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Community: a synchroblog
This post is part of a synchroblog started by Glenn Hager. Take a look there for more posts on the topic of community and what it means to all the participants. Community is one of the new buzz words in Christianity today. It seems like every other new church starting is ‘community church’ but this…
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Suburban Missionary II
I have decided to post an update on my effort to be a suburban missionary. Heather and I have talked at length about having a block party for our neighbors to get to know them all better but expressly to open the door to share the gospel. Well, I am unfortunately one of those people…
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The Full Story
Zoe Abrielle It was Monday night, I was recovering from a stomach bug and Heather was a tired as ever. We went for a walk around the neighborhood and Heather’s contractions were coming at about 5 minute intervals. However, as soon as we returned to the house the contractions stopped. They started again the evening…
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Memories in the corner of my mind…
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. 10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. 12 Praise be to you, O LORD;…
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Suburban Missionary
“You feel called to Africa but you haven’t gone across the street” — Many Pastors across America. I have heard the above quote many a times in my life from a preacher who is trying to convince people to witness to their neighbors. Although I have a great numbers of problems with modern evangelism techniques…
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Wow, answer to prayer!
I have to add this post to my normal rotation because it was such a great day. I prayed today, more than normal, for God to open the doors for me to share the gospel, to remove the yellow from my back to walk through it and to give me the proper words in the…
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The Parable of the Soils
I just read a section of a new book, “Organic Church” by Neil Cole, which book has me doing some introspection. He had a very interesting section on the Parable of the Sower, or as some call it “The Parable of the Soils”. I like this second name better as the parable seems to say…
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Pride again rears its head.
Pride The other day, in the middle of a somewhat heated debate via email, I realized another aspect where my pride hiders my ability to follow Christ and for that matter to be a good friend. I was so tied up in the idea of being right and clever that I refused to even consider…
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My Journey II
This is a continuation from “My Journey I” So you may want to start there. Campus life also had three large events each year, events where we would take over a hotel and their conference rooms. These were probably the best times I had because I got to hang out with a lot of other…
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My Journey I
Since this blog is subtitled ‘chronicling my life with Christ’ I thought it would be a good idea to actually walk through my experience with Christ. I grew up in a house that didn’t go to church; we went to the mall or in most cases Sunday was the day for my dad and I…