by Pastor Curt on June 17, 2010
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apologetics, conferences, Evangelism, Ligonier
Tough Questions Christians Face. That’s the theme for this year’s Ligonier National Conference beginning today here in Orlando and running through Saturday morning. Here is the promo paragraph from the Ligonier website for the conference: Christ has redeemed us to be a light that directs others to Him. Fulfilling this call requires us to be [...]
by Pastor Curt on June 12, 2010
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Evangelism, Lewis & Clark, purpose
Our place in Idaho lies quite near part of the path taken by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark in their famous 1803-05 journey to find an all-water route across the western two-thirds of the American continent. Living so close to such notable US history prompted me a couple of years ago to pick up and [...]
by Pastor Curt on April 14, 2010
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Evangelism, regeneration, T4G
Day Two at T4G, The (Unadjusted) Gospel. John MacArthur spoke this morning on Mark 4 in a message he called The Theology of Sleep. He surveyed the entire chapter, calling it The Magna Carta of Evangelism by the Lord Jesus Christ, but he landed most of the time in his exposition on the parable (unique [...]
by Pastor Curt on February 23, 2010
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outreach
Our mission as a church stands on record as this: engaging peoples everywhere to pursue ultimate satisfaction in Jesus. One important way we seek to do that is by building bridges into the community through works of service and acts of mercy. After all, Jesus commanded us to do this very kind of thing in [...]
by John Gjertsen on January 28, 2010
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Four years ago, Abby and I made a decision that seemed courageous at the time, but in hindsight seems very easy. We opened up our home for three weeks to Motoi Tanaka, a student on the Mission to Japan Homestay program. Motoi’s English was not wonderful (though it improved dramatically over the month), but we [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 29, 2009
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Evangelism, Missions
I know. Doesn’t look like my compadres are doing much hunkering down at this missions conference! Snapped this photo on our way to lunch. Simply gotta have a photo of the arch! We’re deep into day two. Thought you might like an idea of what a day at Urbana is like. We start with inductive [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 28, 2009
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Evangelism, Missions, outreach
We made it! Man, it’s cold in St. Louis. Suddenly I like living in the tropics. Danny, Bethany, Julia, me, Jillian, Carissa, and Ashley all got here our separate ways safe and sound, weather and holiday travel issues notwithstanding. The photo was taken in the exhibition hall at the Pioneers venue. Jillian is doing the recruiting [...]
by John Gjertsen on December 13, 2009
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blogs, community, encouragement, gospel, military
Well, I realize I’m breaking the ice here. Don’t be alarmed. Our church’s blog was intended to have multiple authors. Considering Pastor Curt’s 41 posts so far, it looks like the rest of us are getting lapped! This week I ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant and cracked open my fortune cookie to find: Perhaps [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 3, 2009
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churches, Evangelism
Recently I received an email from one of the elders from this “sister” church of ours in Orlando about their witnessing schedule for December. They have invited any of our folks at OGC who want to join in to do so. Here is the list of opportunities: December 5th – Winter Park Christmas Parade – [...]
by Pastor Curt on November 19, 2009
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kindness, mercy ministry, mission, service, witnessing
Good question. Let me explain. Some folks at lunch today asked me how I was doing. As usual, my response included my assessment of the state of affairs in my church. I told them how excited I was about the rewording of our mission/vision/values verbiage to make things more memorable and catalytic to our fellowship. So [...]
