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The Great Divide — Directors Cut

By joel | Published: February 21, 2010
As we have embarked on our weekly study of Corinthi­ans I am using this blog space to expand on the series, answer fol­low up ques­tions, and include infor­ma­tion that just some­times does not fit into the con­text of Sun­day morning. In today’s episoded of Director’s Cut (because I can­not think of a bet­ter name for it) [...]
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The Power of Dreams

By joel | Published: February 18, 2010
I had the unique priv­i­lege and edu­ca­tional oppor­tu­nity to spend a por­tion of my day talk­ing with a prin­ci­pal of, what is in my opin­ion, one of the great design firms and inno­va­tors cur­rently out there today.  Some­times life throws us those neat lit­tle treats, the gifts that we get to enjoy.  I have had [...]
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The Corinthians — The Dream — Director’s cut

By joel | Published: February 16, 2010
So I hope over the com­ing weeks to blog some of the stuff from our new series at Marsh Creek Church enti­tled The Corinthi­ans.  This past Sun­day we kicked it all off by look­ing back at the plant of the Corinthian Church by Paul.  What I found so unique about this par­tic­u­lar Church plant was [...]
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Help for Haiti

By joel | Published: January 14, 2010
The disaster in Haiti is personal for me because I have been there and have had a chance to be impacted by their people. Their faith, their generosity, their hospitality despite their worldly poverty showed me how rich they truly are
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Journey — The Beginning

By joel | Published: October 24, 2009
Tonight, actu­ally all day I have been pray­ing for tomorrow’s lead­er­ship team meet­ing.  I am both excited and ner­vous.  We are about to head out on a new jour­ney as a Church.  We are try­ing to under­stand our­selves, our his­tory, and finally and most impor­tantly our jour­ney in God’s story.  That is the most excit­ing [...]
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Our souls go hungry

By joel | Published: October 16, 2009
I was read­ing Eccle­si­astes 6 this morn­ing and came across verse 7. “We work to feed our appetites, mean­while our souls go hungry” Those words hit me.  How much time do we spend feed­ing our appetites.  I think the author hit the nail on the head for the com­mon con­di­tion of the Amer­i­can Church goer.  We spend so much [...]
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Monday Morning Quarterback — Sunday

By joel | Published: October 4, 2009
Today was another great day at MCC.  Here are just some thoughts about this week­ends stuff. –Yesterday’s Mon­ster Yard Sale was a big time suc­cess.  The Park­ing lot was packed all day with all sorts of peo­ple con­nect­ing.  It was such a bless­ing to see the fruit of all the hard work put in.  We made enough [...]
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Basic for Granted

By joel | Published: September 27, 2009
This past week I was struck with an inter­est­ing and unex­pected life les­son.  After a blessed Mon­day, thanks to a gen­er­ous invi­ta­tion to a great round of golf, I came down that after­noon with a small cough.  Later that night the cough felt like a rag­ing fire in my lunges and I was hav­ing a [...]
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Everyone, Reach One

By joel | Published: September 20, 2009
It amazes me how often the church (at large) talks a big game about out­reach yet the meth­ods we choose are big­ger and bet­ter pro­grams to hope­fully attract peo­ple to come in.  I don’t find that strat­egy any­where in scrip­ture.  Any pro­gram a church puts on should sim­ply be a tool to bring peo­ple together [...]
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Post Mortem… 9/​13

By joel | Published: September 13, 2009
So I am finally sit­ting down after a pretty full day and I am wiped.  But the good kind of wiped where lots of good stuff hap­pened and you are just so thank­ful to be alive.   So here are some thoughts on the days events… –What a beau­ti­ful day, it was nearly per­fect –The Eagles got [...]
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