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what Paul says about church fights

14Apr09

Read Romans 14.
This is proof that there will always be, and always has been, differences of opinion in the church concerning what’s right and wrong.
Make no mistake, there are many things the Bible says is wrong. I’m not talking about those issues. I’m not talking about things like murder, theft, adultery, or homosexuality.
I’m talking about differences of [...]


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mmmmmore

25Mar09

More. I want more. A higher status. A better reputation. More significance. More respect. More authority. More recognition. More money.
History tells us that when we don’t get what we want, we will fight to get it.
When we hear “no”, we don’t back down. The opposite happens. We gear up and fight.
In the church world, this [...]


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Proclaiming

17Feb09

I was having a conversation last week with a ministry friend. We were chatting about how gatherings of people could become more interactive. Our generation, and the ones to follow, or quickly growing up with interaction. American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother, Face Book, and Twitter are highly interactive.
Yet the church seems to still be 1 guy on the stage verses [...]


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Trans Siberian For Jesus

07Dec08

Who said churches don’t have good musicians?
Source here.


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The validity of the Bible?

04Nov08

If man wrote the Bible, than how is it accurately labeled “The Word of God”?
I love questions like this. My friend Gary sent me this, and it’s probably one of the best things I’ve read in a few weeks.
Many people struggle with the idea that man wrote the Bible, I don’t know why, because, after [...]


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Corporate Part 2

28Aug08

(If you haven’t read part 1, read it here.)
Someone once said, “For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.” 
Some people just don’t like organized religion and some don’t like bodies of people. Some don’t like church. I must confess I don’t like church either; if by church you mean a [...]


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Corporate Part 1

27Aug08

I hate church vocabulary. As I’ve grown up on the pew, I’ve become familiar with the niche lingo, words, and phrases that you’ll only hear inside the church or by churchy people. Then you here common phrases that are well known outside of church, but used inside. For example: “let’s corporately pray together” or “lets have another corporate meeting.” [...]


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Generations.

18May08

Today I taught a message I’ve been actively working on for 15 months. The best part of the service was when a grandmother came up to me.
She had waited patiently until after I was done answering some questions after service. I can only describe her as glowing.
She expressed how the Lord used me, and just went [...]


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Church and Cash

04May08

You’d have to be in a coma to not see the tension between churches and money. Granted, we (as the whole Body of Christ) have had it coming to us because of historical stupidity and greed. The problem is Jesus talked more about money than anything.
When we started Gateway, one of our highest priorities was [...]


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Worship & Life

30Apr08

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” – Romans 12:1

This idea of worshiping from the very being of who we are is so counter American. Are we really supposed to be “living sacrifices”. You mean, worship [...]


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