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Don’t Preach to Me!
A preacher once asked comedian and actor George Burns for
advice; “You’re so good with audiences, Mr. Burns, and you hold
their attention so well. Do you have any advice for a preacher?” He
answered, “My advice is to have a good beginning, and good ending,
and then keep them as close together as you can.”
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Freedom
of Religion
Many thousands of Christians around the world
die each and every year for their rights to worship God. Yet in
America—a country established for that very right—many will not give
God the time of day. It feels more like “Freedom from Religion”
than “Freedom of Religion”.
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What is Together for Lincoln?
Together for
Lincoln is a partnership consisting of over 15 area churches who are
committed to work together to share the love of Jesus Christ by
serving our community. Our first day of service will be on Sunday,
September 28, 2008. On that day, we will send dozens of teams into
the community to do everything from building wheelchair ramps for
individuals to visiting members of our community who are in the
nursing home. The day will conclude with a community worship
gathering in the evening.
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Praise God
For What He Does
Ephesians 5:19-20 says we are to “speak
to one another with songs, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make
melody in your hearts to the Lord, always giving things to God the
father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We
praise God for His works.
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Desiring the past, despising the present
Many times I feel like I’m wasting my life
away, sitting through lectures that are structured by a flawed
system of education, playing virtual games, and constantly looking
towards the future, thinking things will get better. A lot of times
we think about our past, when we were younger, and want our lives to
be like that again.
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Fire
There’s
something about fire that mesmerizes us, attracts us, draws us in.
Its raw power and energy has amazing potential to be used for
good—to heat our homes, to give us light, to cook our food, create
spaces where we tell stories and connect with each other—and also to
destroy as it consumes whatever we throw into it. It’s untamed, we
can’t understand it, and it carries the potential to break out into
something so totally beyond us. It’s a thing of awe, a thing of
terror, a thing of beauty and a thing that has often inspired
worship.
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Understanding where our uniqueness is from
We desire old, vintage, nostalgic
things’ they’re things we want. I love the look of old movie
theaters, the smell of old books, the glimmer of classic cars, the
design of old posters and the simplicity of a boy shooting his eye
out in A Christmas Story.
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Cleaning House
I
talked with a friend this week about an opportunity she had to help
a guy clean his house. It may not sound that monumental, except his
house hadn’t been cleaned for SEVEN years. Something had happened,
and his life as he had known it ended. Maybe something died, or
shut down, but stuff started to pile up—garbage, dishes, papers,
clothes—until it felt overwhelming. His friends didn’t know how bad
it had gotten, he hadn’t shown them, or maybe they just never
stopped by. My friend was the first in a long time. They spent six
hours cleaning, just so they could clear a path so the appraiser
could walk through the house. It’s not finished, and there’s a
whole lot more to do, but it’s a start.
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Homeless in Lincoln
When
the two of us decided to experience homelessness one weekend for a
cross-cultural assignment, the lifestyle that over 20 million
Americans experience every year, we were not ready for what we
encountered.
We thought it would be easy to find money or
food in exchange for work, and we were worried we wouldn’t even see
any homeless people, much less interview them. Instead, we were met
by people who wouldn’t look us in the eye, much less give us the
opportunity to work for them.
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How Graduates Can Make Wise
Decisions
A
pastor friend called and asked for counsel: “A 13 year old girl in
my church is from a broken home. Her father left her mother and has
been living with another woman. The Dad has joint custody and
visitation rights and the girl went to visit him for two weeks.
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Have Americans
lost their sense of reality to the The Truth?
Do
we really understand what freedom is all about? Many have paid
dearly for maintaining freedom. “Freedom is not Free”...
much blood has been shed in the name of freedom. Has all this
blood been shed in vain? How can God Bless America when abortion
has killed over 46 million babies; that’s more than double the
number of people who were killed in Holocaust.
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Do You Really Want To Know The Truth?
I
had spoken at a family conference
and explained and illustrated Bible truths about how a
parent can “turn around” a rebellious teen.
-- A man came up to me and
said, “How did you discover such amazing truths?” I replied,
“The Bible is the mind of man’s Creator revealed to man. In
the Bible God gave to man every key truth man would need to
live human life. Our difficulty is in receiving and
believing ALL of those truths. But each truth we believe
opens up another set of truths. And each one of those opens
up another set, etc. etc.”
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Lincoln Churches Come Together in Action
Community
action of some kind is commonplace inside most
churches. But for the first time in Lincoln, 11 churches --
and that number is anticipated to grow to more than 15 --
have banded together to create the campaign "Together for
Lincoln." This unified action will involve all participating
churches being committed to working together to serve the
community, from building wheelchair ramps to visiting the
homebound.
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Living With Regret
By Ronald K. Denlinger
An error in
judgment can result in a lifetime of regret. It isn't
required that there be any intentional harm to another in
order for us to carry sorrowful thoughts about our actions.
Each of us looks back at things we've done, and we wish for
just a moment in which we could have made a different
decision. If only we had thought more carefully about the
potential consequences. If only we had taken a slightly
different course.
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