What Is Ash Wednesday? | BillStreger.com
Have you ever wondered what Ash Wednesday or Lent is all about? Check out what Pastor Bill Streger, of Kaleo Church in Houston, says…
What Is Ash Wednesday? | BillStreger.com.
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What is the Missional Church?
What is it? Great summary found below
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Noelle on Haiti
Check out what Noelle Gonzalez, a part of the Redeemer Bible Church family, shared with the local paper, on being in Haiti during the quake and the last week of her mission trip.
Here is an excerpt from an email that Noelle wrote to her parents within a day of the earthquake.
This has been the hardest [...]
Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald in Hati
We can’t stop praying for Haiti and getting involved.
Dystantfunctional Communtity – 2
Signs of a Dystantfunctional Community
My suspicion is that there are more people than not, who are in distant/dysfunctional communities. Now, these are not irreversible, they just need to be diagnosed and corrected (repented of). It may not be that the whole community is that way, although it may be possible as well. More likely than [...]
The Dystantfunctional Community – Pt. 1
If you are reading this blog, you probably go to church. Great. If not, you’re welcome at mine. But how integral is the church in your week? Month? Day? Year? I don’t mean the church service. When I say church, I am not saying ‘the service’ that occurs on Sunday morning, but the community. The [...]
Pray for the Persecuted
Excerpt from, Islamic Christianophobia, an article from the Wall Street Journal…
In Egypt, seven Coptic Christians were murdered yesterday by a Muslim gunman as they filed out of a midnight mass in the southern town of Nag Hamadi. In Pakistan, more than 100 Christian homes were ransacked by a Muslim mob last July in the village [...]
20 Thoughts for Worship Services
Don Whitney offers some wisdom and food for thought here…
1. Focus on God in every element in worship.
2. Have clear Biblical support for every element in worship.
3. “Offer to God an acceptable service [i.e., worship] in reverence and awe” (Hebrews 12:28).
4. Preach expositionally.
5. “Give attention to the public reading of Scripture” (1 Timothy 4:13).
6. Pray!
7. [...]
