Kenton beshore biography of abraham lincoln

  • He resigned from Mariners in to start South Coast Community Church, which began as a Bible study group with people at Lincoln.
  • I haven't dealt with anxiety and depression like Abraham Lincoln or Charles Spurgeon, but anxiety has stung me, cut me like a knife, robbing me.
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    After Fall From Grace, Preacher and Career Reborn

    During the most important times in Martha Feenstra’s life--including her battles with breast cancer and a malignant tumor at the base of her tongue--she has relied on Tim Timmons, now pastor of the New Community Church in Irvine, for spiritual support.

    “He married my youngest son, and he buried my husband,” said Feenstra of Costa Mesa. “He’s been a Rock of Gibraltar for me.”

    She met Timmons when she sang in the choir of the now-defunct South Coast Community Church, which at its zenith in the s had more than 10, members and was one of Orange County’s biggest churches.

    Even after his fall from grace amid allegations of misconduct and his eventual return to be head of the small New Community Church, Feenstra has stuck by the preacher. So have many in his new congregation of about

    “I’ve counseled half of Orange County,” Timmons said recently, fiddling with a strand of receding gray hair. “It makes you tired.”

    So do the endless sto

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    Although the next church’s shape is not yet obvious, the forces that give it shape are.

    Leadership Network (LN) is pleased to announce the formation of a series of Leadership Communities for innovative churches whose leaders are thinking differently about what church could be and even should be. For these leaders church has moved from being internally preoccupied to externally focused, from primarily focusing on its institutional maintenance to developing an incarnational influence. These leaders find themselves thinking of kingdom impact more than church growth and are thinking of the church as a catalyst to mobilize all of the community, not just their church, to work on the big things God cares about. These leaders are changing the scorecard for what is measured and valued for the church. The difference in their thinking is

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    My Anxious Thoughts - You Are Not the Only One

    If you’re struggling with anxiety or depression, you’re in good company. Poets, presidents, and preachers have struggled with anxiety and depression. British author Robert Burton said, “If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be funnen in a melancholy man’s heart.”1 President Abraham Lincoln wrestled deeply with depression, saying at one point, “I am now the most miserable man living. If what inom feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better inom can not tell; inom awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.”2 St. John of the Cross, a priest, coined the phrase “dark night of the soul”3 so that he could describe the pain and darkness of this world that can overwhelmChristians. Charles Spurgeon, called “the prince of preachers,” struggled deeply with nedstämdhet. “You may be surrounded wit