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Blessed Assurance
There are many hurt people out there. The unfortunate thing is that some have been hurt by people that name the name of Christ, and this has the effect of turning people away not only from the people that have hurt them, but from God Himself and His Church. Many of these people struggle to [...]
A Free Garage Sale
Bible Baptist Church in Bonner Springs, Kansas, has an idea that I think my church should try—it’s a free garage sale: Members of the Bible Baptist Church of Bonner Springs, 426 Emerson Ave., began the program they call “Neighbor Helping Neighbor” last year. They collected donations over several months and then opened their doors to [...]
Cardboard Testimonies
Who were you before you came to the Lord—this video is powerful: Check out this powerful video.
What Can Kids Get Out of Church?
A lot, if you’ll let them… As Josh found out: Anyway, as part of the new schedule of things on Saturday nights, we started using the same curriculum for the elementary kids in both hours. By doing this, we are encouraging parents who are there for both services to take their elementary child with them [...]
10 Stupid Things That Keep Churches From Growing
As someone that is involved in the leadership of a local church, I find that I often have to think about what we’re doing as a church—why is it that some that come in the door never return, or why is it that some people leave in the first place. That’s one of the reasons [...]
The Power of Children
I don’t know that there’s a day that goes by that, when someone finds out that I have four children, there is not some comment made about my family’s size and whether or not the person that I’m having the conversation with could do it either. In fact, in Western Europe and growing in the [...]
Christianity and the World
The old saying goes that the church is only 10 years behind the world morally/culturally. That was part of last night’s message looking into “respectable sins”—those sins that Christians commit that are ranked as “not bad” because “everyone does them.” This is a charge that I’ve heard before, and I have to say that I [...]
The Jesus Tree Ornaments
Author Gary Kennedy has penned a Christmas story about a man who is struggling with a difficult situation and his faith. The Jesus Tree Ornaments is a book that sees his main character working through different Bible stories while confronting the possible loss of his son. Mixed into this story is an attempt to link [...]
Where Are All The Men?
A great discussion has erupted over on Is This Modest. It started out talking about romancing one’s husband, but mutated into a discussion about men and the church. The question that is running around the comments section is “Has the church become so feminized that men don’t care to attend?
Have You Had Enough?
Another holiday season has come, and one thing is certain—we’ve all had a lot to eat. I’m not sure where the tradition came from, but what I am certain is that this is not just the season for presents and good cheer, it’s also the season to make exotic dishes in the hopes that family [...]
Sexual Sin and the Church
She is sleeping with her boyfriend, left the church because they were going to discipline her, should they follow through with the public announcement? That is the situation a church in Florida found itself in this past week as a woman in the church first confessed to a woman in her Bible Study that she [...]
Of Gov. Sarah Palin and Dinosaurs
This is supposed to shock you. Get ready. Brace yourselves. Gov. Sarah Palin believes that humans and dinosaurs coexisted on an earth that’s only about 6,000 years old. Shocking, I know, since thousands of people have visited the Creation Museum. Check out this page on Wikipedia talking about polls on the topic of Creation and [...]
Knowing Who is Serving
It’s a scarier world out there—part because that as the end of time approaches people will become more lawless and part because we hear about it. What I mean by the latter is that, at one point we didn’t hear the news that happened all around us—we were disconnected. Now we can find out with [...]
Not Me
Yesterday was my church’s 50th anniversary, and for that anniversary our pastor invited the first pastor of the church back to offer the message of the morning. That message was in keeping with a series that we just finished up a few weeks ago, in that it brought to focus the understanding that it’s not [...]
God Sized Encounters
One of the things that I’ve mentioned before that’s convicted me is the fact that my life is not that much different from the “good” unsaved person’s life. What I mean is that my outside appearance—apart from the fact that I do not swear—is pretty much the same as what you would expect out of [...]
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