Church Stuff
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Easter Happenings at CrossWay
Today we’re having an Easter egg hunt at church for kids in the community. Tomorrow we launch the “Tough Questions About God” series. The question for Easter: Why should I believe Jesus rose from the dead? Looking forward to it! Continue reading
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Sign Progress
Recently I posted the picture shown below, which shows the hole we dug to install the new church sign: We’re making progress! Below is a picture of what it looks like now. The wooden box sits over the hole. It’s actually a whole lot more complex than it looks. It’s perfectly level and is tightly… Continue reading
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Marriage: Back to Basics
Yesterday at CrossWay Church we talked about marriage. We looked at 1 Peter 2:20-3:7. Sometimes 1 Peter 3:1-7 is preached by itself and taken way out of context. To understand it correctly, it’s necessary to back up at least as far as verse 20 in the previous chapter. (Chapter and verse markings in the Bible… Continue reading
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Sign Installation: Step 1
Well, at least we’ve got a hole dug where the new sign is going to be: As you can see, we’ve got some drainage issues! Continue reading
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Tough Questions About God
On Easter at CrossWay we’re launching a five-week series called “Tough Questions about God.” Each week we’ll wrestle with a different question. Week One: Why should I believe Jesus really rose from the dead? Week Two: Why do bad things happen to good people? Week Three: Is the Bible really true? Week Four: Don’t all… Continue reading
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Sign Update
This evening we’re breaking ground for installation of the new sign. Yes! Continue reading
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Getting Rid of Hymnals
We’re getting rid of our hymnals at CrossWay. We just don’t use them anymore. Today I took inventory so I could give details to some people who are interested in them. Apparently we’d become a kind of orphanage for stray hymnals. There were 63 of them–consisting of 14 different editions! How would that work in… Continue reading
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Baptism!
Last night we had an awesome baptism service at Berlin First Baptist Church! Three churches combined and we baptized about 20 people. The service crossed ethnic, denominational, and language barriers. Two churches were Baptist, while the other was Mennonite. Two were English-speaking, one was Spanish-speaking. Baptizing about 20 people and having everything translated into both… Continue reading
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Simple Church Conference
Last Friday I went to Baltimore with Pastor John Coleman from Church @ the Gathering Tree. We attended a conference at Streetlite Christian Fellowship, led by Eric Geiger. Geiger is the co-author, along with Thom Rainer, of Simple Church. Some takeaways from the conference: If someone came to our church and asked a bunch of… Continue reading
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