3 Ways 2024 Can Be Better
Medical science and secular sociologists all realize that the American pace of life isn’t working; in fact, it’s detrimental. Sleep scientists are telling us there’s a sleep epidemic in the …
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Jim Essian planted The Paradox Church in 2011, an Acts 29 Network church in Downtown Fort Worth, and serves as Lead Pastor. Jim played eight years of professional baseball in the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Tigers organizations, prior to planting.
Jim and his wife Heather have been married for 14 years, and they have three girls: Harper Grace, Hollis Jane, and Hadden Faith.
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How To Long-Suffer In Pastoral Ministry
In my home office, over the wine fridge filled with Topo Chico, coconut water, and a few good bottles I’m saving for those “new wine” moments, hang two frames. One …
Something Better Than Your Inner Child
We find ourselves affixed in the Age of the Autonomous Self — self-discovery, self-help, and pretty dang selfish. The famous are our prophets.The gospel message is self-actualization, self-achievement, self-dependence.The mystery …
Revival & Rain: The Time Is Now
The world is broken. Ravaged by sin, torn apart in conflict, fractured it seems in every which way, and for the first time ever, technology globalizes each fissure and sends …
On Gossip
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and …
Men Are Called To Die
Husband. Father. Pastor. Headship. Servant leader. Whatever these words mean to you, and, more importantly, however the Bible might define them, one thing is clear…if that is you, you are …