John on July 22nd, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
What’s on your to-do list today?
Whether you use Outlook Calendars, a Franklin-Covey planner, a piece of scrap paper, or just [...]

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John on July 14th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
I sure hope you don’t have a case of the Mondays today!
If you do, I suppose you could take it [...]

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John on July 8th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
Remember the story of Benaiah?  2 Samuel 23:20-21.
When he was a boy, did Benaiah’s mom tell him not to play [...]

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John on July 1st, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com

Each of us have lions that we face everyday – things/ideas/temptations that threaten to track us down and gobble up [...]

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John on June 24th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.
If you’re wondering where Mark got the title for his book, it’s from the great section of II Samuel where the writer lists all [...]

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John on June 17th, 2008

If you haven’t found the pattern yet, we’ve been discussing a book on Tuesdays. It’s been kind of one sided, mostly because I didn’t actually tell you ahead of time what we’re going to be reading. My bad. I forgot to put my telepathy helmet on…
So…here’s the advanced notice: Beginning [...]

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John on June 9th, 2008

To continue our discussion from last week and to finish our look at Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens, let’s consider the last things he discusses: stories of churches who are engaging & redeeming pop culture for the sake of the gospel.
Each church story is unique, but there seem to be some common threads [...]

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John on June 3rd, 2008

The final 2 chapters of PGTC make up my favorite part of the book. We’ll take chapter 12 (of 13) today. Tim Stevens summarizes his interviews with 20 churches about how they have used pop culture, and not always positively or ‘successfully’, to share the Gospel with their communities. To find out more about these [...]

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John on May 27th, 2008

**Here we go with Chapters 8-11 of Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens. For more info go to Popgoesthechurch.com.
It’s here, about half way through the book, that Tim stops to see if we’re all still along for the ride. Many people are probably digging the idea that the church can leverage [...]

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John on May 20th, 2008

**Here we go with Chapters 4-7 of Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens. Tim’s a part of Granger Community Church’s executive leadership team and focuses on blending innovative outreach and discipleship. In Pop Goes the Church, Stevens wants his reader to be able to leverage our culture’s media saturation into opportunities to [...]

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