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Archive for March, 2008

Great Easter- The Worship Service Edition

Posted in Church, Insipidity, Religion, tagged , , , on March 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

The Great Easter only got better after the Sunrise Service.  Everyone was in a great mood and there was wonderful fellowship and laughter during the breakfast and hour before the service.  Churches go through cycles: sometimes there is strife and the tension in the air is palpable.  Other times there is such a sweet, sweet [...]

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Great Easter- Sunrise Edition

Posted in Church, Insipidity, Religion, tagged , , on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We had a great Easter out here in the horse pasture. The weather was good- sunny and chilly the way that Easter should be. The Sunrise Service went well: about 50 people standing out in the 30 degree weather, wishing their preacher had less blubber and was thus more susceptible to cold. [...]

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What Makes a NT Church?

Posted in Church, Religion, tagged , , , on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I was talking with a couple of my buds about the current obsession in some circles of evangelicalism with “outing” church things as pagan.  You know, the new Barna book which claims that sermons, pulpits, buildings, etc. are all pagan in origin.  To me this smacks of a backlash.  For the longest time the conservative [...]

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A Forty Story Church?

Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I read that they were going to build a 40 story building in downtown Lexington, KY called CentrePointe.
CentrePointe?  Center spelled all old-fashioned-like?  An unnecessary “e” on Point?  Mid-word capitalization?  Vague meaning?
I thought for sure they were talking about a new church plant: CentrePointe is a perfectly typical name for a new church.  In fact, I’m [...]

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