Contributed by Martin Wiles on Aug 23, 2010
WALKING IN A RUT
Have you ever felt as if you were in a rut? Some years ago, me, my brother and daughter went hiking on the Appalachian Trail on the North Carolina, Tennessee border. It is an area called the Bald Mountains because you actually walk over the tops of the mountains. It is grasslands
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LOOKS GREAT, BUT WHAT DOES IT DO?
I once read about a certain Mr. Wahlstrom who purchased an old bombsight and took it apart to see what made it work. As he began to put it back together, he decided to add to it some spare parts he had from other projects. Over time, friends and neighbors took an
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Presbyterian/Reformed
"IT"
Did any of you see a film that came out in the 90s - "The Adams Family". There's a creature named "it" that is a hand that runs around on its own [mime it]. St Paul tells us the church is the body of Christ. We are all parts of a body interconnected with each other. But if we try to be
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Anglican
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It has always been clear that the goal of the Eucharist is our own transformation, so that we become "one body and
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Catholic
Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. Worship...is the fuel and goal of missions.
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 10, 2011
KINGDOM INFRASTRUCTURE
America’s economic health is partly dependent upon infrastructure: speedy roads, bridges, trains, electrical capacity, usable water, high speed internet, trained or skilled workers, etc.
Healthy churches are foundational to getting God’s work done: they support the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
THE MORTAL WORK OF ART
Shelley Jackson is a writer. Yet, you cannot read anything she's written in a magazine, book or screen. Instead, you have to look at people. Her story is written on human skin. Her story is called "Skin." Jackson calls it "a mortal work of art." It is a fictional piece
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
I enjoy watching a TV show called Storage Wars. In this reality show people bid on storage units that have been abandoned after having five minutes to look at them from the doorway. I enjoy watching because many times they find some great treasures worth a lot of money buried in all the other
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Baptist
WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE!
From movie, "Horton Hears a Who!"
Clip from movie about 5 minutes.
The "Who" people with the help of Horton shouted, proclaimed, cried out and made themselves heard -- it was life and death by the way -- they did this to let the rest of the world around them know that
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
"True worship is God-centered worship. People tend to get caught up in where they should worship, what music they should sing in worship, and how their worship looks to other people. Focusing on these things misses the point.
Jesus tells us that true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in
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