17 Dec

Posted at 17:39h in Culture
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I grieve and weep over the senseless acts of murder committed last week in Newtown, CT.  For the next few days, weeks and months we are going to spend a good deal of time trying to figure out how to prevent such acts from ever...

19 Nov

Posted at 18:58h in Church Life, Culture
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Apparently, this CCN journalist thinks its time we Evangelical Christians rethink our message. The reason why?  Obama was re-elected. (By the way: What is it with the Press and this President?  I have never seen journalism this devoted to actually not being journalists in my...

08 Nov

Posted at 17:37h in Personal
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Christians, take note.  The Moral Majority is dead. Whatever your thoughts on the re-election of President Obama and others can be debated as to what is proper for our Country in the midst of an economic tailspin.  I’ll remind you the economy was growing at...

30 Oct

Posted at 19:32h in Church Life
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God loves to use average people.  If He were a coach, He wouldn’t rely on the team’s superstar to get the job done.  A record of historical scriptures displays ordinary nobodies God specifically went after.  People you and I would never chose. David was left...

10 Oct

Posted at 17:01h in Culture
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Youtube has changed how we see the world. You can find a clip of almost anything.  Disasters, concerts, the occasional fly-off-the-handle moment of a celebrity, a humorous gaff from life TV, singing cats and chimpanzees doing the macarena. But what happens when all we think...

02 Oct

Posted at 01:16h in God, Church Life
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How do I keep from sinning? Simple.  Stop thinking about it. Let me explain from scripture and then from examples: James 1:14–15 (ESV) But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives...

25 Sep

Posted at 14:31h in Church Life
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1 John 2:4 (ESV) Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him… Can you claim to be a Christian and still willfully engage in sin?  NO! I see many people in the church...

13 Sep

Posted at 14:49h in Church Life, Culture
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Can a person be “Too Christian?” Is it possible? Yes, I believe so.  I have some signs that some who attend church regularly are too Christian and not enough Christ-like: 1. They don’t serve anyone in the church. For some Christianity is only creeds with hardly...

05 Sep

Posted at 15:14h in Uncategorized
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Sometimes having three different services is hard.  You say one thing to one service and forget the other two.  Or you say it to two services and forget the one. Well, this weekend, I forgot to ask our Saturday night people to use the Thank...