Finding Our Way Again

January 17, 2015

The modern concept of the church is more the construct of the culture than the community of the people of God.  Far too often it is more of a corporation where performance has trumped genuine…
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Lectio Divina

January 10, 2015

Lectio Divina is Latin for the concept of divine reading or spiritual reading.  It is a way of reading the Scripture that becomes a way of living the Scripture.  It involves the concepts of reading…
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“The Faith”

January 3, 2015

God our Father…God is for us Jesus Christ…God is with us Holy Spirit…God is in us Humanity…God made us Sin…God knows us Scriptures…God speaks to us Salvation…God rescues us Church…God commissions us Angels…God protects us…
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Different and the Same

December 20, 2014

The conversion story of every believer in Jesus Christ is unique.  A child may come to Christ in the formative years while an adult may be born again in the latter years.  Every story will…
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Homothumadon

December 12, 2014

Homothumadon is the combination of two Greek words, homo (same) and thumas (strong emotion, surging with energy, breathing hard).  It speaks of having a unity of heart and mind and purpose.  It is a passionate, consensual,…
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Koinonia

November 15, 2014

Our culture sees independence and individualism as signs of strength.  This illusion doubles as a delusion, manifested as self-indulgence and isolationism.  People really do need each other.  We are engineered to touch each other’s lives…
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Ekklesia

November 9, 2014

In the first century, ekklesia was the term used for a gathering of citizens called out of their homes and into a public place.  The purpose for the assembly was for a political discussion, a…
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Proseuche

November 1, 2014

Following the ascension of Christ and the events of Pentecost, believers were referred to by the culture around them as “the Way.” They were distinguished by their way of life rather than an organization or…
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Logos

October 23, 2014

In the gospel of John we are introduced to Jesus Christ as being the Word (Logos). Early in the first chapter we see the pre-existence of the Word in fellowship with the Father in a…
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Soteria

October 18, 2014

Mention salvation, and nearly all Western Christians assume that you mean going to heaven when you die. They also hold to the assumption that their salvation is wholly about their own personal “relationship with God.” …
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