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Are Those Planters for Sprouting Ideas?

03/01/2025

Take time to build true friendships. Model the behavior you hope to see in others. Build up families and strong values. Defend the truth with kindness and authentic honesty. Encourage individual flourishing by offering assistance without creating dependency. Humbly admit your own faults, frailties, and biases. Depend on the finished work of the One Who's already perfectly done it. Walk in the way of this blessing. [...]

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Why Does It Have to Be So Loud?

02/01/2025

Song choice and volume of music are important considerations. Making just the right choices can be a difficult task for local church leaders. The air temperature in the sanctuary is another common sticking point! There is such a thing as too hot, and too loud. Often the decibels are too much for older congregants. The Church shouldn’t divide along generational lines. So, it’s a mistake to appease the young at the expense of serving all. [...]

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Nothing Prepares One Better Than a Love for God’s Word and the Wise Counsel of Our Comforter

01/07/2022

Seeking to “cast a vision” other than the one laid out by Christ in the Gospels will inevitably lead to mission drift at best, and apostasy at worst. Striving for excellence is commendable, but if the effort to be extraordinary leads to pride, ego, or self-sufficiency, then the church ends up with something worse than mediocrity… Maybe this is okay for social clubs, but it’s definitely not okay for Christ’s church. [...]

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