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Archive for May, 2007

Conversions guaranteed!

I’m not sure exactly why this bothered me, but it did.  I was going through a pile of old mail that had accumulated here at the church in the absence of a minister and I came across an ad for one of those teams that put on shows featuring feats of strength.  You know what [...]

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Sermon: Fellowship

This is the second sermon in my series based on Bob Russell’s “When God Builds a Church” points. So far, faith and fellowship. No, I’m not copying Bob Russell sermons, just using the points that he uses for chapters. It’s a good sermon series for a new start at a church.
Enjoy!
 

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Forging an Identity

Churches get reputations in their local community. This is something that most ministers know, but few parishoners really think about as they are absorbed in their congregation so much that sometimes they miss this crucial fact, like a fish might miss the fact that she is surrounded by water. Churches get reputations among [...]

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Here is part one of my 10 sermon series based on Bob Russel’s book “When God Builds a Church”.  No, I don’t just preach from his book, I pretty much just use his 10 points on what a church needs to be a church that God builds.  The first one I did for this series [...]

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A breath of fresh air!

Made it through my first week, and my first 4 hour board meeting. And you know what? I feel GREAT. Oh, I know, you all are sitting back there, sipping your lattes, snickering a bit and getting foam all over your keyboards, thinking: “Welcome to the honeymoon, preacher-boy, they’ll be roasting your spleen before too [...]

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Getting Settled

Yikes, sorry to be so silent for so long. But, this time I have excuses. Friday the 11th we drove to Kentucky to close on our house. Saturday we packed up our stuff in WV, drove it 2.5 hours here to our new home and unpacked it… all on the same day. We spent our [...]

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I’ll be honest, I’ve always kind of stayed out of the evolution debate. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I believe that God created the universe and that He has guided every detail of Creation.  I was just never sure how much room there was for varying theories of Godly Creation.  Could the view of 6 [...]

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