tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335310862012-02-16T16:59:36.925-05:00Joe Batluck is the Student Pastor at Denton Bible Church in Denton, TXJoe Batluckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515235274030202314noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33531086.post-17730038640195001752007-06-21T16:01:00.001-04:002007-06-21T16:01:51.813-04:00

summer chill Originally uploaded by batluck summer fun in the pool

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a picture she will regret someday... Originally uploaded by batluck being young is so much fun.....

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This morning I was sitting at a coffee shop with my 5 year old son Ethan on my lap. He was sipping his hot chocolate and we were playing hangman on his superman computer when I observed something that totally blew me away. An middle aged woman walks in and is standing in line and one of shop's employees who knows her from her daily visits walks by and asks her how she was doing. It was evident

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Seriously…I often take myself too much sometimesThinking I am much when I am notThinking I am a difference When all I am is a symptomSeriously…I don’t take God enoughThinking he isn’t muchThinking he isn’t a differenceSeriously…Does it really matter?Do I count for something?Its not that I don’t know who I amOr have no confidence in what He can doI am not an idiotSeriously…But I know he can do

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Starbucks. The great american addiction. Every place I have every traveled, in the States or Europe or Asia, there is a Starbucks within reach. The city of Denton was for a long time deprived of a free-standing Starbucks, forced to rely on the small stands you found in Kroger or Barnes and Nobles that simply "brewed" Starbucks, but were in the end just imposters. After all, what makes

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It's amazing how easy it is to lose sight of the main thing. We get so lost in the sea of details that we take our eyes of the target. Suddenly, we find ourselves consumed by all the little things that were never intended to dominate our thoughts and discussions. Saddly, such is often the case when it comes to the Gospel. We lose sight of the fact that the Gospel is simply and soley about God

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When I was in first grade, my family was living in Germany (dad was a chaplain in the army). We had some good family friends who had a daughter my age. Her name was Kimberly. Our families would get together often and Kimberly loved to play "house." Me, being the smart kid that I was at the age of 7, realized the brownie points I could earn with a good looking, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl my

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“…speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love” Eph 4:15-16 (NLT)Talking. We all do it. As leaders it is part of our ministry, as people it is

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Proverbs 2:1 “My child, listen to what I say and treasure my commands." So often it is easy to get caught up in the pursuit of knowledge to the point that we feel more spiritual simply because we are memorizing more, reading our Bibles more and we can trade banter on various theological issues. Yet the writer of this proverb reminds us that there is a goal that is higher than the simple

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Motivation is everything. Without motivation, things become a task, a chore, something we must do instead of something we want to do. Without motivation, the flame of passion can dwindle to a mere flicker that the smallest amount of doubt can quickly extinguish. Yet motivation for the sake of motivation is not enough. It must be true motivation, pure motivation, for wrong motivation, the kind

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