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Seed of Opportunity

By Alex Anderson – Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church – You cannot go through life without thinking at some point that the things that happen in your life with all its twists and turns are just some random, cosmic, roll of the dice. If good things come, then the moon and the stars must have aligned just right …

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A Mad Father’s Prayer

By Alex Anderson Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church – Mad Mack The first time I met Mad Mack I was somewhat intimidated by him. He looked to me like he had either just left a fight or was getting ready to have one. He tended to be red-faced and he cursed a lot. He was very animated and …

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“Maggie”

By Alex Anderson – Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church – While sitting one Monday at the beach I watched an artist. The artist came with all the equipment and the chosen medium on which to express their personal thoughts, feelings and inner self. I have noticed that many of these particular artists seem to do their most impressionable …

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Deal with the Fear First

By Alex Anderson Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church – Not long ago I asked my wife a drilling question, “What would be the most important advice you could give to another person who ‘just found out’ that they had cancer?” She went completely silent for a few moments, then looked straight into my eyes and without a hint …

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How You Make Them Feel

By Alex Anderson – Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church My son had a friend over one night, and they were discussing something about their college literature class. He remembered a book we had that might help. I was in my study in the middle of an online training when he knocked on the door. Stopping the training, I …

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Montana Sky

By Alex Anderson Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church Self Sufficient Sukie was born in Japan to Buddhist parents. She was taught in her culture that she could achieve anything she wanted in her life if she only worked hard enough. “Be self sufficient and strong,” her parents told her. She began to have a desire to join a …

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“I Want Your Job”

By Alex Anderson, Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church – Some years ago we had a young pastor who led our small groups ministry at Bayside. When T. J. first met our founder and lead pastor, Randy Bezet, Pastor Randy asked him, “What do you want to do with your life?” T.J. responded, “I want your job.” Pastor Randy …

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Creative Energy

By Alex Anderson, Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church  – A few days ago, I took several days to rest and pray alone at a friend’s beach house on Anna Maria Island. It was beautiful and serene. It was just what I needed. On one of the days there, I went over to Hurricane Henri’s to have lunch. I …

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“God Help Us Keep Our Farm”

By Alex Anderson, Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church  – About 45 minutes east of Des Moines, Iowa is a little Dutch community of about a 1000 people called Sully. And just a seven minute drive from Sully is a large 200-acre farm. It seems very large to me since my subdivision lot is barely six tenths of an …

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Go Watch The Squirrels

By Alex Anderson, Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church  – Eight Years Old My dad was a Tobacco farmer, and I remember one morning, when I was about 8 years old, he gave me a chore. He took me out to a newly planted field of Tobacco. When the plants were about 12 inches in height, they had been …

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