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by Pastor Curt on April 26, 2012
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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 [...]
by Pastor Curt on February 28, 2012
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culture, Evangelism, gospel, mission, New Building, outreach, pluralism, risk
I suspect there are more than one. This post concerns the prospect of danger in church growth given the fact that we will double our space at 872 Maitland Ave. We will have a lot more room for a lot more people. That alone, coupled with finally gaining a physical presence within our community, along [...]
by Pastor Curt on November 7, 2011
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church, Evangelism, Great Commission, mission, witness
Yesterday’s message from Luke 19:1-10 is now on the website. You can listen to the audio here. Here’s how I wrapped things up: Grasping Jesus’ rescue mission to even this world’s lost of the lost summons us to embrace that same mission as our own – grasping the interest He drew, the initiative He took, [...]
by Pastor Curt on September 28, 2011
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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.
by Pastor Curt on August 17, 2011
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Evangelism, gospel, Missions, promises of God
These don’t look so hot to me today. But they dazzled with beauty on Friday, August 5, in the village of Mrima, Kenya. I mean with an Isaiah 52:7 kind of beauty. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, [...]
by Pastor Curt on May 2, 2011
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Evangelism, grace, light, Missions, Osama bin Laden, the gospel
As one might expect, the blogosphere is alive and well about someone who isn’t. I refer, of course, to the death of Osama bin Laden. The flurry of activity on this score, some of it excellent (see Justin Taylor for example), gave me pause about piling on to the discussion. Obviously, I gave in. Blame [...]
by Pastor Curt on March 27, 2011
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belief, deity of Christ, discipleship, Evangelism, faith, salvation, seeking Jesus
Today’s message from John 12:20-26 is now on the website. You can listen to the audio here. My synopsis of the text was as follows: The Spirit of God working through John wants us to go with the Greeks. He would have us express the same desire – we would see Jesus. He means for [...]
by Patty Morman on March 21, 2011
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Evangelism, sovereignty of God, witnessing
My mom was on an airplane flight recently. A young man sat next to her and after they made some small talk, she remarked about the beautiful sunset outside the plane window. “If that is so beautiful on this wicked earth, what must heaven be like!” she said. “I hope I go there,” he replied. [...]
by Pastor Curt on February 19, 2011
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apologetics, defending the faith, Evangelism, listening, objections
Tomorrow, Lord willing, we begin our follow up to the Two Ways To Live evangelism training during our 9:30 equipping hour for adults and highschoolers with another combination video/discussion curriculum called So Many Questions. You needn’t have participated in the last seven weeks of training in order to take advantage of and profit by this [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 27, 2010
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equipping, Evangelism, gospel, witnessing
If the way you share your faith at this point looks something like this (or worse you don’t share Christ with others at all): But you would like the way you share your faith to look something like this: Then make plans to join us for our new 9:30 equipping hour emphasis, Two Ways to [...]
