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I love social media. I spend time connecting with friends in my community and friends around the world. One of my greatest abiding frustrations with the internet and print media in general is that you cannot see a person’s face and always accurately interpret things like tone and/or motive. This reality often leads to misunderstanding. Read more
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Particularly in our digital age it is easy to get distracted. I suppose it has always been so and some people are more prone than others. So how do we avoid distraction and stay focused. In my own life (especially, but not only spiritually) I have taken much comfort in the subject matter of this Read more
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Clearly this week’s topic is a difficult one considering the aggregate of our cultural landscape. We do not see regular and/or verifiable expressions that may be unequivocally labeled “miraculous”. Mr. Webster simply defines a miracle as “a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work Read more
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First I must include a disclaimer: I am a rabid fan of AT&T as I, my wife and all 3 teenaged kids are more-than-satisfied AT&T customers. That said, when I selected this book for review I did so almost exclusively because of its title. My family and I are in the early days of starting Read more
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It may seem strange (or more likely, even crazy) for an infant church to talk about (let alone, value) a pursuit such as Helping Start Churches. That said, our final value – one that we have adopted since the inception of Process Church – is that of Helping Start Churches. We want to be very Read more
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We all have philosophical & practical places to which we return; in part to assure ourselves that in fact we are still on course. And even if the declared origin is my own thinking, I return to my thoughts to check myself. It is equally true that most of us have a detectable set of Read more
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Most of us have an adverse reaction to change. After all, we work hard to create environments that are appealing to us. Why would we want to change them? Because we naturally resist change we want to build this philosophy of creative change into the value system of Process Church. The reasons to have creative Read more
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The next value of Process Church that we’ll examine is this idea of Following Jesus. I have conducted dozens of interviews with people who consider themselves “outside the church”. In a majority of those cases these same people have shunned church not because they didn’t care for Jesus, but had a difficult time with people Read more
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The idea of forgiveness raises many points for discussion. It pre-supposes right and wrong and makes the offender the one standing in need. But what if the offender never asks for forgiveness? Am I still compelled to forgive? Is forgiveness even necessary? We will dissect this living illustration of forgiveness in Luke 7:36-50. This passage Read more
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Our steadfast belief is this… that God created us for togetherness. It certainly begins with what has historically been referred to as the communion of saints (those who believe in and follow Jesus). But our further belief is that we were created to share life with those with whom we may share little more than Read more
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This week we’ll finish our study of Job’s life & the book dedicated to it. Job has come full circle. He begins with a life without blame. Loses everything. Never quite blames God, but considers himself innocent. Is reminded of the truth by God Himself… that none of us are without blame before God. And Read more
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