Category: community

• Taking a Deeper Look at Black Lives Matter and Social Justice

  

  He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 (ESV) Oftentimes, Christians see issues of their days and times and superimpose them into the biblical prophecy of the Last Days […]

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  July 10, 2020

• Engaging Others in Every Effort

  Every opportunity that we get to speak to or serve others is an opportunity to heighten and extend our reach to others.  Such opportunities equal open season for us to act as extensions of God’s grace and love, even His forgiveness and mercy.  We could serve as instruments in the Master’s hands.  We could simply […]

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  August 15, 2013

• Talk of the Town

  Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything  like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation. – Joel 1:2-3 When things happen- whether they be good […]

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  June 2, 2013

• Christians are like Comic Book Heroes

    If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. – John 15:18 (NLT) Think about the Avengers or X-Men.  Those guys were bitten by spiders, struck by gamma rays or born mutated, only to emerge with super powers that spanned the full range of strangeness.  As much as we may love Professor Xavier, […]

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  July 22, 2012

• Make Contact to Make Connections

  . . . I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.  I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. – 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 (NIV) “Let us long to be used in the conversion of sinners.” – Charles […]

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  June 21, 2012

• Living by Saintly Standards

  According to 2008 U.S. statistical data from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), 34,169 people claimed “no religion.” That includes atheists and humanists.  That is almost 5,000 more people than in 2001.  In 2008, according to the same survey, over 173,000 people identified themselves as “Christian.” That’s over 13,000 more than in 2001. Obviously, Christianity […]

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  June 8, 2012

• 5 Things Christians can Learn from the 2012 Political Race

  “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” –Plato Read Plato’s Republic or Walden by Henry David Thoreau and you can get a worldly view on politics and its citizenry.  That may not go well with the Bible.  In fact, it may not match at […]

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  April 4, 2012

• Let Your Faith Be Seen

  “Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”– Mahalia Jackson Faith is expected to be on display.  In one way or another, believers are expected to somehow show that they truly believe what they profess and proclaim.  We are supposed to walk and live by faith. One […]

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  March 9, 2012

• Online Communities for Christians

  Let brotherly love continue. – Hebrews 13:1 (KJV) This walk of faith can seem lonely.  We can get to the point where it feels like no one is on our level.  We can feel as if we have grown into isolation. That just should not be so.  Sadly, it is a real truth for many […]

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  February 25, 2012

• Multigenerational Ministry

   But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.   -Titus 2:1 (ESV) There is nothing that comes naturally to us in this new life.  Our rebirth as children of God leads us to enter into a new life with a blank slate.  We are to put off the old man who has lived within […]

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  February 22, 2012