Check Out The Blog Series

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I wanted to write this post and highlight a new feature that has been up for a few months

Blog Series!

You can find the tab on the very top of the blog and inside the page is organized content according to different series we are doing.

One of the great benefits of a blog that has many writers is the opportunity to do series like this and organize thoughts and posts around certain topics.

Let me highlight a couple of my favorites for you.

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Kevin Costner Lied To Me

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[this is part of the series “A.P.E. in the Movies” read the other post here]

This is a post by Luke Cawley

Kevin Costner. It turns out he lied to me.

I’d come to trust him as he busted Al Capone in The Untouchables, exposed the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy in JFK, and wooed Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. So it was natural for me to keep trusting  him when I watched Field of Dreams. I was just a teenager when I first saw it. And I must have watched it over a dozen times.

If you’ve never seen the movie, Kevin Costner hears a voice whispering in his ear that “if you build it, they will come”. He takes this to mean that he must build a baseball field on his farm and that people will come and visit as a result. He obeys the voice, adventures ensue, he reconnects with the ghost of his father. Normal everyday stuff. The film ends with streams of cars driving towards his baseball field. He built it and they are coming.

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Great Evangelistic Preaching

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I just got back from Urbana with 16,000 others and my final reflection is about great evangelistic preaching.

Ram Sridharan, an Area Director in Ohio, gave a great evangelistic message and call to follow Jesus where hundreds responded to the gospel. Here are four things that I loved about the talk and I think are key ingredients to all great evangelistic talks.

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