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A Struggling Pastor’s Journey to Joy
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A Struggling Pastor’s Journey to Joy

For many years, I was a joyless, powerless, struggling pastor. However, late in life and ministry, God opened my eyes to his glory, the depth of my pride, and the joyful wonder of the gospel. This changed everything for me. In 1988, Christ Community Church started in our living room in central New Jersey. We averaged 86 attendees for the first year—a good beginning. A year later, we added a second pastor, Rick Ravis. Attendance grew each year until 2002, when it reached 267. We were a growing, multistaff church that met on the campus of Rutgers University. I was on the path to ministerial success—until two events happened. Two Interruptions In August 2002, I decided to deliver my sermon without any notes. While studying at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, I’d been trained to preach without notes, and for a year in the 1990s, that was what I did. Although I reverted to using notes again, I didn’t believe it was the most effective way to preach. So I chose a Sunday, prepared carefully, and stood before my congregation—just me and my Bible. However, I felt strange and struggled to complete the sermon. Afterward, I told my wife, Patricia, what had happened. She said, “That sounds like a panic attack!” Not wanting to experience that again, I visited a counselor. Yet it did happen again, and again, and again. For almost a decade, every time I preached, I wrestled with anxiety. For almost a decade, every time I preached, I wrestled with anxiety. The second interruption in my journey toward success was the “big decline.” After increasing for over a decade, our church’s attendance began to decrease. By 2011, our congregation was about half of what it had been in 2002. Our leaders recognized we wouldn’t survive if the downward spiral continued, and we became desperate—so desperate that we concluded our only hope was Spirit-produced renewal. We began preaching about renewal, held “renewal conferences,” and took the entire congregation away for a renewal weekend. Some of us started praying for renewal weekly at 5:30 a.m. Praying for Renewal In the fall of 2016, Rick took an online course on leading a church to pray. It was taught by Daniel Henderson, who leads a ministry called Strategic Renewal. After completing the course, Rick recommended our leaders read Henderson’s book Old Paths, New Power. It discusses the importance of churches praying together, but I applied its lessons to my own life. I was a pastor who didn’t pray, at least not as I should have. I was busy; I had sermons to write, emails to answer, and meetings to lead. I wanted to pray, but too often, I didn’t. So I decided to pray for an hour each day, following the model taught by Henderson—worship-based, Scripture-fed, Spirit-led prayer. That first day, as I worshiped God out of the Scriptures, I freshly experienced God’s beauty and wonder. A profound sense of awe filled me. Time slowed as I caught a glimpse of God’s glory. I began to see that my people-pleasing, defensiveness, tendency to compare myself to others, and joylessness stemmed from pride. I confessed my pride and acknowledged my self-focused way. Then I experienced an unfamiliar emotion. What is that? I wondered. Oh, that must be joy. And it was. Not joy for a moment, a day, a week, or a month, but ongoing, enduring, transforming joy. I was 63. It was a spiritual awakening. Learning to Laugh What changed? Everything: My preaching became deeper and more fervent. I’d never been the leader I wanted to be, but now I began to lead. My self-conscious introversion dissipated. Five months later, I received an email from my brother. We talked weekly, but I hadn’t mentioned any spiritual experience. He wrote, “Remind me to ask you the next time we talk. I have noticed a remarkable change in you.” When we spoke, he said the first thing he noticed was that I’d developed a sense of humor. He was right; I’d learned to laugh. And it was joy. Not joy for a moment, a day, a week, or a month, but ongoing, enduring, transforming joy. The change was so dramatic that some people in my church called it “Dennis 2.0.” What happened to me? I wondered. Was it conversion? The baptism of the Spirit? I answered no to both. I believe it was a Spirit-produced awakening to the beauty of God, the depth of my sin, and the joyful wonder of the gospel. I was “filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:19) and began to live out of the overflow. That enabled me to live the gospel, no longer as duty but from the abundance of Christ in me. Gospel awakening can be sudden (as it was for me) or gradual (as it is for most). But however it happens, gospel awakening is essential to gospel living. Ongoing Joy I didn’t want to experience a mountaintop only to return to my pit of brokenness. I wondered, Is it possible for me (and others) to experience ongoing joy? Is it possible to have joy in a world of suffering and sorrow? Yes. I’ve discovered such a way, a gospel way—living in union with Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, and for the glory of the Father. This Jesus-centered, Spirit-empowered way brings joy even in a world of trouble. Once, before 2017, at my denomination’s annual conference, a pastor asked, “What’s wrong?” He’d seen the struggle and joylessness on my face. I don’t remember what I said to him, but he was right; something was wrong. A few years later, after 2017, I sat down for lunch at the same conference with a pastor I didn’t know well. He said to me, “You seem like a joyful person!” He was right. The joy of the Lord shone on my face.
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The 3 Coolest Brands We Saw At Global Connect @ IFA 2025
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The 3 Coolest Brands We Saw At Global Connect @ IFA 2025

During IFA 2025, BGR attended the Global Connect event, a keynote focused on innovators, founders, and new tech. These are the highlights.
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The 3 Coolest Brands We Saw At Global Connect @ IFA 2025
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During IFA 2025, BGR attended the Global Connect event, a keynote focused on innovators, founders, and new tech. These are the highlights.
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Unique copper alloy ingot found in Sweden
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Unique copper alloy ingot found in Sweden

A copper alloy ingot from the from the Scandinavian pre-Roman Iron Age that emerged from Särdal on the west coast of Sweden, in 2022 is the first of its kind ever found in Sweden. An analysis of its composition has found it is also a metallurgic twin to metal hoards from the same period found in Poland. It was actually discovered almost 50 years ago by the Pedersen family when they were digging a fence post hole in their garden. No other objects were found with it or in the immediate area. They didn’t recognize it as a prehistoric artifact and stored it in their workshop for night on five decades until a friend of the family who was an amateur historian suggested that they show it to archaeologists at the Halland Museum of Cultural History. It is a plano-convex ingot, a disc-shaped artifact with a flat topside and curved underside manufactured by open casting into a shallow mould or cavity in the ground. Also known as bun ingots or casting cakes, the pog-shaped ingots have been found across the Mediterranean area and continental Europe, with numerous examples found on Bronze Age and Iron Age shipwrecks. Studies have shown that even though Scandinavia is rich in copper ore, it was not mined in the Bronze Age. Instead, all copper was imported from as far away as southern Europe, and the volume of trade was enormous. Researchers estimate that literal tons of foreign copper were imported into Scandinavia each year going back as far as the 3rd and 2nd millennium B.C. As essential raw materials, ingots are an important source of information about how metal was sourced and traded from the Bronze Age and later into the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age. Lead isotope and elemental analysis of copper alloy archaeological artifacts can pinpoint the geographic origin and chronology of the ore. The Särdal ingot emerged just as researchers at the University of Gothenburg. were running a new investigation into Bronze Age metal use in western Sweden, and since the plano-convex shape and dimensions of the ingot were typical of Bronze Age pieces, they incorporated this unique find into their study. Much to their surprise, the analyses revealed that the ingot was of much later date, composed of copper-zinc-tin-lead alloy typical of the Iron Age. Information sharing with Polish archaeometallurgy researchers led to another surprise discovery: the Särdal ingot shared almost the exact same metallurgic composition two hoards of metal rods found in Poland between 2013 and 2015. The source of the copper for all of the objects in the study, including the Särdal ingot and Polish rod ingots, were the zinc-rich copper ores occur of southwest Spain. Iberian copper becomes a dominant ore source for Scandinavia already during the Late Bronze Age. Data from the subsequent Iron Age are not abundant, but the Iberian mines are intensely exploited during this period as well […]. Additionally, the quaternary alloys individuated in all the studied material is increasingly common in the Mediterranean since the 1st millennium BCE […], largely replacing the Bronze Age typical binary copper-tin alloy. Studies from the Baltic regions, which were intensely networking with West Sweden and southern Scandinavia during the pre-Roman Iron Age […], indicate that Cu-Sn-Zn-Pb alloy of the type from Särdal and the Iława Lakeland was present in the area already during the second half of the 1st millennium BCE […]. We propose therefore that the plano-convex ingot from Halland and the rod ingots from Poland can be both considered the outcome of maritime trade in metal connecting Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea to the Iberian Peninsula during the period corresponding to the Scandinavian pre-Roman Iron Age, following ancient routes in use since the Late Bronze Age.
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Wow: ICE Has Reportedly Told Kilmar Abrego Garcia His New Destination - and It's Not Uganda
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Wow: ICE Has Reportedly Told Kilmar Abrego Garcia His New Destination - and It's Not Uganda

The Trump administration may have finally outmatched the legal team representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, if what's being reported tonight pans out. Readers might recall that the alleged MS-13 gang…
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Schumer Threatens to ‘Force’ a Senate Vote on Repealing Trump’s Tariffs
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Schumer Threatens to ‘Force’ a Senate Vote on Repealing Trump’s Tariffs

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks to reporters at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesWASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are…
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Young Man and the Sea: Teen Fishing Off New England Coast Catches Huge Halibut Bigger Than Him
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Young Man and the Sea: Teen Fishing Off New England Coast Catches Huge Halibut Bigger Than Him

Jackson Denio stands with a 177-pound halibut he caught Monday on a deep-sea fishing trip in Hampton, N.H., on Sept. 2, 2025. Jill Denio via APHAMPTON, N.H.—A New Hampshire teenager on a deep-sea fishing…
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R&B Singer Angie Stone’s Children Sue Truck Company for Her Death in Highway Crash
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R&B Singer Angie Stone’s Children Sue Truck Company for Her Death in Highway Crash

Angie Stone poses as she walks down the red carpet during the 2009 Soul Train Awards taping at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 2009. Gregory Smith/AP PhotoATLANTA—Two children…
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Setting Up a Portable Defense Kit While Traveling in 2025
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Setting Up a Portable Defense Kit While Traveling in 2025

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Gutfeld: Trump SMASHED this mirror
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Gutfeld: Trump SMASHED this mirror

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