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art, community, Craft, Fair, growth, Seeds
How’d it go? How were your sales? Did you talk to anyone interesting? Should we do it again? How do we measure success? How should we determine if all our efforts were worth it? How do I answer the above questions? I propose that it’s not by how much money I made in sales or [...]
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community, encouragement, mission
Living lives of encouragement every day.
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community, connecting, isolation, loneliness, perseverance, retreat
That’s what Stu Weber in his book The Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart (Multnomah, 1997, 286 pages) calls isolation. He writes: The tendency toward rock-ribbed, self-sufficient isolation is a killing disease among men. It’s as common as prostate cancer and every bit as destructive to life (p. 225). Overstatement? I’m not sure. More than [...]
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church, community, gospel, ministry, service, spiritual growth
What better time to consider this concept than having opened a new building? As we all attempt to carve out our particular spots in the auditorium, perhaps we could take a g0spel-shaped tack in determining our seats from week to week. How so? Here’s a thought. Pray about where you sit. This is called the [...]
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community, human trafficking, mercy, outreach, prayer, slavery, video
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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church of the week, community, gospel, humility, interview, ministry, radio, WTLN
For one of their recent Church-of-the-Week programs, WTLN, 950 AM, Orlando, chose to feature, as they have done in the past, Orlando Grace. They aired a message from The Graces of Gospel-Shaped Community series called The Grace of Clothing with Humility from 1 Peter 4:19-5:7. You can listen to the audio of that message here. [...]
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apostasy, community, exhortation, gospel, persecuted church, sin
Yesterday’s message in Hebrews 3:1-14 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. As promised, here are my bullet points on the qualities of the godly exhorter and exhorted: Seven Qualities of a Godly Exhorter First, gripped by biblical necessity. Prov. 27:5 – Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Proverbs [...]
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community, followership, gospel, humility, leadership, submission
Today’s message from 1 Peter 4:19-5:7 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. John Calvin said this of the proverbial expression, God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble: We are to imagine that; God has two hands; the one, which like a hammer beats down and breaks [...]
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community, Evangelism, groups
Check out this version of small group ministry that engages those outside the church. Soma Communities – Tacoma, WA from Verge Network on Vimeo.
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community, encouragement, flattery, grace
When I preached on Hebrews 10:24-25 a few weeks ago, I made reference to a definition of encouragement I read by Kevin DeYoung in September’s edition of Tabletalk. I stumbled across the same content in a post on his blog and decided to pass it along on our blog. To whet your appetite, I give [...]
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