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Renewing Our Worship: Getting the Details Right

In most churches, worship is where a potential convert first encounters the church as community. It’s a public event — advertised as such. And it obviously is intended to communicate who we are as a people. Well, it’s obvious to … Continue reading

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Alabama Signs Another No. 1 Recruiting Class

You can’t help but notice that number 2, Ohio State, is closer to number 9 Michigan than to number 1 Alabama over the last two years. Thanks to Dr. Saturday.

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Renewing Our Worship: Getting Organized

Maybe this is too obvious. I apologize if it is. But doing worship well requires organizing the right way. And I think the reason we so often do worship badly is, in part, because we so often organize badly. Let … Continue reading

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Penn on Evangelism

This video is not a joke. In fact, it’s a serious as the fires of hell. Penn, of the Penn & Teller magic act, is famous for being an atheist and for criticizing religion — and being quite outspoken on … Continue reading

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Tim Hawkins on Leading Worship

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I Once Was Broke, But Now I’m Not

Promo video for a stewardship seminar  —

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“I Love Jesus, But I Drink a Little”

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Tithing Gets a Bad Rap

It’s Saturday! From 12Stone Church, thanks to Todd Rhoades at MMI.

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Renewing Our Worship: Change

First, a joke — Q. How many Church of Christ members does it take to change a lightbulb? A. Change???!! If you graph the distribution of humans on just about any criteria, you get a bell curve. It’s true for … Continue reading

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Renewing Our Worship: Frontier Revivalism and the Invitation

I think it’s important as we consider our worship practices that we understand where they come from. Much of what we do has a clear, historical origin: the frontier revivalism of the early 19th Century. Following the American Revolution, religion … Continue reading

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