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Transformed Episode #086 – Questions the New Year Brings: Question 4
Schedules from work, school, community groups and church often seem to clutter our lives and, we are almost driven to insanity as we seek to make sense of the mess. In the coming year, I want to serve people as … Continue reading
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From Sick Churches to Healthy Churches (Part 2)
There are a growing number of American Churches that have discovered the keys to health and are enjoying the benefits thereof. Again, we know why this is and we know what to do to bring health to a local church. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged American Churches, grace, healthy churches, love, mercy, sick churches
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Transformed Episode #085 – Questions the New Year Brings: Question 3
2009 was filled with distractions, not the least of which was the economy. One of the key changes that I want to make in my life in 2010 is to stay closer to Jesus every day and all throughout each … Continue reading
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Tagged discipleship, intimacy with Christ, New Year, resolution
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From Sick Churches to Healthy Churches (Part 1)
Win Arn has said, that 80-85% of all American Churches are in decline! We know why this is and we know what to do. Often however, local churches refuse to take the steps necessary to bring about health and, as … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged American Churches, griping, healthy churches, lording, menacing, sick churches, squeaky wheel, tantrums, threats, Win Arn
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Transformed Episode #084 – Questions the New Year Brings: Question 2
As I think about how Jesus looks at life, I realize that his perspective is so much different than mine. Like buttons on an elevator, my core social group will either lift me or they will take me down. The … Continue reading
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Healthy churches exhibit certain attitudes…
Perry Noble recently wrote, “I am seeing more young men rise up and plant churches…men with vision, passion and courage, men who refuse to accept the status quo, men with a genuine passion to see people far from God come … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptable, birthing, evangelism, evangelistic, grow churches, growth, growth attitudes, healthy church, helpful, humble, humility, loving, nourishing, Perry Noble, plant churches, reprodcing, spiritual gifts, spiritual vitality, transformation, transparent, yielded
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Transformed Episode #083 – Questions the New Year Brings: Question 1
Today we begin a new series entitled, Questions the New Year Brings! As the new calendars go up, we all feel something refreshing about ʻbeing done withʼ the last year. Whether it was a year of incredible accomplishment or terrible … Continue reading
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