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Top Five Tuesday — My Top Five Rules For A Good Football Helmet Design And What It Tells Us About Church
September 25, 2012 2

This past Saturday I watched a bit of the game between South Carolina and new-SEC-member Missouri. Along with new conference membership, Missouri has a new helmet design.  And it is just plain awful. My first thought was “what in the world is THAT on the helmet?”  It took me about ten minutes of close study Read the full article…

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Clubhouse, BigHouse, Our House
September 24, 2012 0

Last night our new Clubhouse ministry got off to a roaring start. Fifty-three fourth and fifth graders plus nine volunteers equaled eighteen pre-teens making professions of faith in Christ for the first time. Along the way, they shared dinner together, heard from Ryan Gordon our Director of Children’s Ministry, broke into small discussion groups, and Read the full article…

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Lowlife Week Three — Keeping It On The DownLOW
September 21, 2012 1

I’m eager to give this, my first message in the Lowlife series. It’s called Keeping It On The DownLOW, it comes from Philippians 2:1-11, and I think you’ll learn something new in it.  I know I did in preparing it. What is unique about Lowlife is the fact that we have created weekly serving opportunities Read the full article…

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Of Maps And Men
September 20, 2012 6

Julie and I had a recent conversation about her time as a high school sophomore in Southbury, Connecticut. But I realized during our talk that I had no concept of where within Connecticut you could actually find Southbury. (Even worse, I realized I couldn’t place the town of Bristol in Connecticut, and if you love Read the full article…

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What’s The Purpose Of A Song?
September 19, 2012 0

In preparation for the December 2, 2012 launch of our fourth worship gathering — this one all in Spanish — Sammy Gonzalez and I visited another Latino service in our area. We wanted to see what this particular Spanish-speaking congregation does well, where it could be improved, and how they meet the needs of our Latino Read the full article…

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