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God's timing, New Building, patience, waiting
That is indeed the question. As for this latest week in the saga of when in the world will OGC get into its new building, the answer is, I am sorry to say it, not to CO. However, we are making progress. Next week may bring an entirely different response. New handrails got installed today. [...]
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bitterness, Journaling, providence, resentment, thanksgiving
On Sunday toward the close of my Mother’s Day message, I inserted an acrostic using the word ABLE to help crystallize four practical application principles for making the journey from a place of resentment in our spiritual lives to one of true blessed contentment. Naomi (means pleasant or sweet) suffered so greatly from a battle with bitterness [...]
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New Building, sovereignty of God, Trust, waiting
I am really looking forward to our church getting one of these from the City of Altamonte at some point in the near future. Our fearless building committee chairman gave me the skinny today about where things stand after almost another full week of trying to dot every “I’” and cross every “T” on our [...]
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compassion, despair, Joy, perspective, providence, suicide, VOM
The letter came today. Voice of the Martyrs (Nancy and I receive their monthly newsletter and give as led to their ministry from time to time), fiercely devoted to serving the persecuted church across the globe since 1967, confirmed what I had already heard via the internet. Executive Director, Tom White, took his own life [...]
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inspections, New Building, patience, self-pity, waiting
Strange way to intro this blog post, yes? It will make sense quite quickly, I’m afraid. Wednesday saw us undergo a number of inspections on our property. We faired pretty well on the inside. We passed some items; others need a little more fixing. But overall things look good for the CO from that vantage [...]
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accountability, hindrance, New Building, opposition, peace, rest
As we anxiously await the granting of a CO from the city so that we may occupy our new building (sorry, no green light as of this writing), it occurred to me this morning why, at least in part, in our twenty year history as a church, now was the time to get this project [...]
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grief, Joy, love, preciousness of Christ, rebuke
Today’s message from John 14:25-31 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Jesus rebukes His own for their failure to enter into His joy of heading back to the Father in glory. They are far to self-absorbed with their own grief to see the bigger picture. He loves them even [...]
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Evangelism, New Building, opportunity, outreach
I just finished hemorrhaging over my latest message earlier today. I decided to study and write with a grand opening of our facility service in mind. I felt led to camp out in 1 Timothy 3:14-16. I entitled the message Why Church?: A Case for Christianity in a Many-Gods Age. I worked from the word pictures Paul [...]
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Books, learning, questions, reading
Hopefully you and I are readers, period. That assumed, it remains to examine one’s approach to reading. Unlike TV or movies, you can’t really go passive in the discipline of reading, especially works of nonfiction. You have to engage. Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren argue in their book How to Read a Book: the [...]
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Books, Lewis, men's ministry, Oxford Club, Practical View, reading, Wilberforce
This Saturday our Oxford Club for Men dives into the introduction and first chapter of A Practical View of Christianity by William Wilberforce. For information on the meeting click here. I confess I am eager to tackle such a challenging manuscript by someone long since gone to his heavenly reward for a variety of reasons, [...]
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