGlohon Theater, in Spirit Square at the corner of [...]

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Lots of pastors preach through books of the Bible verse by verse, thus alleviating the “What shall I preach about this week?” conundrum. That’s how I was taught to do it in seminary. That’s not how I do it. At least, not right now.
I do take the task of excavating the message [...]

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Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) says that for him, stories are not created things. They are found things. He compares them to fossils in the ground. His job as a writer isn’t about making a story from scratch. It’s about excavating a story that’s already there.
Is that true for a [...]

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