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God’s movement among “The Next” now!

By joel | Published: August 13, 2009
I was hang­ing with the Sr. High Youth tonight and saw kids respond­ing to the move­ment of God in their lives.  Some were seek­ing prayer for tough things, other were ask­ing good ques­tions, each had the oppor­tu­nity to pray with a leader who loved and cared for them.  I can tell you there are few [...]
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Post Mortem

By joel | Published: August 9, 2009
So it’s Sun­day Night and I am sit­ting here just chill­ing…  Thought I would post some thoughts and obser­va­tions… Lit­tle morsels to chew on –The Red Sox are flat out depress­ing right now, and the Yan­kees look great… I am glad my hope is in Jesus –God is at work among the MCC folk.  It was just so [...]
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How To Handle The Pain — The Negative Response To Our Positive Attempt At Reconciliation

By joel | Published: August 3, 2009
Yes­ter­day at MCC we looked at God’s 6th com­mand con­cern­ing mur­der and Jesus’ teach­ing on the seeds of mur­der that are planted in our heart.  The admo­ni­tion and appli­ca­tion to our anger whether it be a quick blow up because some­one has pushed our but­tons in just the right way, or the begin­ning of heal­ing [...]
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The Upside of Anger

By joel | Published: August 1, 2009
Tomor­row morn­ing at Church we hit the 6th com­mand and will be spend­ing our time med­i­tat­ing on Jesus teach­ing con­cern­ing the com­mand.  In that teach­ing he hits hard on the root of mur­der which begins in our heart.  But is all anger wrong? The other side of anger takes us to John 2:13 – 17 where Jesus clears the [...]
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Jesus — “I will build my Church”

By joel | Published: July 29, 2009
Recently I have just been geek­ing out on Matthew 16:18 where Jesus states “I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not pre­vail against it”.  It is one of those pas­sages that just struck me right between the eyes.  We spend some much time mak­ing our plans, bound by the busy­ness of [...]
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The 10 Commandments Made Easy

By joel | Published: July 29, 2009
Since we are doing the 10 Com­mand­ment Study I thought it would be fun to post this. A good friend sent it along. Enjoy Some peo­ple have trou­ble with all those ‘shall’s’ and ‘shall not’s’ in the Ten commandments. Folks just aren’t used to talk­ing in those terms. So, in mid­dle Ten­nessee they trans­lated [...]
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