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Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty, founding pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, passed away quietly early Sunday morning after a battle with lymphoma, surrounded by his family and close friends.

I wish I had the opportunity to become a closer friend of Pastor Billy Joe. For the better part of our ministry lives, Cathy and I admired he and his wonderful wife Sharon from a distance. It was only recently that…

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Tags: northstar • church • america • mission • time • grace • building • courage • god • lives
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For the last few days, my thoughts have been full of all the blessings and opportunities God has placed in our midst at Northstar Church.  Each of these are things that make you go WOW… what a God we serve!

So I’ve tried to gather some of these thoughts and share them with you.

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Tags: northstar • church • gospel • life • mission • land • grace • building • courage • construction
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Every so often, I am going to lay down the “Friday 5.”  This is a short and to the point collection of observations I have about life, the church and people.  I’m not going to try to give you scripture and verse for everything since much of this will simply be my own opinions.  In other words, take them for what they’re worth…

Categories: General •Injustice •Personal •Thoughts
Tags: grace • courage • observations • friday • generosity • injustice
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So I hope you like our new blog site… because you know, that’s what this world needed was one more blogger, right?  Hey, I enjoy writing and if some of you enjoy reading my thoughts, along with those of our Northstar “staffers,” then that makes it all worthwhile.

I must admit I was more than a little happy to see a few comments on my first blog… wow… people came, they read, they commented and they left.  That’s nice. 

On to my observation today.  I like David Letterman.  Yea, he’s pretty darn funny.  Love the top ten list, which has become an American staple…

Categories: Church •Church Planting •Leadership •Personal
Tags: northstar • church • america • leaders • socks • pastors • dave letterman • funny
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In my 32 years of being a Christ follower, I had never completely understood the grace of God. I had sung “Amazing Grace” a thousand times, but couldn’t remember it being taught once. I had two things that seemed to prevent me from really experiencing full-on grace. First, I am an athlete. I still play hockey, football, tennis, basketball and ping pong—yes, ping pong. You keep score. You have winners and losers in every game. All that matters is how well you played—did you measure up…

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Tags: grace • humility • turtle • athlete
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