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A BEAUTIFUL WITH-NESS

A Beautiful With-Ness

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This past Sunday I spoke on the story of Ruth – about how she lived out a faithful “with-ness.” When Ruth told Naomi, “Your people will be my people,” she was saying, “I’m WITH YOU in this.”

Here are the concluding lines of the sermon:

What is brave? To be faithful, even when other’s aren’t. It’s brave to live out a faithful with-ness, while others have chosen to avoid eye contact and walk on the other side of the street. God help us to be brave.

The picture at the top of this post is from Saturday’s Great Big Backpack Give. DJ Schug is standing with his friends from school. Last Fall, DJ’s mom discovered a “How to speak Arabic” text book in DJ’s school bag. When she asked him about it, he… Read More

your church is better than mine B

Another Reason Your Church Is Better

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My church just doesn’t measure up.

While other churches are describing themselves as “One church, three locations,” or “One church, fifteen locations,” we don’t even bother to announce that we are “One church, one location.” Although, I did once consider calling our Mother’s Room the “South Campus” because it has a live feed of our service and it’s south of our auditorium… until I realized we couldn’t give tours of our South Campus because of the moms nursing babies in there. Awkward.

 Since we don’t have the McChurch franchise thing going on (yet anyway), your church is better than mine.

Here’s another one: our worship leader doesn’t have a beard. I mean, how is that even possible in 2013??!!?!?? I think you’re starting to get the picture: your church is better than mine… Read More