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My Weekend at the Monastery
So life has been crazy lately, for a lot of different reasons. Several weeks ago, I decided that I needed to take a weekend away from everything and get by myself and spend some time alone with God. One of the spiritual disciplines that I have royally sucked at over the last 10-12 years is [...]
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I’m watching the videos of the main sessions from the 2008 Unleash Conference at NewSpring Church, and Perry Noble just said something that really hit me hard. He was talking about the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15, but he didn’t talk about the lost son. He talked about the other son. Basically, [...]
READ MORE »Shouting With Your Story
Last Sunday, we didn’t have a “sermon” at Amelia. The last message in our Decibels series was brought by four individuals in our church family via video testimonies or stories. I finally got them posted last night, so you can see all four of them on our website. Go check them out when you have [...]
READ MORE »Reveal: Where are you?
My brother, Joel, just posted about a book he recently read called Reveal. We were talking about it some as I was visiting with them and my new nephew this weekend. It’s written by Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson, and it takes a new look at the ways in which we measure the spiritual growth [...]
READ MORE »Death by Ministry
Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church has been posting several video portions of a talk he gave called Death by Ministry (via TheResurgence). Every one of them is full of great stuff. He talks about leadership methods, stress, burnout, health, etc. Below are links to all eleven parts of the video. If you’re in church [...]
READ MORE »Back from CIY
We’re back from CIY and now in the midst of VBS (it’s like the month of acronyms or something). CIY was amazing. It was great to get to know some of our high schoolers more and to see them grow throughout the week. We have some great kids at ACC. Marie and I also got [...]
READ MORE »Decoding Culture
Just read an excellent blog posting by Mark Batterson of National Community Church in Washington, DC. It’s actually an excerpt from a book he is contributing to on decoding culture, which is one of the themes for Buzz07 (which Mike and I were really hoping to go to this year – next year we’ll be [...]
READ MORE »Student Ministries Website Release
Our new student ministries website is officially live starting today. You can visit it at www.ameliastudents.com. We’ve worked really hard to make it a safe and fun place for our students and their friends. You’ll probably see some changes with it over the next several months as we tweak it to be even more centered [...]
READ MORE »Blogging Pastors Article
Our very own Mike Edmisten is being featured in a Cincinnati Enquirer article called Preaching beyond the pulpit: Web-savvy pastors turn to blogs. It’s pretty cool to see the things that have changed and the new people that have been reached because of the use of our website and Mike’s blog. He’s really embraced it [...]
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