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Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth! We’re going to continue our look at resurrection, but I also seek your prayers tonight and for the upcoming future. My wife and I were finishing Scripture reading last night and about to turn out the light. I needed to get up and turn out a light in the kitchen I’d left on. I’d been having some mild stomach pains, but before I got back ...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I joined “Blogging for Books.” When I joined, I requested the book Under the Overpass by Mike Yankoski. I did not know much about the book, but the premise looked interesting. Mike and his friend Sam spent five months living among the homeless of different cities as homeless people. (Obviously, there were differences, as Mike indicates in his book.) When I finish reading the book – which should no...

Arthur at “the voice of one crying out in suburbia” is putting a damper on some people’s holiness party with his post “A quick thought on holiness.” Arthur says that something is missing from many discussions of holiness: “how our holiness is lived out and impacts others.” What?!? Has Arthur gone mad? Isn’t holiness all about our personal piety and our personal relationship with God? Well, not accor...

I know you have seen them. Perhaps you are even wearing one (or several) right now. They are those colorful silicone rubber bands that, when on the wrist function like  a regular bracelet but when taken off they revert to their original shape (animals, objects, numbers or letters). They are fun and they are widely popular. Kids treat them like commerce and trade them with one another. For a kid who does not bring in an income, the underground w...

We had an amazing time seeing God set people free and grant them their Secret Names. Day 2 and 3 coming soon. Video below or here. Your Secret Name – Olivet Chapel Day 1 of 3 from Kary Oberbrunner on Vimeo. ...

To be honest, for much of my ministry I’ve played a mental game that has wreaked havoc on my self-confidence and distracted me from God’s unique call on my life. I call it the “I Wish” game. I wish I could lead like Jeff Henderson. I wish I was creative like Ben Arment. I wish I could preach like Perry Noble. I wish I could cast vision like Steven Furtick. I wish I could network like Brad Lomenick But comp...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called “The Next Step.” In that post, I talked about how important it is for us to talk about service and to encourage one another to serve others. But, I wondered out loud what it would look like – and what it would mean for the church – if we actually took the next step and left to serve others directly from our meeting together. This is what I called “the next step” R...

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the LORD would not have listened.  But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.  Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!- Psalm 66:18-20Do I cherish sin?  That is an honest question every disciple of Jesus must wrestle with and examine in our lives.  2 Corinthians 13:5 says that we are to examine ourselves to...

Please note: The essays and poems posted for the rest of 2010 will be some of my personal favorites from FlowerDust.net. New essays and poems will begin soon. I hope you enjoy the “best of” my five years of blogging. (Originally written September 23, 2008 – my first and probably only fictional piece. It’s not an area of strength…!) The knock on the classroom door took nobody by surprise. In between defini...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth! I want to thank everyone for their kind support first off in the passing of my grandmother. Some of you might be first time readers and hopefully regular readers who heard me speak at the funeral. We welcome your prayers and donations. I spoke at the funeral about the resurrection for my grandmother and so I’d like to start looking at that topic he...