tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42636371702810893502011-12-15T11:08:18.113-06:00WARNING: A Christian, holiness, & biblical worldview.Jared Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052337466711303084noreply@blogger.comBlogger1281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263637170281089350.post-12938245121238653122009-11-10T20:21:00.003-06:002009-11-10T22:21:38.853-06:00

"Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take

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What kind of pastor would allow this kind of irreverance to go on in their church?What kind of people would stand for this... it's nuts!

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At one point this poor preacher asked: "Are you with me?"To which we can quickly, decisively, and thankfully say "No" we are not with him!!May God save the church from such false prophets & teachers as these.

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"The Christianity that attempts to suffer by proxy is not the Christianity of Christ. Each individual Christian business man, citizen, needs to follow in His steps along the path of personal sacrifice to Him. There is not a different path to-day from that of Jesus' own times. It is the same path. The call of this dying century and of the new one soon to be, is a call for a new discipleship, a new

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All the previous posts that include the "post-modern posters" are from this website.

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D.L. Moody on being tolerant, open-minded, and having "conversation" or "dialogue" with "differing views.""A great many people say, you must hear both sides; but if a man should write me a most slanderous letter about my wife, I don’t think I would have to read it; I would tear it up and throw it to the winds. Have I to take up a book that is a slander on my Lord and Master, who has redeemed me

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Here's a story of non-transformation from the book "The Life You’ve Always Wanted" (27-9) by John Ortberg. I don't recommend the book. It is more of book about how you use Jesus to have a wonderful life, but it does have a good story.Do we expect transformation in the lives of believers in our local churches? How long does someone have to come to your local church before we don't expect them to

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"When the apostle cries 'That I may know him,' he uses the word know not in its intellectual but in its experiential sense. We must look for the meaning-- not to the mind but to the heart. Theological knowledge is knowledge about God. While this is indispensable it is not sufficient.... It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man's ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and

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"We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the important thing to be prepared-- the heart. A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon."-Bounds (from Preacher and Prayer)-

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Disclaimer: This video is an extreme example of a mind that has been so twisted that it would be able to prove anything by twisting words in English with words in Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew.This video is a good example of what the Bible describes as a false teacher/prophet.

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"We need a generation of preachers who seek God and seek Him early... Our laziness after God is our crying sin. The children of this world are far wiser than we. They are at it early and late."-Bounds (from Preacher and Prayer)-

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Words are powerful. How you word things can be even more powerful. (Take for example Barack Obama's constantly spewing rhetoric on everything from health care 'reform' to economic 'stimulus.')I find the church today has cloaked biblical language and adopted "user-friendly" language in the name of 'reaching' people in love. We have disguised our love of this present age with a false mask of

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"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."Bounds (from Preacher and Prayer)

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Dr. Nina Gunter is a general superitendent emeritus of the church of the Nazarene. The video of her below is while she was before her retirement at the General Assembly of 2009. She is speaking at the M7 conference.

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This is a General Superitendent emeritus of the Church of the Nazarene speaking at a District assembly in Grove City, Ohio. His words are encouraging to me! Praise the Lord our leadership hasn't surrendered to the disease of re-wrapped liberalism called emergent!

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Check out this link to "60 Awesome Christian Music Album Covers."When will we learn?

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I must admit, this is not wholly original to me. Although it is pretty funny.Fifteen teens every church youth group needs...1. The guy that owns a Jeep. When I was in high school I rotated between hating this guy and desperately wanting to be this guy. I don’t know how he got it but when I was getting dropped off by my mom in a white Pontiac Transport this guy was screaming into the parking lot

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This is probably more true today than the day he first penned these words. From Born After Midnight (pp. 36-37)"The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Erotic Age. Sex love has been elevated into a cult. Eros has more worshipers among civilized men today than any other god. For millions the erotic has completely displaced the spiritual….Now if this god would let us

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Why the emergent church fad will fade & die... (ideas rooted in other stuff I have read as well as my own thoughts)1. They tried to blitz the church. It was a rush job on, not only the fundamental truth of the Gospel (i.e. atonement), but an attack on methodology (which I'm not necessarily defending), style, and even basic identity. Certainly major religious movements and even political ones are

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The new praise team at Mars Mountain Church. Their motto: Everyone is welcome... except barbers.

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For one of their "hip" Sundays, New Life Community Church of Christian Coolness had its entire pastoral staff parachute into the service! (The Sunday before they met their attendance goal so the pastor preached from his 'Sesame Street' pajamas in his 'Elmo voice.')

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Poor guy would have made it to his destination had the radio evangelist not said: "Let us bow for a word of prayer."

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“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he

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You have got to admit... this is funny!

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"No more love to God is there in an unrenewed heart than there is life within a piece of granite. No more love to God is there witin a soul who is unsaved than there is fire within the depths of the ocean’s waves; and herein lies the wonder, that when we had no love to God, He should have loved us."Charles H. Spurgeon

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"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right."Charles Hayden Spurgeon

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... is the title of an interesting article by Alan Keyes. His voice sure is annoying, but he would have my vote for president!

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Who elected this guy spokesman for the Christian church?I honestly have never thoroughly read his book "A Purpose Driven Church" and have not even flipped through "A Purpose Driven Life." However I will need to read the last chapter of each of these books to see if the 'purpose' of life or church involves at some point a waffling around the truth for a political move forward. (It seems as

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I'll be the first to admit that I love Jelly Beans. A trait, I happened to have passed on to my son.But while I could eat Jelly beans all day long, I must admit that I am troubled by the fascination of the church with Easter eggs, Easter Bunnies, and Jelly Beans around the most important celebration of the year: Easter.We dress our kids up like little rabbits, give them an Easter basket full of

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Maybe I should have titled this post: "A new low for the church of Laodicea." (Revelation 3:17) Advertising by "cool" churches has reached an all time low. How can the church continue to deny what it is and who it is about to bring people to the cross of Christ. Things such as this disturb me greatly. I cannot put words to the frustration and discouragement things such as the advertisement below

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"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified."Leonard Ravenhill

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Sometimes we give the enemy more power than he has. (Yeah, I'm referring to the Devil, Satan, Beelzebub or whatever you want to call him. I do believe he exists, but anyway, back to the point...)For example I received an e-mail a few weeks ago about some new legislation trying to be pushed through in California (they're going bankrupt due to excessive spending and are trying to take everything

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"An almost Christian, if we consider him in respect to his duty to God, is one that halts between two opinions; that wavers between Christ and the world; that would reconcile God and Mammon, light and darkness, Christ and Belial. It is true, he has an inclination to religion, but then he is very cautious how he goes too far in it."George Whitefield

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I sure can say 'amen' to that!Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.

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In this quote Bonhoeffer is making the point that the Church at one point had become so secularized, in his words, that it reacted by implementing the monastic movement to offset the "worldliness" (my word).Thus, he says..."...the Church evolved the fatal conception of the double standard-- a maximum and a minimum standard of Christian obedience. Whenever the Church was accused of being too

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I've been re-reading "The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I would certainly recommend it (especially along with a little study into the life of the author), but I wanted to post a few good quotes.The quote below is from the very beginning of the book where he summarizes the rest of the book. It all deals with a proper definition of grace (costly vs. cheap) and the cost of

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This is very funny.(*Warning: There is some inappropriate language used in this following video.*)

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Here are some pictures of some of the nursery babies & toddlers from the church we minister in(including my two kids).

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I do like to listen to other preachers. Here is a brief summary of the messages that were preached during our last revival.Sunday Morning: Do you want to know God more?Sunday Evening: The heart is deceitful above all things (even to the self).Monday Evening: Have you lost your sanctification?Tuesday Evening: Why are Bad things happening to me? (Rom. 8)Wednesday Evening: The Atonement (There is

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http://www.thedoorpost.com/hope/Volition/A short film about choices.Volition is the power of choosing or determing something. It has to do with having a will to make a choice or decision. This is a powerful, but short film that has ramifications far beyond the few things it addresses.You can view the film at the link above.

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Embarassed not because of my Lord or the Gospel message, but because of what some people will resort to in the name of "evangelism." For example...

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I know, long time no post.Pray for our revival services that will be taking place February 22-25, 2009.Sunday Services are at 10:30am & 5:30pm CT.Monday through Wednesday services are at 6:30pm CT.Our evangelist is Dr. Marlin Hotle. (His website.)

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“We cannot blink the fact that gentle Jesus, meek and mild, was so stiff in His opinions and so inflammatory in His language, that He was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbetted as a firebrand and a public danger. We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah into a household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”Dorothy L. Sayers

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Powerfully moving video on the gift from God of life!

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Here is the Scripture I will be preaching from this Christmas Sunday, December 21, 2008.Psalm 61:1-5Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint ['overwhelmed' in KJV].Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the

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Dedicated to all those Israelites out there that never got the credit for their hard work. Shame on you naughty Egyptians!

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This video is hilarious! My brother, Caleb, says he is going to adopt some of his preaching style. Particularly the pulpit kicking and wiping spit off the mouth!

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Sunday morning, November 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Sunday. Here are just a few of the things we gave thanks for: Donna Lobb Hudson talks about God's faithfulness to her mother, Eula Lobb, who was placed on the Memorial Roll of the Church of the Nazarene.(from left to right: Rev. Bob Hudson, Donna Lobb Hudson, Rodney Hadley, Ruthie Shuffett, & Pasor Jared Henry) The Burning of the Mortgage!(from

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Sunday, November 23, 2008 was the Sunday before Thanksgiving. We were to have our annual Thanksgiving potluck and all the normal things you do on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.This Sunday was different.We had put Eula Lobb on the Memorial Roll of the Church of the Nazarene and were giving the certificate to her daughter and son-in-law Rev. Bob & Donna Hudson. They came up from Louisianna, where

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In our Wednesday night Bible Study we discussed this just briefly and I made a statement that I would like to know who the reporter was so that I could contact the newspaper or tv station he worked for to let them know how disgusting this was; not only on a moral and ethical level, but also a professional level.What am I talking about?Click on this link to get the full story. (The unethical,

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The only problem with this picture is that it may play to the self-centered idea that it is the responsibility of the church, pastor, Sunday school teacher, etc. to "feed" me. And, while they do share in a specific, scriptural responsibility, an individual's spiritual growth is not dumped solely on their spiritual instructors.

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"Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!"Isaiah(Quoted from Isaiah 64:1-2 ESV)

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Christians.Not Obama or McCain, but Christians.Have you noticed how little either one talks about anything pertaining to moral issues. For them the greatest moral issue is socialism vs capitalism or the state of the economy and taxes. Only short segments of the debates were devoted to anything close to moral issues and I believe they both fumbled the ball.McCain, the stereotypical pick for a

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Maybe a good Christian is an underwear model...According to Miley Cyrus in this article.Quote from the article: "'He's a really great Christian guy, which is awesome,' she added about the underwear model."

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Chuck Baldwin and Darrell CastleThey will be on the ballot in most states including my own state of KY.They are running with the constitution party. Following this presidential election I am changing my party affliation to the constitution party.Here is their website.I can hear some saying already... "that is a wasted vote." Doubtful. In fact, I like an article that Chuck Baldwin wrote on the

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I've heard a lot over the last few weeks from the church about tolerance. Since Clay Aiken and Ray Boltz have "come out" the church has been gushing about acceptance, tolerance, and love.The idea is that if we really have the love of Christ within us we will love and accept people regardless of their sin. Usually that translates in a more pragmatic way into tolerating, accepting, and, in some

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Hannah has come home!She already knows how to cry, eat, squirm, and get rid of the waste products from eating! She is such a fast learner!Here are a few pictures: Mommy and Hannah at the hospital. Daddy and Hannah at the hospital. Daddy, Mommy, & Hannah in the recovery room following the c-section. Daddy, Mommy, Jacob, & Hannah in the hospital... the whole family!

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"Christianity does not consist of mere desires to do good deeds. Desires that do not result in action are not virtuous...The most wicked man on earth may have strong desires for holiness. He may clearly see that holiness is the only means of happiness. And the minute he understands that holiness is a means of happiness, he naturally desires it...[but ultimately]...This is [only] practical atheism

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That is a lot of money. Thank you politicians, congress, and Mr. President: you have brought us salvation for only 700 billion dollars!?It won't help anything.I wonder when we will 'get it' as a nation?9/11; Katrina; Troubled EconomyThere's a song titled: "People Need the Lord."Money won't do it! Democrats won't do it! Republicans won't do it! (And certainly not those "green" party folks.)Oh well

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In our never ending move to be "relevant" in our world, I wonder if the church isn't as corny as the poor souls in this video.Of particular interest are the following lyrics from the song in the you tube video below..."He [Jesus] taught me how to praise my God and still play rock-n-roll.""He is like a Mounty, he always gets his man and he'll zap you anyway he can... ZAP.""He loves me when I waste

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"The church began with these men [disciples] in the ‘upper room' agonizing– and today is ending with men in the supper room organizing. The church began in revival; we are ending in ritual. We started virile; we are ending sterile. Charter members of the church were men of heat and no degrees; today many hold degrees, but have no heat! Ah, brethren, flame-hearted men are the crying need of the

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I came across an interesting article that dealt with Ray Boltz's "struggle" with his sexuality. It is presented in a fictitious conversation Ray has with God.Here's the link. It's worth a read.

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The International Church of the Nazarene will be celebrating its centennial on October 5, 2008. God has worked through the Church of the Nazarene to spread the message of Entire Sanctification around the world. I am glad that I am an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. That said, I would like to note not only the Church of the Nazarene, but many denominations move toward more

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McCain or Obama?I got an e-mail the other day... again... from someone that said Obama was a Muslim. If he is, he isn't a very good one.I got an e-mail the other day that said McCain was a Christian. If you believe that I've got a few acres on Venus I can sell you.As a Christian approaching politics you certainly have to make priorities among moral issues. For example, while I believe God has

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Okay, the title was just to get your attention.I was discussing an issue with someone not too long ago when I was asked: "What do you [the church I am a part of] do for this community?"My response was: "We're [the church] trying to get see lost people born-again."To which that person said: "That's it!?...the lost, born-again?"So I must ask: What effect does someone being born-again have on the

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Maybe if I could actually answer that question I would not be posting on a blog, but publishing a best-selling book.Back on March 1-5, 2008 we had a revival that was just that. It was revival, renewing, and refreshing. It was unbelievable. Our church is still feeling the positive effects of what happened in that particular series of services. Certainly there were some who, following the week of

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Tomorrow, Aug. 31, is the beginning of Green River Camp Meeting 2008. (It is August 31st- September 4th.) Services will be held here in Greensburg, KY at the Legion Park underneath the pavilion. Rev. Kenny Greenway, from North Carolina is the evangelist and Rev. Jason Coulter, a pastor from Stanford, KY is the song evangelist. Service times are Sunday 10:00am and 5:00pm and Monday through

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For background on my post, you will have to go to this webpage on Emergent Village.com.Oprah, who appears to be attempting to start her own religion flooded with the same old humanistic new age mumbo jumbo through the teachings of Eckhart Tolle the author of "A New Earth."Tolle apparantly had a "spiritual experience" (along with every other David Koresh; Jesus-wanna-be) that changed his life for

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Here is some fodder for any antagonist out there. I would only ask that you come up with a creative, original, or never-before-heard-by-me argument against the following passages of Scripture.Long-haired men.1 Corinthians 11:14-15 "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her

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The full context of this list can be found at this website. The following is taken directly from the website linked to, it is in no way original thought of my own (of course nothing ever is if you think about it).1) Show others that you are not afraid to be open and transparent with your love life. That makes you seem "real". Talk about your wife in gushy glowing terms, like you can't wait to get

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This might be the last of this "series" on things that cause division in churches.The fourth is: Local/Denominational Standards & TheologyLiberals and post-modern types that hate any kind of standards may be cheering right now, but wait, it's not what you think.My point is: Don't try to change the church! Why is it someone can start going to a church or join a denomination and believe they have a

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Go into any Christian book store and walk into the pastor's section and you will be inundated with book after book about the same thing, but described in different ways."Effective Ministry""Relevant Ministry""Powerful Ministry""Exciting Ministry""Passionate Ministry"Those all sound like book titles to me. (The funny thing about it is that you can drop the word 'ministry' and add 'worship' and you

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Adjective ChurchesThis is a third major category of thing that brings division in church today.Think about how often we tell about a church by describing it as a "black" church or "charismatic" church. If it is predominantly made up of a minority group we will label it that way. (Hispanic church, Korean church, etc.)We also often reference a church by the average income level of those who attend.

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I don't think I need to say anything more than this video does.

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Worship WarsThis is the second major thing that divides many churches today. It is sadly ironic that those two words ('worship' and 'war') are in the same sentence describing one thing.It is most often divided into two sides: (1) traditional and (2) contemporary.Although to really spice it up you can divide into a number of other categories...(3) liturgical(4) emergent (they have their own style?

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Not my own, but definitely worth adopting and modifying. For lack of time, I'll just give you a link to their list. (As always, I do not endorse the whole blog.)Here is the list titled: Why did the Emergent Chicken Cross the Road?Here is the list titled: Top Ten Reasons Why the Emerger Didn't Cross the Road?.

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There is a new couple that have recently started coming to our church. They didn't come because they saw the church name on a billboard, received a mailing, went to our slick website (we don't have one), saw an ad in the paper about our new seats with cup-holders (we don't have any), or saw the impressive architecture of the church building (it is impressive though). They came because someone in

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You need to read this article and sign-up! (There may be a hint of sarcasm in there.)If you sign up, you won't have to witness to anybody here on earth, just wait until Jesus comes back and let the computer do it for you!

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Acts 2:1 "When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place." (ESV)Allow me a moment of commentary on the verse. It seems there is a redundancy when the Bible says "they were all together in one place." If people are in one place, then they are obviously 'all together.' It would seem that something else is being said here. The KJV maybe says it better: "And when the day of

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That's right, I'm all for them! That certainly isn't a popular stance right now, but mine none the less.Keith Drury dealt with this in his blog with 7 advantages of a denomination. However, his has more to do with why a preacher might choose to be in a denomination. My reasoning has more to do with local churches (including the local pastor) and more general reasons why denominations are a

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I have been tied up the last month and a half or so with the alcohol referendum in Green County. As director of Concerned Citizens Against Alcohol I have learned a lot about human nature, Christian compromise, and the church's silence on issues. Many things have troubled me about this whole "campaign."Hopefully my schedule will start to get back to normal now.The election was held on Tuesday, May

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A group of people from the community that I live in have formed Concerned Citizens Against Alcohol (CCAA).CCAA has started a blog which you can find here.Continue to be in prayer for our community as we fight the destructive influence of alcohol in our small town.

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Come on, does anyone actually believe these kinds of folks will be around in forty years?They'll grow up, hopefully wise up, and get a life!No, seriously.They are actually just a little over forty years too late for their movement, it really began in the 'free love' sixties.Here is what it boils down to:1) They hate established Christianity. They believe everything must change. They believe that

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While I may agree with most of the following posts, I do not necessarily agree with everything in the blog. If you want to know what I think, you have to ask me.On MembershipI Like Old Fashioned Holiness Folks (I am definitely on board with this one.)Green is the new Pro-LifeAlso, I am going to attempt to post an outline version of at least one sermon a week. (Excluding time limitations.) I will

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The following is in the Tuesday, April 14, edition of the local newspaper: The Green River Sun. The vote on making our county wet (or, more technically, 'moist') is May 20th. Please pray for our community and specifically the one precinct (South Greensburg Precinct) that can vote on this issue.Here's the article that I wrote for the paper:Alcohol: The problem, not the solution!If you would ask a

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Okay, we hear those words all the time in the church but do we actually live them out or even remotely believe them in the church.Allow me to give some examples of when we really do believe it is about us...1) Music in the church. How many times have you heard the following: "I didn't like the music this morning." "I just can't worship with the organ/drums/etc." "I don't know why we sing out of a

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This is a link to a sermon preached by Paris Reidhead entitled: Ten Shekels and a Shirt.It will be a bit of a read, but it is a powerful sermon!It will probably take less time to read it than it would to listen to it, but you may want to do both after you read over it. (You can right click and save as on each link below.)ManuscriptAudioHope this is beneficial!

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Some folks that use television as there mode of choice to communicate "the Gospel" are making my job a little harder. Sometimes what it means to be a pastor in America today involves more re-education than it does evangelism!I hope the following video makes you as angry as it does me.Less I pick only on television nuts, I will at least make you privy to some more heresy by the post-moderns at

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Our scheduled revival services ended on Wednesday, March 5. I sent a mass e-mail out to many describing some of what occurred, but wanted to put it on the blog as well. I know it will be a long post, but it is worth it:God has been moving! Folks are getting saved, sanctified through & through, and getting serious about their spiritual lives! Some long time church-goers are finding out what it

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1 John 4:1 (ESV) "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."I would like to propose 10 indications you may have had the wool pulled over your eyes when it comes to tele-evangelists!1) You own all the books written by Joel Osteen as well as T.D. Jake's movie.2) You bought 'miracle' spring water

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