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• Non-membership course

  
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• A Look Back to 1967—The Cost of not Serving a Community

  
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  Midway through the second half of a close and pivotal game against Texas Southern during the 1967 football season, Coach Eddie Robinson’s Grambling team mounted a drive. It ended abruptly when Grambling’s center threw a forearm at the nose tackle who had been dominating him. A referee penalized Grambling and ...
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• as the sign of highest personal respect, call me by my first name

  
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  Kraybill, T he Upside Down Kingdom: "In one stroke , Jesus erases titles (Matt. 23:8-10). Tagging each other with titles has no place in the upside-down kingdom where everyone stands on equal ground" (226). "Titles are foreign to the body of Christ. Terms like Doctor and Reverend perpetuate status ...
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• "On the eve of the Big Bang, over single-malt scotch and ci­gars, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were making a final run-through.."

  
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  Robert Farra Capon: Let me tell you how God redeemed the world. On the eve of the Big Bang, over single-malt scotch and ci­gars, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were making a final run-through of their plans for the event. The Son was enthusiastic. "I think weve nailed it," he said to the Father. "Im ...
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• "The Crimson Horror" and More...

  
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  The latest episode of Who was a treat. Plot-wise it is a simple, ultimately throw-away concept, but the way it was told! The writing, the directing, the creative devices used are all wonderfully done. Where it lacks in cutting edge concepts or herd science fiction it makes up for in humor. This is the best trip to ...
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• Discipleship Group – We’re Going Mobile!

  
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  What is “Discipleship Group?”  Check out THIS POST and then come back.  Welcome back! We’ve been waiting for this.  We haven’t wanted to force or impose our desire do reproduce what’s been taking place in our home in other communities.  It is, however happening quite naturally.  I like to think of ...
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• Love Re-casts Neighbors, Re-forms Neighborhoods – Dallas Willard

  
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  “Incarnation is more than a theological word.” – Dallas Willard Dallas Willard challenges pastors, and all Christians, to see our love for God as the means that funds our love for others, especially our neighbors. I am glad technology allows the preservation of these memorable moments. ...
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• Everybody Belongs, Starting with You

  
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  Everybody Belongs, Starting with You is a post from Brandon A. Cox . Everybody belongs. When we say everybody, we mean every color, every shape, every personality, and people with every kind of story imaginable. Everyone belongs, even before they believe. It’s sad that we have to expound on the word ...
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• Pope Francis on apostolic courage....and making mistakes

  
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  "When the Church loses this apostolic courage, she becomes a stalled Church, a tidy Church. A Church that is nice to look at, but that is without fertility, because she has lost the courage to go to the outskirts, where there are many people who are victims of idolatry, worldliness, and weak thoughts of so many ...
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• Learning from James MacDonald – Matthew Paul Turner Ciphers “Resignation”

  
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  Matthew Paul Turner is sharper than Jethro Bodine. I suspect even Jethro Bodine could cipher resignation as used by James MacDonald. But, he may not have been as insightful as Matthew Paul Turner , After reading and rereading what Mr. MacDonald writes in his resignation, I can’t help but wonder if the man should ...
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• Limits

  
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  Every Wednesday I get a few minutes with the children of our Preschool and Kindergarten. Today I shared about helium and a lesson about God that it can help us understand.  I got this idea from our Children’s Minister. It is a simple object lesson: we cannot see the helium, but we can see what […]
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• the paradox of a Jesuit pope: "sometimes the one on the margins is just what the center needs"

  
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  The delightful  chaplain to the Colbert Report, Fr. James Martin writes: ... Jesuits often work “on the margins,” with groups who may be underserved by the church and other organizations, particularly the poor and marginalized. A few examples: One of my Jesuit brothers is the Catholic prison chaplain at San ...
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• prosperity

  
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  For those that insist that apostasy is increasing or the woes of the Church are new, Frederic D. Huntington wrote the following in Forum Magazine, 1890:It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a ...
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• Community in Prayer

  
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  Prayer is amazing in how much it shapes our lives and communities. Prayer in fact, has an aspect of community built into it by Gods design.  Its called intercession.  As we interceded for others in prayer, we grow toward our attitude toward others. As we see that Moses stood in the gap for others in Psalm 106, we ...
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• what matters

  
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  Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~ Tim Kizziar
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• Is Age Segregated Sunday School Biblical? - Part 1

  
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  How to Determine Whether or Not a Practice is Biblical Today I am beginning a three part series that seeks to answer the question, “Is age segregated Sunday school Biblical?” But in order to answer the question, it seems to me that we must begin by establishing what we mean when we ask it. We must think about ...
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• hesed

  
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  RC Sproul on hesed or loyal love ...There may be no more significant Old Testament description of how God relates to His people than this Hebrew word hesed. I argue that the best translation of this term would be "loyal love." God loves His people genuinely, immutably, loyally. Both the love and the loyalty are, of ...
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• vs "Man, we sure demolished that pagan atheists arguments with the gospel!"

  
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  Eugene Petersons translation (The Message) of Colossians 4:5-6 speaks volumes to how we ought to be found "doing apologetics": "  Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don’t miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech.  The goal is to bring out the best in ...
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• the wrong message

  
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  Great piece by Walt Mueller ...The Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Thats how theologian Karl Barth said Christians should begin their day. Theologian John Stott told us to engage in "Dual Listening". . . the practice of listening to both the Word (Bible) and the world (newspaper) so that we can ...
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• The Church as Blueberry Pancake

  
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  It was either Rocky Supinger or Greg Bolt that turned me on to marketing guru Seth Godin . I subscribed to his blog and read it with interest. I often find in his posts compelling connections or challenges for the church. I’ve considered writing posts that tease out these connections, so here’s a first ...
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