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Posted on May 12, 2011, 4:29 pm | 6 comments
Topics: Getting Started
Who am I to tell someone to accept my religion? This question is often asked, and not just by skeptics who have always been outside the orbit of the Christian church. Instead, it is often asked by young people, raised in a Christian context, who accept the idea that God is and that He spoke through Jesus. However, they see missions
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Posted on April 26, 2011, 11:11 am
Topics: Congregational Life
Denying Jesus' resurrection started the day he arose. It’s natural to deny the resurrection. We modern folks like to get to the root of things. And at the root of all things biological is that life will end in death. That's all there is, folks. There ain't no more.
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Posted on April 21, 2011, 9:46 am
Topics: Advocacy
In Shaio Chong's latest blog entry, he reflects on Nancy Eiesland's remarkable insight regarding Jesus' resurrected body: "In presenting his impaired hands and feet to his startled friends, the resurrected Jesus is revealed as the disabled God."
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Posted on January 18, 2011, 3:49 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Worship Planning
We hear a lot about wicked and dangerous stuff on the internet. But God is the Lord of all technology, including the internet, which can be used for much good. I'm going to invite you to check a four-minute video below of an enthusiastic eleven-year old boy powerfully declaiming in a service at Salem Lutheran Church, Tomball, Texas. (If the introductory frame actually introduces the speaker, he is Jack Stockton.) Here young Jack he names all 66 Bible books, mentioning briefly how each book reveals Jesus.
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Posted on January 11, 2011, 9:24 am | 4 comments
Topics: Roles
Have you ever heard someone say that elders are to rule, and deacons are to serve? What in the world do you make of this odd separation of functions in the body of Christ? You may be asking, “What does leadership have to do with my ministry as a deacon? Isn't it the elders and the pastors who lead by ruling?” The more common portrayal of deacons is...
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Posted on November 22, 2010, 4:37 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Deacons
Jesus said, "I am among you as one who serves." The word he uses is the word for deacon. This is the pattern of Jesus' ministry. The attitude is as important as the behavior.
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Posted on March 8, 2010, 1:40 pm
Topics: Youth
I grew up camping with my family in the very same location every year, “Costa Lotta,” a campsite on Vancouver Island, just north of Qualicum. An integral part of this annual camping trip, were the storms that would rage up the Strait of Georgia (the body of water between Vancouver Island and the Mainland of BC), every year this storm would come...
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Posted on January 27, 2010, 2:06 pm
Topics: Youth Group Nights
MOST (Czech for the Bridge) is a beautiful Oscar nominated movie and winner of many prestigious film festivals. It tells the story of the close relationship between a bridge operator (Vladimir Javorsky) and his young son (Lada Ondrej) and the fateful day when both try to head off an impending rail disaster. Check out this bible study on the movie.
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