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MLK, Jr.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today, is the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Two scholars have already said it more elequantly than I could say it, so here are their links Ken Schenck – Professor at Indiana Wesleyan University Scot McKnight The following video is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech, which was given on [...]

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Sunday Night Thoughts

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today was just a sweet overall day. Outside, we are having some of our coldest weather to date, although nothing like the weather in Wisconsin (Lucky for my friend Mark, he’s even further south than I am at this moment. After a week of southern weather, he gets to go back to Wisconsin.) Several people [...]

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Worship Boxscore

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Second Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 20, 2008 WelcomeCall to Worship – Psalm 40Song of Worship – He Brought Me Out (Zelley/Gilmour)InvocationSong of Worship – Above All (LeBlanc/Baloche)Ministry through Music* Worship through PrayerWorship through Giving* Song of Worship – He Keeps Me Singing (Bridgers)Scripture Reading John 1:29-42; I Corinthians 1:1-9Worship through God’s Word – Tell the StorySong [...]

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Weekly Lectionary Readings

Posted in Epiphany, Lectionary on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Second Sunday after the Epiphany January 20, 2008 Isaiah 49:1-7Psalm 40:1-11I Corinthians 1:1-9John 1:29-42 The season of Epiphany at least in my mind has alot to do with the mission of Jesus. We are looking at the three things the church must do in 2008. On Sunday we will look in depth at number 1 [...]

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Tell The Story

Posted in Epiphany, Evangelism on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week we took a look at three things the church must do in 2008. They were: 1) tell the story; 2) invited others; 3) bless the world. What I want to do over the next three weeks is to take a look at each one of these individually. Today we want to take a [...]

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My Thoughts on "Sweet Singer of Methodism"

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

First of all, I want to thank Larry Smith for an excellent article (editorial) on Charles Wesley and the state of music in the church today. Like I mentioned before, I think he hit the nail on the head and you can see that I agreed with what he wrote, because it was a balanced [...]

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Sweet Singer of Methodism

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Reprinted with permission of Larry Smith, editor of God’s Revivalist — November 2007 — a publication of God’s Bible School. I’ll highlight what I liked in bold. With this edition, God’s Revivalist joins the worldwide celebration of Charles Wesley’s tercentenary. For on December 18, 1707—three hundred years ago—the greatest hymn writer in our language came [...]

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Our "Wesleyan" Family Tree

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the things that I’m well aware of is the diversity that exists within the body of Christ. Last week, Indiana Wesleyan University professor and author wrote an article called “I Like Calvinists.” One of the things that I feel like I beat my head up against the wall here in Martinsville is that [...]

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A Surprise Discovery

Posted in Blogging on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Since I have a rather small readership, I check about once a day, where my readers are coming from. Many of my readers come from google searches. During December, most of the searches focused on Christmas worship resources (responsive readings, lectionary readings, hanging of the greens), family nativity scenes, and the new baptist hymnal. Today, [...]

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Snow! Real Snow!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now I know this is not exciting to you from the northland, but we got our first real snow, even though it was less than an inch, this year. This is a first for us, in that the snow fell and was not gone by noon. We call snow, manna because it is usually gone [...]

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