Tag: church
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A MONDAY PRAYER
I just returned from lunch–and this is my noontime prayer on this Monday. “Dear Lord, thank you for sunshine and warm weather today. Thank you for a great wife who wakes up early to spend the mornings with me. Thank you for beautiful daughters, for a home, for a reliable vehicle to drive and for…
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SMALL GROUP FINALE
Last night my small group finished our semester with a cookout (it was a cookout, not a barbeque–barbeque is a technical and specific word that does not apply to just any old thing cooked on a grill) in a local park. The weather was lousily cold and windy but the food was spectacular: Rice Krispy…
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GROWN UP CHURCH–A CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S JUNE COVER STORY
Last night I took advantage of our church’s summer schedule by catching up on some magazine reading. I finished the recent edition of CT (Christianity Today) which features an article about how church culture has become like a giant youth group. The article by Thomas E. Bergler is based upon his new book (aren’t all…
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MOVE–THE THIRD PART
Part Three of Move is the overall summary on what the authors believe churches can do to “move” people from the first category of Exploring Christ to final mature category of Christ Centered. The section contains six chapters with the first one serving as an introduction to the concept of “Spiritual Vitality Index” which is…