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Church Plants have some advantages…
At risk of sounding like a “review” of a church I wanted to talk about the church we attended over the weekend. Sunday night a few of us went downtown in Columbus to visit Veritas Community Church Heather and I have been looking at becoming involved with the acts29network for some time. I am even…
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Discipleship in practice
How can you know someone you that you know nothing about? It has recently become the avant-garde thing to do to once again proclaim no creed but Christ and to know God outside of church, doctrine or creed. But my question is how do you do that? I was one of the few people I…
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It is all about the Gospel even sex
It is all about the Gospel. Last week at our house church I heard probably the greatest message on sex and marriage I have ever heard. The reason was because it went past pop psychology to the gospel and how our fallen nature affects our marriages. The Gospel should always be at the center of…
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Yearly Bounce
Every year since this blog has been up it seems like I have a large number of readers at the very beginning of the year only to have the numbers drop back down to average by February or March. I assume that is because every year I attempt to read the Bible all the way…
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Happy Reformation Day!!
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Could our financial woes be good for the Gospel?
Last week I wrote a little on our financial woes but I wanted to look on the other side. You know in this time of financial trouble it is easy to loose track of important matters in our panic. It is very possible that if we do things right, the church of Christ could truly…
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Dorie Morgan’s Rising Up » Wasteful Spending in Suburbia » Navigating Twenty-Something Suburban Life
On the heels of my extrmeme Christianity blogs I thoutht it would be good to point out that I am not the only one feeling this way. This is a great little post I just stumbled across. Dorie Morgan’s Rising Up » Wasteful Spending in Suburbia » Navigating Twenty-Something Suburban Life
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How much is bad doctrine to blame for our current financial woes?
A recent Time magazine article looks at just that. The author notes that these prosperity preachers have been telling people for years: That God will “make a way” for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom. Walton says that this encouraged congregants…
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Still a geek…
I just have to say I am stoked….
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I used to believe…
I have said in the past and continue to say to some extent that I don’t trust someone who has never changed their mind on some matter. I have known a few people who are so dogmatic about every single topic that I just tune them out because they obviously are no longer open to…