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Listen Up, listening, sermons, spiritual growth
Available this Sunday for a mere buck at the resource table will be Christopher Ash’s little book Listen Up! A Practical Guide to Listening to Sermons (2009, The Good Book Company, 30 pages). Here’s how the publisher describes the resource: Christopher Ash outlines seven ingredients for healthy listening. He then deals with how to respond [...]
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conferences, Missions, Pioneers
Pioneers will do it again. In the years between Urbana conferences, they host their own mission’s conference right here in Orlando. I went to Story ’08 and found it well worth while. Here is the description of the conference from their VP: Story’10 is a missions conference from Pioneers which invites you to be a [...]
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adoption, concerts, conferences
A few weeks ago David Wooten of Embraced By Grace ministries joined us to tell us about this event in Lake Mary on Nov. 5 & 6 at the Westin Lake Mary that will focus on adoption from two directions – vertical in terms of our relationship with God and horizontal in terms of the [...]
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Events, influence, men's ministry, retreat
Guys! Have you marked your calendars yet? Be sure to set aside Friday and Saturday, November 19 and 20, for our annual men’s retreat at Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center in Leesburg, FL. We will be joining with our brothers at Faith Baptist Church for an exciting time in fellowship and in God’s Word. This [...]
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brotherly love, consecration, sanctification, small groups, the gospel
Today’s sermon from Romans 12:1-13 is now on the web. You can listen to it here. Here’s how I summarized and applied the text: A life lived in the grip of the gospel bears the stamp of God’s glory on every aspect of that life. With respect to God, decisive commitment. With respect to self, [...]
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birthday, happiness, health, holiness
How did September 15 come around so fast again? I turned 58 today. Ever since my battle with cancer in 2005, I have marked each birthday with a little phrase or ditty to commemorate God’s mercy to me in giving length of days. 53 and cancer free 54 and ready for more 55 and staying [...]
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abiding, church, communion with God, goals, productivity, roles
Today our weekly morning prayer group finally resumed our discussion over breakfast of C. J. Mahaney’s helpful article on biblical productivity. We’ve covered thus far in our reading some of the challenges of busyness masquerading as productivity and procrastination, to some guidance and help in how to ensure real productivity in our lives, to lately [...]
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Anchored Youth, Beauty, femininity, Glamor, Women
You can’t escape from it. We are constantly bombarded with others’ ideas of it. We are told how we need to change and how such changes will make us infinitely happier. Beauty. Ideas of what is beautiful and glamorous are found in magazines, on television, movies, billboards, websites, on and on ad nauseum. The cultural [...]
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brotherly love, conflict resolution, courts, lawsuits, peacemaking
Today’s message from 1 Cor. 6:1-8 is now on the web. You can listen to it here. I summarized the passage and closed with applications this way: Believers must reject the ridiculous and audacious folly of resolving their disputes in secular courts of law – given the special destiny of judging for believers (the world [...]
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conciliation, conflict, disputes, peace, peacemaking
This Sunday marks the 8th anniversary of a landmark weekend in the history of OGC. Following a devastating conflict amongst our leadership in the summer of ’02, everyone involved in that struggle met for a weekend retreat with two trained mediators from Peacemaker Ministries for a conciliation retreat. God gave me the privilege of participating [...]
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