A Perfect Place for Imperfect People
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I've gotten a little behind on my study of John - it's been busy and I've allowed myself to get distracted. So tonight I set down to try and catch up...after making up a good portion of what I have missed, I came across a great passage in 2 Peter that I wanted to share with anyone willing to read my blog - it has such a great message and just what I needed to hear. 2 Peter 2:17 - 18 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by… Continue
Posted on October 5th, 2008 at 11:44pm —
Ever feel like someone was trying to tell you something? I'm taking part in a Bible study on Wednesday mornings. It is a study of the book of John and we pretty much go line by line with the scripture to reveal the truth in the Word. Each week we are asked to write on our cover the most important thing that we have taken away from our study in the past week and how we will apply it to our lives. As I paused to write my lesson this week I reflected on what I wrote down for last week... Joh… Continue
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment
Weakness - it's a bad thing right. When I think weakness I think failure. I think of all those things that I can't do. But I was given a new perspective on weakness tonight - one filled with hope and victory rather than failure. I am reading Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala, he writes, "God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power." Now that's good stuff. That… Continue
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 9:04pm — 1 Comment
I've been a Christian for just over 12 years or so...some times walking more in faith than others. Some times spending a great deal more time in the Word and in a relationship with Him than others. I just started a new study this past week. I'm studying the Book of John. I've studied it before, but I am so excited to get into it again. Throughout my Christian walk I have heard of people saying that they just aren't being fed anymore. That maybe the message at their church isn't challenging the… Continue
Posted on September 9th, 2008 at 5:00pm —
So as I set out on the journey of the 30 days my intentions along the way was that I would post a blog every day for 30 days. I'd like to take some time to share with you what I have learned over this time...I would LOVE to hear from any of you who have read even just one of the posts to find out what you were able to take away from my journey... So here we go, lessons learned.... 1. Even with the best of intentions, life happens, and finding time to sit down with a laptop for 30 days straigh… Continue
Posted on August 27th, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I will have Don set you up as an administrator and I'll talk with him about how to clean somethings up - that is a great suggestion.
We should almost treat this like a new launch so those groups that are currently on the site we should reach out to those who started them to see if they are interested in managing them or if we can remove them.
If you have a chance, check out this ning site sometime - http://community.bethjones.org/ - this is a ning site that is running out of a church in Michigan...the site is for women - but I think it will give you a great idea of what we could do with our North Park site.
Maybe we can try to get some "mentoring" opportunities going with setting up groups on the site - the groups can be open to anyone but we can make sure that we have someone dedicated to "running" the group. Maybe we can talk more about this on Tuesday.