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Archive for April, 2007

Sunday Night Thoughts

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today was one of those fulfilling days in the ministry. It started out a little sluggish. In a very rare move, I didn’t roll out of bed until 8 AM. Usually, I am at the church by that time, but it was dark and gloomy and the bed was so nice and I was sleeping [...]

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Alpha and Omega

Posted in Easter, Heaven, hymns, Revelation, worship on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

For the past seven weeks we have been preparing ourselves for the Easter celebration that we had last week. Last week, we looked at the importance of the resurrection. For the weeks that are between Easter and Pentecost, we want to take a look at the book of Revelation. This is a series that I [...]

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Second Sunday of Easter

Posted in Lectionary, tagged , on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the readings for this coming Sunday. Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 118:14-29; Psalm 150; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31 Over the next few Sundays, we will be looking at the Revelation passages. We are going to be look at the “Hymns of Heaven.” Tomorrow’s passage declares, “to the One who is, who always was, and who [...]

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A Little Fun

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Many years ago, in the dinosaur ages of Christian Rock, the band, Servant wrote the song “Jungle Music.” It was a song defending the use of “Christian Rock.” The song finishes with a dialog which worked in most of the current, at the time, Christian artists and the titles of some of their albums. In [...]

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Becoming Missional: Missional – When a Missional Church Gathers

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Becoming Missional: Missional – When a Missional Church Gathers This is a great article on what it means to be missional. These thoughts have been rattling around in my head of late. As I read Jerry’s words, I really felt that missional is really where the church needs to be. My good friend Mark at [...]

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"New" Music?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Matt Redman wrote an article in Worship Leader Magazine about a year ago. I ran across this quote recently. “I recently came across the commend of an American pastor objectin to new trends in worship music:‘There are several reasons for opposing it. One, it’s too new. Two, it’s often worldy….The new Christian music is not [...]

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Down to the Core

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been working at getting over the post-partum Easter blues. In the process of preparing for Holy Week and Easter, I spent quite a bit of energy and have finally recovered. Over the past few days I have been reading here and there. In the information age, there is alot being written and I realize [...]

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A Little Writer’s Block

Posted in Blogging, tagged , on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week was a busy week on this blog, so at the moment I’m having difficulty coming up with anything. In addition, the usual Monday Night Bowling League has run it’s course for the year. We didn’t win any awards, but I think we knew that going in. Like I’ve said in the past, I [...]

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Sunday Recap

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today was a great day. We had two Resurrection Day celebrations. The first began at 7:00 AM as several churches gathered for a community sunrise service. I had the opportunity to preach the message at that service. We followed that up by breakfast and on a cold morning (it was 21 degrees when we left [...]

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What If?

Posted in Easter, resurrection on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the leading priests what had happened. A meeting with the elders was called, and they decided to give the soldiers a large bribe. They told the soldiers, “You must say, ‘Jesus’ disciples came during the night while we [...]

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