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Top 5 Posts of 2018

2018 was an excellent year for our blog! Thanks to those who contributed and to you, our faithful readers. In the past year, we had over 24,000 people come and read our posts – more than 24,000 opportunities to share Jesus Christ with others. Through our blog, we’ve been able to reach beyond the greater

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Praying Scripture

In the newly formed women’s group for our church, we watched the movie War Room and talked about prayer. Several years ago I received a bookmark of Scripture-Based Prayers to Pray for Your Pastor, and I’ve used that regularly ever since. I’ve also collected other such prayers as I’ve read through the Bible. Here are

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10 Tips for Getting to Church on Sunday Morning (On Time)

Read this and other practical posts on my blog: Modern Church Ideas (modernchurchideas.blogspot.com). Getting together regularly with a group of fellow Christians is so important to following Christ. To not meet with them is to ignore most of what the New Testament tells us to do. My family has understood that, and we’ve always made

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Blessed?

Many people like to use the hashtags #blessed or #soblessed when something good happens. I have no problem with that; however, a quick browse of those tags on Twitter reveals some alarming and even blasphemous comments. I will no longer assume that a person saying “I’m blessed” is necessarily Christian. I think there is a

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One Body

Lately, our church has been discussing the biblical basis for church membership and what that should look like. As Sam Allberry points out in this video clip (referring to Hebrews 10:25), the “opposite of not going to church is encouraging one another.” How can we encourage one another when we have no relationship? How can

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