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Anybody doing anything with the SuperBowl this year? The big game is Sunday, February 4, with kickoff about 6:30 PM (I think, but the SB site is not clear). Anyway, we've done a couple of things from in-home fellowships to last year's big 8'
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Believe it or not, VBS planning time is just around the corner and I wanted to share this experience with you. In June, 2004, about 60 kids and leaders attended our community-wide VBS. Four churches in our small town were involved -- Methodist, Baptist (that's us), Presbyterian, and
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(This is a great story I used as introduction to a DMin paper I wrote last year. Hope you enjoy it. -- Chuck) As Europe emerged from the Dark Ages, China was the undisputed master of the eastern world. Chinese culture was centuries ahead of European culture. While the library
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I stumbled across a guy who may be the smartest person in the world. Kevin Kelly -- a founder of Wired magazine, member of thinktanks, techie nerd, futurist guru, and believer -- gets my nomination for Mr. Smartguy of the Universe. And I'm not kidding. His writing is
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I read a blog recently that was pessimistic about the small church. Let me rephrase that -- the blogger said, "There is no hope for the small church." He cited the following reasons: * He had read Good to Great by Jim Collins, and had applied Collins' business
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Sometimes I get a little discouraged when I talk to friends in really big churches (did I tell you that Rick Warren and I went to seminary together? I don't think he remembers me.) Big churches can do some really cool and creative things. A local large-church TV
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Does your church have a sign? Our church sign in Chatham is a slate marker with the church name, date, and pastor's name. The sign complements our Victorian Gothic sanctuary and fits the historic character of our town, but it doesn't do much in the way
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(This post makes less sense now that I have a new header. But, you'll get the idea of the kind of town we live in.) That's our town at the top of this page -- Chatham, Virginia. If you look closely you can see Chatham Books,
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Most of my ministry has been in small churches and I love them! But I grew up in a church with over 500 in worship, so my first small church pastorate was almost a disaster. Out of that experience, I quickly developed some rules for pastoring a small church: Rule