Apr 22
Who are you? Who do you worship? Are those questions related? I would say the second question directly shapes and creates the answer to the first! You become like what you worship! James Michener writing in his book, The Source, tells the story of a man named Urbaal, who was a farmer living about 2200 …
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Jan 18
Keeping a prayer journal or list can be more challenging that at first thought. The list can get long quickly and it can be difficult to use it everyday. Praying as a married couple can also be a challenge. It is difficult to mutually make time for it, and sometimes both partners may not feel …
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Jan 04
The young, wild pony would have nothing to do with his new owners. He was a danger to the kids and anyone in his area. He was afraid of all humans and refused to cooperate with their plans. After much work and maneuvering the family finally got him into a barn stall. This is when …
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Nov 02
Why do you worship God? Do you worship from a sense of duty? We should feel a duty to worship God, after all Jesus said, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” (Mat. 4:10). It should eat away at our conscience when we fail at our obligation to worship, …
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Jul 07
We live in a world of chaos. Our lives are like walking through a crowded mall during Christmas. We are surrounded by stores attractively designed to grasp our attention. Salesmen working a kiosk booth ask for a few moments of our time to sell us what we have always needed, but never knew we wanted! …
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Mar 22
All churches can have times where you get bored. You may get bored with a Bible class teacher, or a person who makes too many comments in Bible class. You may be bored with the same old youth group activities. You may not like a song leader or a song that goes on endlessly like …
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Mar 15
We try to do nightly family devotionals. We typically keep ours pretty short (between 4 – 10 minutes). For the last year or so we have just sung songs that the kids knew by memory, or occasionally pulled out a song book. But we don’t have enough song books, and typically don’t want to take …
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Oct 23
Last week I offered a survey on this site regarding Sunday night. I also asked members of Seven Oaks to fill it out. I thought you might enjoy learning about the results and my observations. There were 93 respondents and I appreciate each who took the survey. The Results: Which of the …
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Oct 13
Please take a minute and fill out this survey regarding Sunday nights. I will help me and others as I will be sharing this information. The survey is anonymous and is very concise. Thanks in advance. Help me share the survey with others too. Thanks, Josh
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Aug 26
You want to start a discussion, or maybe I should say an argument, then get off on the topic of worship. People have strong convictions about worship. Worship is quite possibly the hardest thing we as mere mortal humans ever try to do! Worship is so connected to our faith and what we do in …
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