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It is an amazing thing when God palpable presence shows up among a people. Today we’ll explore what it is to cultivate such presence. That is, not to coerce or to… manipulate, but to grow in awareness of God’s always among presence. This is the mission of the church, not to live “in futility” (Eph 4:17), or meaninglessness but to live with purpose and mission, to cultivate God’s presence among us. Think with us this morning what it means to participate in God at work in the world.
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We continue to explore and weave together a little book by David Fitch; What Is The Church and Why Does It Matter? with the lectionary readings out of Ephesians – they have paired well, and here are couple of thoughts from the New Beacon Bible Commentary on Ephesians… “a colony of heaven… a community of…
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Join us on the first day of August as we dive into the meaning of the eternal church, through the book of Acts.
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Welcome Church! Join us this morning as Mark Marble brings the message to us today.
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Last week I talked about how culture “does things for the money,” and I made an effort to shift that thinking to “doing” for goodness sake — that there is a shift in motivation when we do something for the sake of contributing good to the community vice simply doing for the cash. So this…
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This morning we will continue to think about “what is the church,” by way of Fred and Sheryl Tedder who are church planters/missionaries/Pastors in Sandton, South Africa. Join us this morning as we hear from them and the work of the church across the world.
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This morning we are looking at 2 Corinthians 5 and how Paul is interacting with the church in Corinth, inspiring maturity of their own responses to the tensions they face. Today as we dig in, I want to spring off the Psalm (84) and the picture of Oasis that it paints. So explore with us…
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Today is Trinity Sunday, or the first Sunday of ordinary time where we’ll explore the extent of what this story that we’ve been in from Advent means to us. The church calendar starts before Christmas in Advent and brings us through Easter and Pentecost, and today we ask, now what? Now what do we do…
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Today is Pentecost Sunday, the “birthday” of the church, that is the 50th day after resurrection mimicking the 50 days after Passover when Moses received the Law and Mount Sinai. Today I invite you to think with me about the implication of God’s Spirit descending on a people on such a timeline. And to think…
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