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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
Every time I have the privilege of announcing another "rose" on stage (representing a salvation that previous week), I am itching to share some of the amazing stories that take place in less visual avenues of the spiritual journey. Every week, we have the awesome opportunity of pointing people to Jesus. This past year has been especially fruitful in that way, as is evidenced by emails, phone conversations, coffees, and brief passing comments in the hallway. We have people with no church background finding their way to our gatherings, as well as others just out of jail, or recovering from addictions, or simply coming back after a long time away. I talk with many who want their lives to matter for eternity, and are offering themselves to God to do just that. I love doing what I have been freed up to do. . . (read more in this blog)
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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How often are you conscious of the people around you when you are worshipping God? Do you sometimes find that you are focussing more on the other people around you than you are on actually worshipping God? Are you able to worship God with abandon? |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
 Fantasy lovers love allegory. And nobody's known more for creating allegorical fantasy than C.S. Lewis.
So it's to great anticipation that the second movie in The Chronicles of Narnia franchise (based on the fourth book in Lewis' series of seven) arrives in theaters. Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter are a year older than they were in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and they're longing to return to the world that once made them kings and queens.
They get their wish while sitting on a train platform waiting to go back to school for a new term. They're pulled into Narnia at the request of Susan's magical horn of need, blown by Prince Caspian. Little do they know that Cair Paravel lies in ruins and 1,300 years have passed since their last visit.
Read more about Prince Caspian online here:
Watch it in theaters now!
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
Why you should not go to the "Sex in the Summer Seminar"?
If you say:
I have this 'love of God' thing down pretty well -- if I dare say so myself.
I think that the Old Testament is irrelevant for truly enlightened people today.
Old Hebrew poetry is really for old Hebrews.
I just don't want to speak of 'sex' with God in the room.
God and sex just don't mix.
My life just can't get any better than it is right now!
Sex education should be left in Public schools where it belongs!
Me? -- needing advice on romance and relationships? You're kidding right?
If any of these very worn, embarrassing phrases come out from your lips, you probably won't get a lot out of the sessions. But, if you really want to deepen your relationship with the living Triune God... If you really want to plunge more and more into the height and length and width and depth of the love of Christ... if you really want to experience more of the joy and wholeness that Christ purchased for you-- then this is the seminar for you! Come with high expectations of great transformation
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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 You are invited to attend the 11th annual Creation Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater! Each year thousands gather from all over the United States and Canada to attend this uplifting 4 night and 3 day festival. The Creation Festival offers a variety of wonderful experiences such as concerts, inspired teaching, camping, long lasting friendships, and so much more!
This year, Alive is taking a group down, so you don't want to miss out! Check out the details in this blog and plan to join us!
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
 Want to make you aware of our final series at Alive before our switch to Alive in the Park. It’s called Modern Day Idolatry, and it runs Monday May 12th & 19th. I’ve been wrestling with this question of what idols we serve nowadays. They definitely aren’t little statues of cows or doves (unless you’re different than I am!) I find they are things far more tangible and tempting in our lives. Things like material possessions, popularity, self-image, career advancement, relationships, and the like. Read more about what's happening at Alive in this update.
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
 Reading Break" is a curious name to call a week that most students use to do anything but. But Rich is not like most students. In fact, he looks forward to this week because it gives him more time to digest new learnings. It's also a good catch-up week for him, and Rich has planted himself this morning at his favorite coffee shop, "DeBeans". After ordering his morning "pick-me-up", he settles into a comfy chair with a book that has piqued his interest, a requirement for one of his philosophy classes. Philosophy interests Rich, but he's not sure if that's the direction he ultimately wants to pursue. A sophomore at the local university, he has yet to declare a major, wavering between sociology, psychology, and philosophy. The book is entitled "Why Relativism Is Winning the Day", and it has caught Rich's interest.
As he begins highlighting some of the remarks in the preface, the door to the coffee shop opens to reveal one of Rich's teammates on the university soccer team, Adam. Adam is two years older than Rich and is completing his degree in philosophy, with a minor in religious studies. Rich has always enjoyed Adam, respecting his character on and off the soccer field.
Read Pastor Mike's paper responding to "Moral Relativism" Good For You but Not Good For Me.
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 |
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We all have things in our lives where we need to learn to trust someone other than ourselves. One of these is for victory in the spiritual battle that we are all involved in. For the last few days I've been thinking a lot about the question of: Who do I trust for victory in that battle? |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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If you've seen the weekly pop culture roundups, you know Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth has rested atop the New York Times bestseller list for weeks. Recent counts have it selling over three million copies—one million of which are due to Oprah's picking it for her book club. Over two million people are participating in a ten-week interactive webinar that Oprah hosts with Tolle (pronounced "toll-ee"). This is what many people are reading as they sip their lattes in Starbucks or close their evenings balled up on the couch. Many may very well be churchgoers.
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book's back matter calls Tolle's work "a profoundly spiritual
manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better
world." But A New Earth tastes like the warmed leftovers
of modernism, humanism, and the New Ageism of the '80s, with hints of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
Tolle
quotes from the Bible every three pages or so. Some of his
reflections have just enough truth to lull the reader into a dreamy
spiritual sleep that misses the rest of the story. Tolle even
rewrites Scripture to his own advantage. Many might argue A New
Earth is biblical—it's anything but. In this article, I'd like
to identify three of Tolle's themes that need to be addressed.
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