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I read yet another article today on "How You Can Make Worship More....Something." I forget exactly what the author said, but it amounted to doing better music, preaching better sermons, screening better videos, and so on. Which is really not reinventing worship at all. Frankly, there'
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A life-sized sculpture of Jeremiah Lanphier has been commissioned from Lincoln Fox. This bronze sculpture will be revealed at the 2007 Fulton Street Prayer conference and will be placed in various locations in Lower Manhattan. A GRASSROOTS REVIVAL Take one inexperienced layman, an old dying church, plus a heart for
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Some of the posts that caught my eye this week are -- * Scot McKnight's post on "Breathe" as a lifestyle. Good stuff on regular "breathing" vs. cramming. * A new blog, Greensboro Abbey, by Zach Roberts. Read this explanation of emerging church terminology here. Oh,
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Things in our small town are changing -- some for the better, some not. The town drugstore, Woodfin's Pharmacy, closed earlier this summer. A big drugstore chain bought them out, and moved all the prescriptions two miles out of town to the new store on US 29, a
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Where Faith & Culture Meet -- a DVD-based missional resource "Jesus is already present, working in every human culture." That's how Andy Crouch begins Zondervan's new missional study, Where Faith & Culture Meet. I got hold of a preview copy -- DVD and leader&
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Exterior and interior of our community center. Construction on our community center is moving along. If we were building a church building instead of a community center, I would use the same design criteria we developed. Here's what we wanted in a building: 1. Flexibility. We wanted to
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MTV and the Associated Press recently surveyed the happiness of young people ages 13-24. Guess what they found? Young people who consider spirituality the most important thing in their lives are happier than those who don't. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that only
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The news gets worse everyday -- Mattel is now recalling millions of toys due to lead paint contamination. Toys R Us is reporting that some baby bibs they carry also have lead contamination. I worked with many Chinese factories when I was in business, and I guarantee you this is
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A church about 50-miles away made the local TV news recently because they constructed a $3-million children's indoor amusement center. Kids play video games, shoot arcade basketball, fire laser guns, and climb the rockwall in the indoor playscape. The children's pastor proudly spoke about this state-of-the-art,
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This week ABC News reported that Walmart will begin selling "talking Jesus" action figures, along with other biblical characters like "spirit warriors" David and Goliath. (Since when does Goliath get to be a "spirit warrior?") Like most pre-teen kids, our 10-year old grandson has
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Me enjoying VBS, taking a break from my small job as a helper. This week is Vacation Bible School for our community. Five small churches, like ours, have partnered each year to do what we could not do alone. What's my job this year? I'm a
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If you want a great example of how non-profits and churches, including small churches, can work together, go to Collaborate for a Greater Cleveland. This new blog was created by The City Mission of Cleveland to foster on-line communication with individuals, churches, other non-profits, businesses, and the civic community in