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5 days ago1 min read
WHY INVITE?
Our leadership team had a rich discussion on why they or anybody would invite someone to church. If you don’t regularly invite others to...
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pastormia20
Feb 61 min read
RHYTHM OF LIFE
Our last shape in this series is the semi-circle, the shape made by a pendulum swinging back and forth. We’ll use this shape to talk...
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pastormia20
Jan 301 min read
THREE RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS
The life of a disciple is always about relationship. This Sunday we’ll use the triangle to look at our three primary relationships: God,...
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pastormia20
Jan 231 min read
DISCERNMENT & GROWING DISCIPLESHIP
This Sunday our vocabulary shape is a circle, giving a method for discernment and growing as disciples using situations and issues that...
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pastormia20
Jan 161 min read
POURING OUT & FILLING UP
Last week we looked at Jesus’ core teachings of love God & people, pour out & fill up, and unity with God and others. It’s simple, but...
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pastormia20
Jan 91 min read
WALKING THE WALK
When I was a kid and unchurched, I thought being Christian was all about making yourself believe certain things about God. Christians so...
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pastormia20
Jan 21 min read
EPIPHANY!!!
On Christmas Eve 97 people experienced candlelight and the telling of the Christmas story with light. It was a powerful experience of God...
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pastormia20
Dec 26, 20241 min read
CHRISTMAS!!!
We’ve been hearing the Christmas story from the gospels of Matthew & Luke, of a baby being born in Bethlehem, of shepherds, and angels,...
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pastormia20
Dec 19, 20241 min read
4TH WEEK OF ADVENT: THE LIVING ONE
I know the difference between getting by and really living. There have been seasons in my life when I was plowing forward as fast as I...
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pastormia20
Dec 12, 20241 min read
3RD WEEK OF ADVENT: THE DELIVERING ONE
Cold & flu season is upon us and it got me, not bad, but with enough of a cough to make leading worship pretty difficult. I am so...
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pastormia20
Dec 5, 20241 min read
2ND WEEK OF ADVENT: THE LIVING ONE
We tend to see what we look for. When I was pregnant, it suddenly seemed as if there were pregnant people everywhere. It wasn’t true, I...
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pastormia20
Nov 28, 20241 min read
ADVENT & GOD IS BORN
It’s actually pretty scandalous, God being born. That is messy business with pain, discomfort, chills, and exhaustion. But it was the...
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pastormia20
Nov 21, 20241 min read
INFLUENCERS: BUILDING OTHERS UP
Our Christian influence is felt strongest when we build others up. It starts with hearing God’s call. God calls each of us uniquely, to a...
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pastormia20
Nov 14, 20241 min read
INFLUENCERS: WE ALL HAVE STUFF
This week we’ll hear from Bishop Cedrick via video, on the stuff in our lives and the ways Jesus’ influence impacts our time. Bishop...
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pastormia20
Nov 7, 20241 min read
INFLUENCERS: WHO INFLUENCES YOU?
On social media, influencers are people with millions of followers who sell time to corporate sponsors, making millions of dollars. I can...
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pastormia20
Oct 31, 20241 min read
DO UNTO OTHERS: LOVE, ECONOMICS AND HOPE
This is perhaps the toughest week. Â Next Tuesday all the rhetoric, the positioning, the discussion will be over and votes will be cast....
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pastormia20
Oct 24, 20241 min read
DO UNTO OTHERS: HUMILITY, IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CONTROL
Compassion transforms the world and we can only hold hard-lined positions when we have no lived experience of the issue. Immigration is...
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pastormia20
Oct 17, 20241 min read
DO UNTO OTHERS: COMPASSION & WOMEN’S HEALTH
As Christ-followers, compassion is non-optional. Our faith is expressed in our voting and God is transforming the world through us. Hard...
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pastormia20
Oct 10, 20241 min read
DO UNTO OTHERS: COMPASSION
An election is coming. There are signs and ads telling you who to vote for. The news is telling you about issues and where the candidates...
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pastormia20
Oct 3, 20241 min read
OPEN TO FREEDOM
I remember hearing about faith & freedom before Jesus got a hold of me. It didn’t make any sense. From what I could see, faith was just...
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