The Empty Spaces of Our Lives

by Greg Willson on May 7, 2012
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We all tend to orient our lives around removing “empty” spaces, where God is asking us to seek Him in them.

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Do We Dare Look Back?

by Matt West on May 4, 2012
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We are awaiting a beginning. Is that so abnormal? We see something that is about to happen, see God in it, and want to press the fast forward button. While I am the last person in the world who would ever purport to be able to teach patience, I am a believer that everything happens [...]

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Man-O-Manhole Cover!

by Pastor Curt on May 3, 2012
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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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Why Now Was the Time to Build

by Pastor Curt on May 1, 2012
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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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All Is Precious

by Pastor Curt on April 29, 2012
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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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Tough Providence

by Matt West on April 27, 2012
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Being a theological sort of person, I like to talk with others about this thing I call, “Tough Providence.” For those of you less inclined to talk about such things, it is our way of recognizing God is in control of everything that happens and yet saying that we would not have chosen the same [...]

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An Opportunity We Simply Must Buy Up

by Pastor Curt on April 26, 2012
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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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What Kind of Reader Are You?

by Pastor Curt on April 24, 2012
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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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Indifference is Not an Option

by sara_graham on April 21, 2012
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27 million people are enslaved today – more than any other time in history. Why does this concern us? Listen to the stories below from some of those survivors. Victims are just like you and me. They needed a job. They needed to care for their kids. What would you do to protect your children [...]

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Worried in a Wanton World

by Matt West on April 20, 2012
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Every man’s life is impacted by a wide variety of things. Some of those things that impact us are things of which we are absolutely aware right away. On the other hand, there are things that God works together, through His Sovereignty, that have a huge impact on our life and yet, we are largely [...]

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