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Sunday Night Thoughts

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A good solid day of ministry today.  I preached from Matthew 16 and Romans 12 on what it means to deny ourselves and to carry our cross.  Check out either message (audio or text) below.  We took some time during our worship to promote our students who are stepping up to the next class.  After [...]

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Worship Recap

Posted in Worship Recap on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

August 31, 2008 Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Welcome Call to Worship-Psalm 26:1-8 Songs of Worship-He Is Exalted (Paris); All Hail King Jesus (Moody); Majesty (Hayford) Invocation Song of Worship—To God Be the Glory(Crosby/Doane) Student Recognition Worship through Prayer Worship through Giving Worship through God’s Word – Take Up Your Cross [Audio] Benediction

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Take Up Your Cross

Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

[Audio] Today, we continue to take a look at the miracles and teachings of Jesus. This morning’s passage comes from scripture that we alluded to last week. As a reminder to those who were here and to bring up to speed those who were not, we looked at Peter. Peter was one of Jesus’ disciples [...]

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Weekly Lectionary Reading

Posted in Lectionary on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Proper 17 (22) August 31, 2008 Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 26:1-8; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28 I’ve been looking at these passages most of the week.  It looks like I’ll be using the Matthew passage in conjunction with the Romans passage.  Last week I alluded to the passage in Matthew as we looked at how God used [...]

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Wednesday Night Mosaic Update

Posted in Mosaic Student Ministries on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One word.  RAIN!!!!!  It has been raining on the Southside now for almost 36 hours.  Not that it’s a bad thing.  We are in bad need of some rain around here.  The ground has been quite dry, but now the ground is saturated.  I almost got the van stuck several times.  We had 10 students [...]

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Five Reassuring Features of the Wesleyan Church

Posted in Wesleyan Church on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We still preach holiness. We have never stopped preaching the message of holiness living, however, in most cases we have left behind legalism. To many of the younger generation like me, holiness is defined more by the work done inside of us than by our outward appearance. This is not to say that someone who [...]

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Five Surprising Features of the Wesleyan Church

Posted in Wesleyan Church on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

[Ed. – This is the first part of a paper that Pam recently wrote for her class, Wesleyan Church History and Discipline. The first part will discuss five surprising features of The Wesleyan Church. The second part (which will publish tomorrow) will discuss the five most reassuring things about The Wesleyan Church.     The purpose of [...]

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Music Monday

Posted in worship, tagged on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a video that Rebecca took Tuesday morning while at FLAME X.  It is Matt and Beth Redman’s Blessed Be Your Name.

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Sunday Night Thoughts

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This week got us back to our “normal” routine.  Last Sunday night Rebecca returned to college and Wednesday James and Anna returned to school.  As I’ve mentioned before, this is the first time in 17 years that we haven’t had a child in elementary school, so that is taking some getting used to.  Anna and [...]

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Worship Recap

Posted in Worship Recap on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

August 24, 2008 15th Sunday after Pentecost Welcome Call to Worship-Psalm 124 Songs of Worship-Open The Eyes of My Heart (Baloche); Here I Am to Worship (Hughes) Invocation Song of Worship—Faith Is the Victory (Yates/Sankey) Worship through Prayer Worship through Giving Ministry through Music Song of Worship—There Is Power In the Blood (Jones) Worship through [...]

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