New poll: What are your favorite things about kids

I've enjoyed meeting the kids at our new church. They are awesomely honest. (You can read one of the stories here.) I'm interested to find out what your favorite things about kids are. Tell me in this poll or tell me more in the comments.






What's your favorite thing about

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RevTrev.com 2013 in review

2013 was the year RevTrev.com crashed. I had the big idea of turning into a Christian Social Media Bookmarking site and that lost my readers and Google rank.

I turned off Jetpack during the time it was a Christian social media bookmarking site (here's the new one I created) so the stats they

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Choose to live positively with a Negativity Fast

The 2014 International Negativity Fast was a great success.

If you want to be on our list for our next negativity fast, simply sign up using the form below.

Here are some resources to help you any time
Book of Ephesians for Men
Book of Ephesians for Women
Identity In Christ for

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7 Effective Strategies To Control Your Negative Thoughts

Every so often I get a reminder of different things that really tick me off. Often it’s around a negativity fast. Wouldn’t you know, there is another reminder butt up against my garage right now.

I really don’t like having others expectations thrust on me. The old “Well, you weren’t

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Cool kid, cool dad, what more could you want?

This post was originally from Huffington Post

It is far too cool not to share with my readers. It's clips like this that make me want to learn so much more. I know enough to know why most of these are only a few seconds long. Daniel is going to be the best Dad on the block for a long time to

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I'm going to do it...

I'm going to do it...

So many people have been saying, "I want to read the book a publisher told you would send people to hell." that I need to release it to the public.

I mentioned it in my book "Hope in Transition".

I haven't looked at it for a while. I wrote it so long ago and my

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What's up with Noah?

There's a debate raging once again in the Christian world. This one is stirred up by people who know how to get press.

How can the movie Noah be so contrary to the Biblical account?

First off, I haven't seen the movie. I've heard the reviews from Christians raging against atheist

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I just have to brag on my daughter...

My daughter Taya is an amazing young women.

She turned 16 this week and wanted to have a party with her friends.

We had too many kids too long in too small a place - but it was great.

Taya asked that instead of presents, people could help her donate to the International Justice

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Challenging Thoughts for a Monday...

It's the holiest of days...Easter Monday. (My tongue is in the side of my cheek.)

As I write this, I'm listening the video I'll post below. It's a challenging thought for a Monday. I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on it.

Are we in a reformation?

What do you think? Tell me in the

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Just what I needed after today... He Awose!

I had one of those days that got longer because I didn't bring what I needed to get the job done.

The good news is I was able to include more last minute items in the announcement video.

I'm now waiting to for my daughter so I can pick her up from horse riding and catching up with friends

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Cleaning up a few things

Wow, I've been posting so much on my church website that I'm shocked to see I haven't been doing so much writing on RevTrev.com lately.

I made some time to clean up a few things today.

1. A number of articles that are still getting get traction even though I've put them into the archives

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Heaven - a brief look at enternity

This is a message I shared at Harvest Community Church - our church in Beaumont. It's part of a series I'll be posting here as well. Enjoy and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Have you seen the movie, or read the book “Heaven is Real?”



I haven’t done either so I can really

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5 things you never want to forget about spiritual growth

I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits

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Blog like the best

I've had a crazy-busy week at church this week. I still have a first draft of a constitution to write, a message to share and a house to prepare for fifteen to twenty teens tonight.

I got a lot of the constitution done in the emergency room as I waited with my daughter to get x-rays after

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Are these domains for you?

OK.

I've done it.

Each of these domains had a dream attached to them.

I'm giving them up to focus on what God has for me right now.

So I've listed these on GoDaddy Auctions. I've never done this before. I don't know what will happen. I'm not sure when they'll be up, but it will

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Are these domains for you?

OK.

I've done it.

Each of these domains had a dream attached to them.

I'm giving them up to focus on what God has for me right now.

So I've listed these on GoDaddy Auctions. I've never done this before. I don't know what will happen. I'm not sure when they'll be up, but it will

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What if Everything You 'Know' About Your Life is Wrong?

Do you ever play that game "What if?"

Sometimes it's a distraction. 

Sometimes it brings focus.

Often it's based on our lack instead of our hopes.Either focus can lead us in the right or wrong direction.
What if everything you know about your life is wrong?
Have you ever taken the

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Why I'm blogging for smaller church pastors

There are a lot of RevTrev Readers  who are pastors. Without interviewing every single one of them, I know many who I interact with are pastors of smaller churches.

I've been a pastor of a smaller church. It grew to become to what most in North America consider a medium size church. I was

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What I know about how the Bible came to be

Ever wonder why we have the Bible we have?

How did the Bible come to be?

Writers of alternative fiction often insist that other ancient documents are more true than our book.

They have the right to be wrong...but you should know at least a brief overview of how the Bible we have

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4 Things We Know We'll Be Doing in Heaven

If you missed the first article on what Heaven is like you can find it here. In this article we'll look at what we'll be doing in heaven and what's left on earth for us to accomplish now.



Heaven is  your destiny. It’s what you were created for. You were created to walk with God in

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The Problem of Being in Community

So far in our “Did God Really Say?” Series we’ve looked at how we can discern what’s right and wrong by two of the three tools God has given us.

We’ve looked at why and we can trust the Bible.
We’ve looked at why and how we can trust the Spirit.

Today we start in on why

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Taking care of hidden garbage

I often say, "The only thing I know about websites are things I've messed up with...and I know a lot about websites."

Well, I've learned a lot in the last few...hours I suppose.

I posted this on Facebook as I waited for a database I destroyed to be replaced with a backup:
What you should

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Help support a budding artist who want to change the world

Since I posted this yesterday and it went across our social networks...only to be deleted by a database restore... orders have been pouring in.

Our daughter Taiessa  is a budding artist and had an idea to raise funds for a service trip she was on. Check it out...
 "Salt of the Earth"
by

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Help me pick my cover for Soul Seers Book 1

Here they are once again. The last post got lost in my database oops.  The talented ladies in my life are working on a combination of these covers. If you can let us know which ones you like and why, it would be a great help.
1.Vote in the poll




What cover do you like best for

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Identity in Christ for Men

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Identity In Christ for Women

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Book of Ephesians for Women

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Book of Ephesians for Men

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Return of free resources to RevTrev.com

I'm doing a lot to get RevTrev.com running faster and smoother. I'm thinking the big reason it keeps crashing is the amount of traffic I'm  getting. Wordpress stats don't count what my server does. This month, according to my server I'll over 50,000 users to this site.

I'm  looking into

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What if you can't always trust your pastor to tell you the truth?

I wrote a post on 18 pastors I could never trust. I thought it would be good to turn the table and give you some thoughts to consider why you might not be able to trust your pastor to tell you the truth.

Let's assume your pastor is a godly person who seeks hard after God and does what is

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Smaller Church Pastors and Social Media

I shared a message through Hootsuite to my social networks that I found on an old blog post:

[Tweet "Social Media is an excellent tool but a terrible taskmaster @revtrev"]

Now if you don't understand 45% of that opening line, this series of articles is probably not one you want to follow.

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Why people outside the church doubt the Bible

"It's not relevant to me" is often how people who aren't christian  respond when I talk to them about the Bible.

Yes, there's a bit of respect if they know how ancient of book the Bible is. Most people I talk to seem to think that if Christians lived like the Bible tells us to live, the

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The Mystery of Trusting the Bible is Solved

I'm doing up videos to cover the parts in this message that need to be developed. You'll be able to find them here. 

 Why should you trust the Bible? Can you trust the original documents? Can you trust how it came to be? Can you trust the translations? Can you trust it's for today? In this

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The best way a pastor can announce difficult news...

Brandon Cox is an amazing guy (and pastor) I've been connecting with him online for some time. He's a Pastors.com and BrandonACox.om  He's also the pastor of Grace Hills Church he does a lot of fun stuff online. This one has my attention.
Pastor Brandon Cox, Pastor of Grace Hills Church in

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Why did Jesus call himself the son of man instead of the son of God?

Here is a question a friend of mine asked me a little while ago about the plot line of a few of Dan Brown book's  (affiliate link) I thought I'd post my response below because I know others are asking the same question.
Question:
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3 ways to know it's the Spirit speaking

Next Paul and Silas traveled through the area of Phrygia and Galatia, because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time. Then coming to the borders of Mysia, they headed north for the province of Bithynia,but again the Spirit of Jesus did

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Happy Birthday to my Amazing Wife

Today is Kaz's birthday.

We spent the morning  at the Muttart Conservatory enjoying the foliage.



It was a fun morning. We're talking about doing it every week while we can.

Karen is an amazing women. I can't tell you enough about her. Here's the poem I wrote for her birthday card.

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Soul Seers book 1 &#8211; Shadows Update May 30, 2014

I promised myself that I would blog weekly about syndicating Soul Seers.

I know when I blog, I encourage myself to get after the many tasks. With the slowness of my site every time I post and share over my social networks, I paused formating Soul Seers book 1 - Shadows.

I know the benefit of

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100 years of change

Explore more visuals like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually.

What do you think will happen in the next 100 years?


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3 Facts About Your Life That Will Help You Change

I'm someone who enjoys change. I see the virtue of change for the sake of change at times.

I know that makes me a strange duck.

Most people need to have a reason to change. Usually the reason is, "It's more uncomfortable to not change than it is scary to change." There's the

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The Smaller Church Pastor On Twitter

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter...oh my!

What's a small church pastor to do?

Full disclosure...Twitter is my favorite social networking site. I was hooked when I found out God answers prayer on Twitter. That's right, we've seen all kinds of answers to prayer - financial, headaches,

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How can I witness to my mormon friends?

A friend of mine came to me the other week to ask how she can tell her Mormon friends about Jesus. They consider themselves Christians and she knows they don't have the same view of God and Jesus. It's not an easy thing to tell someone you care about that they've got it wrong.

I've had

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The Bible Is Attacked Inside The Church

Just because people say, "I believe the Bible" doesn't mean much unless they live it. 

The Bible is attacked by Christians, and not just by those who leave it to gather dust on their shelf.

In this video I talk about How and why the Bible is attached Inside the church
How And Why The

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Don't think you know fathers until you read this

There is something lacking in our culture and it's a healthy (and Biblical) understanding of fathers. In this article we'll look at how God has revealed himself as Father and what that means for us today. Don't think you know fathers until you read this.

In the Hebrew Scriptures we see God

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11 Ways the Spirit Speaks to You

This article originally appeared in a post I wrote. If you can make it to Beaumont on Sundays, join us! And please share any image across your social networks using the buttons that should appear as you hover over them.

The Spirit is always speaking. You are his sheep, you know his

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Why I think I enjoy post apocalyptic fiction

Not long ago I was talking with my son about something that I can't remember now.

But I do remember how the conversation went...

"I like post apocalyptic stories better than apocalyptic ones." I told him.

"What's the difference." He asked.

"Apocalyptic stories are about the end

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All my YouTube videos to this point in time

So I just found out that Youtube  makes it easy to create a playlist of all the videos on a channel. It's fun to see how things have developed and changed down through the years. Enjoy!
Watch my YouTube videos from RevTrevTV

Watch RevTrevTV on YouTube
[Tweet "Watch and Subscribe to

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7 ways a smaller church pastor can easily use YouTube

Youtube (or any video sharing site) is a great tool for pastors of any size church.

Why is that?

Video is storytelling and storytelling is connecting with people who you can minister to in your congregation or anywhere in the world.

It’s really awesome!

You can grow a world wide

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Can you trust the translations of the Bible?

Do you have a favorite translation? Maybe you're lost in a sea of choices? Maybe you wonder if you can trust any translation of the Bible.

In this video I talk about why you can trust the translations and why we have so many.

Ask me any comments or recommendation in the comments. I'd be

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4 tips I've learned to hear the Spirit speak

This message is part of our "Did God Really Say?" series, that shows us how to wisely use discernment. We've looked at why you can trust the Bible. We're in the the middle of looking at why you can trust the Spirit by discussing how to know what the Spirit does and how to know how the Spirit

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