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Monday Night Bowling

Posted in Monday Night Bowling on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We started tonight all by ourselves in 13th place and we were bowling one of the better teams, so it didn’t look good for us.  The short story is we won 4 of 7 points tonight, which is respectable and almost gained a 5th point.  We all bowled well tonight.  Tonight, I rolled a 417 [...]

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Music Monday

Posted in worship on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Sunday Night Thoughts

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

Today was a good day of ministry — which followed a great weekend gathering of our district’s pastors and spouses.  I guess you could say I’m enjoying the quiet tonight, being by myself and just basking in the days events.  The highlight of the day was getting a call from Rebecca.  She was excited about [...]

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Worship Recap

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

September 21, 2008 19th Sunday after Pentecost Welcome Call to Worship – Psalm 145 Songs of Worship – Let’s Just Praise the Lord (Gaither); We Will Glorify (Paris); Give Thanks (Smith) Invocation Song of Worship—O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Wesley/Glaser) Worship through Prayer Worship through Giving Song of Worship—O How I Love Jesus [...]

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Joyful in All Things

Posted in Sermons on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

[audio] How many can say that they are joyful this morning? Now many of you are thinking, “I’m not happy.” I didn’t ask you if you were happy, I asked if you were joyful and there is a difference. Being joyful and being happy are two different things. As we take a look at this [...]

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Weekly Lectionary Reading

Posted in Lectionary on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Proper 20 (25) September 21, 2008 Exodus 16:2-15; Psalm 145:1-8; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16 As I related in the last post, we have been on retreat for the last few days, so I didn’t get around to this this week.  However, my sermon will be from the Philippians passage verses 12-30.  I’ll be posting that [...]

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Coming Back Down the Mountain

Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This afternoon we arrived back in Martinsville.  If you are a regular reader, you may have thought Pam and I dropped off the face of the earth.  We were at our annual Minister and Spouses Gathering of the Shenendoah District.  It was held in beautiful Staunton, VA at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel.  Staunton, VA is [...]

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Mosaic Update

Posted in Mosaic Student Ministries on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What a crazy day today was.  It seemed like it just wouldn’t quit.  I had a full day with Salvation Army today.  We received lots of nice donations today.  Toward the end of the work day, I ended up at the Worship Center/Office and got talking to one of the captains.  It was a great [...]

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Insanity

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

Sometime I feel sad for people who do the same thing, the same way and expect a different result.  They are afraid of change because it is uncertain and it involves risk.  This even affects Christians. If only they could have faith that God could do awesome things with their lives.  I admire people who [...]

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The Holiness Movement and Social Action

Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Indiana Wesleyan University professor Keith Drury writes Tuesday Column — thought provoking commentary from a Wesleyan perspective.  In this article – The Holiness Movement’s Heritage of Social Action he makes the point that many times younger holiness people look back to John Wesley for our heritage of “social holiness.”  Drury outlines some of the key [...]

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