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Birthday celebration

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »

Zanelle’s Papa came to visit us the other day.  Please pray for opportunities to share the gospel and the love of Christ with him.

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Meditations on Psalm 8

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »

Our worship often needs fuel.
One of the best places to fill up on fuel for worship is in the Psalms.  It is often helpful to read the Psalms and simply identify what they teach you about God. 
Take Psalm 8. 
It tells us that:
God has set His glory above the heavens. 
He has established strength out of the [...]

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It seems to me…

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »

Very often there are people who are balanced and then there are people who actually get things done.

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Our Three Four Year Olds

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »


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Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »


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Meditations on Psalm 8

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »

If I am a peasant and the king notices me it is very likely my attitude will be quite different than if I am the king’s brother.  
King’s brothers tend to want to overthrow the king.  
Peasants tend to be thankful just to be noticed. 
It is important that we have the right perspective when it [...]

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A question?

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »

How much is the way you define yourself grounded what God has accomplished in the gospel and how much of it really is influenced by other factors?

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Meditations on Psalm 8

Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

When I see a baby the first word that comes to my mind usually isn’t strength.
Babies, nursing babies are helpless. 
If I went out to pick people to join an army to fight my enemies, I wouldn’t generally pick babies.  But that’s the picture David gives us of the kind of people God has chosen to [...]

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Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It was such a pleasure to have these men over.  They came to church and then for dinner.  Four of them are from the D.R.C. originally, one of them is from Burundi.  Marda made apple pie.  That was a real hit.  They had never had pie before.  Come to think of it, they hadn’t hardly [...]

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Posted in Preaching and Pastoring on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »

These are a couple of our friends from the D.R.C. and then one from Burundi.  The man second to the right one we are hoping to help with the plane ticket for his wife. I just found out the other day though, the one second to the left has a wife and two children in [...]

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