Category: By Dustin Bryson
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I Heart Christmas
Christmas is a wonderful time of year for many reasons. My favorite is the classic Christmas flick. Last night I watched “A Christmas Story” with about 35 teenagers and it was apparent that many of them had never seen the film before. The laughter was uproarious as Ralphy gets his mouth washed out with soap…
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Ride For Africa | Pre Ride
A lot is happening in Africa. Some would say we have enough problems here in America to deal with and that attitude would be perfectly fine if Jesus had died for Americans, but He didn’t. He died for humans, that includes Africans, Frenchies, and Iraqi’s. His love wasn’t bound by masses of water and his…
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Are You a Purple Cow?
Seth Godin wrote a book called Purple Cow “Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”. In short the story of the purple cow goes like this. Seth and his family were on a road trip and his kids were in the back doing what kids do, fight, and his wife was zoned out. As the road…
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Rocky Gets Saved?
Hollywood has been pimping people for a hundred years. They have chewed up and spit out hundreds of thousands of wanna be actors and actresses and then wiped the corners of their collective mouths and let slip a satisfying burp. Now they are ready to pimp the church. You see it’s the job of film…
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Unlovely
The facts are these. 1. Our purpose is to love God + 2. Our purpose is to love others. Everything else that comes with our faith are just details. You may be a Christian who chooses to live in the details or you may decide your life is better spent just trying to master the…
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The Wisdom of Youth
Yes this is a shameless plug, and I will concur that his may not be the correct venue, but since I write on Monday’s I get to do stuff like this. The youth of Eastgate are amazing! I am sure you were already aware of that, but for a few minutes I would like to…
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While working on a sermon awhile back I was once again struck at the awesome love of God. I am floored at how God chose to extend His loving hand toward us, his broken children. It’s an easy equation really. One that shouldn’t require much discussion. God loves us like crazy, Sends Jesus to show…
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The Delete Button
As a photographer one of the things I love about digital shots is the ability to immediately erase any shots that are blurry, too dark, or just plain messed up. Wouldn’t it be nice if our lives had that delete button? Earlier in the day I was discussing television shows with a group of people…
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Church Marketing and YOU!
Sometimes words dance. Sometimes they go together like peanut butter and chocolate, sometimes they don’t. Church & Marketing are two words that simply don’t gel. Unfortunately many churches gauge success by numbers and dollars. When the numbers dip, they run an ad in the local paper in order to get butts in seats, and dollars…
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