Category: community
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]