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Several hundred years ago, in Florence, Italy, there was an enormous slab of marble that had been abandoned by artists who believed it was unusable. The stone had imperfections, cracks, and problems that made it difficult to work with. For decades, it sat there because nobody believed anything worthwhile could come from it. Then a young artist named Michelangelo came along. He studied the stone, saw something that others couldn't see, and began the painstaking process of carving. Over the...

I've been thinking about the table for over a year now. And the more I've thought about it, the more convinced I've become that this could be one of the most important series I've ever prepared for. We live in a society that's becoming increasingly isolated, fragmented, shallow, superficial, and divided. I believe God is calling us to rediscover something we've overlooked for far too long: the power of the table. Someone once asked a theologian if he could summarize the Bible in three...

There is always renewal before there is revival. Before God brings transformation through us, He wants to bring transformation in us. Before there is national revival, community revival, or revival in the people around us, there is a moment of personal renewal. We see this clearly in the life of Isaiah. A couple in our church, Cliff and Izzy, have been married for nearly sixty years. Before their wedding, they decided to take dance lessons because, between the two of them, they had about four...