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Tweetimonies: Brooke Ray

Our staff recently wrote our faith stories/ conversion stories in 140 characters (the limit for Twitter).  Here’s the faith story of Brooke Ray, one of our Youth Ministers: I tried to please everyone around me to feel loved and to feel good about myself. But in Jesus I have found someone who loves me no [...]

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The Power of the Family Meal

A few years ago the Washington Post ran an article called “The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier.”[i]  The article reviewed research showing that eating “ordinary, average everyday supper with your family is strongly linked to lower incidence of bad outcomes such as teenage drug and [...]

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Eschatological eclipse leads to social injustice?

Jesus tells a parable of a master who leaves and puts his servant in charge (Matt. 24).  The servant believes the master will be long in returning.  And the first thing he does is start beating other servants (Matt. 24:49).  Is it coincidence that the man’s unwillingness to live with any kind of immanent eschatological world [...]

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Acts 4 in Memphis

My friend Josh Ross preaches for the Sycamore View Church of Christ in Memphis.  Last Sunday he preached from Acts 4 and challenged the church to ensure there were no needy persons among them.  You’ll never believe what happened next: http://preacherjosh.blogspot.com/

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