Christmas on a Sunday? But…?

Once every 7 years or so, Christmas falls on a Sunday. Having gone to church myself every Sunday for far too long, you might think I deserve the day off. What’s it going to hurt if we just shut the doors and skip church for one Sunday anyway? Well, it will hurt Christmas, I tell you! I’m...
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Come to church worshiping

The funny thing about this blog is that i wrote it a couple days ago but because there were a good amount of blogs coming out of the site i didn’t want to add another to the stream, but after multiple talks with people and even hearing a message on this I figured i should probably post it...
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If You Say It You Mean It

This past Sunday Pastor Brandon spoke on James 3, and I have to say it was my favorite message in this series so far. Speaking life is something that I have really been dwelling on recently. When I look back at me as a young kid I can’t help but laugh. I was not a big kid by any means, and so...
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Frustration and blessing of set lists and James

This series in James had been really good. The messages have been spot on and convicting, while also giving great encouragement into being the church and people God has called us to be. I really enjoy it. Many of you have heard Pastor Brandon talk about how he has had to wrestle through these...
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Burning to Give - Value, Choice, & Fear.

We’re terrified of sacrifice - that’s why we don’t give. Petrified. The deer in the proverbial headlights. We don’t give because we’re so afraid of our choices that we look away mumbling, lying to ourselves, and making excuses.

And I don’t mean sacrificing money. I mean everything else. I mean...
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Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My!

Once upon a time, long long ago, I looked into hunting Lions. Tigers. Bears.

Oh my.

Turns out that to do so - in Laos anyways - is punishable by death. They take their tigers quite seriously. There’s just too many people with a desire to hunt them - in the modern way with rifles and so on -...
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Real Life Confessions of a Service Sleeper: “It was all a blur!”

A Blurry Hurry - Confessions of A Week to Forget

Startled abruptly into panic from sleep, with no idea where or when I was, I looked around. A dissembling fear churned me as I assembled myself and, taking note of the little things like the three hundred people in the room with me and the...
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Death In Detail - The Facts of Afterlife

Both guarantee and a question, looming before all of us, implacable and unavoidable, death is rather intrusive in it’s nature. Though nothing could be as natural, as intimately connected with life, it somehow sits outside us. Viewed by men time and again as an entity, an observer or a foe,...
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Mis-spent Emotions…

Mis-spent Emotion…

We get emotional about many things. We get irritated at traffic, angry when things don’t go our way at work, and concerned about money issues. We spend our emotions on many things every day of our lives.
Even the passive people are feeling many things inside of them, though...
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Managing Your Doubt

This Sunday, in the 3rd installment of our Inked series, Pastor Brandon Beals suggested that doubts are a healthy part of our faith experience as long as we face them, instead of hiding them in shame or letting them fester until they become unbelief.

I agree, our doubts must be investigated...
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