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miracles with a guarantee

July 5th, 2009

For the past five weeks we’ve been teaching (@MapleGrove) a series called Miracles. This week we used the illustration of Jesus’ first recorded miracle in the Bible – when Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding.

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church directory using facebook

June 9th, 2009

One of the questions I frequently hear from unconnected people in the church is “we need a church directory”.  These are usually people that have been in church for a while, or been at another church where they had some form of printed directory. Read more…

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life. money. hope.

March 13th, 2009

In the times we’re in, everyone and their expert are giving financial advise.  But the truth is, the truth has not changed.

Financial mentor Dave Ramsey is currently teaching a 3-week series at LifeChurch.tv for churches across the world to use. It’s called Life. Money. Hope.

Dave did an interview about the series (you can watch it below),  here are a few bullet points;

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that will never happen!

March 2nd, 2009

Yesterday this guy said something to me that got me thinking.

“That will never happen” …

We were talking about some of those “what if” kinds of things. Dreaming big.

All these church “experts” are saying “watch out” right now because of the economy, money is tight, some churches are laying people off, others are cutting programs. Read more…

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Getting Small

February 10th, 2009

Sunday we had a great turn out for our first “Get Small” event @MapleGrove.

People interested in finding a LifeGroup pre-registered for the short get together held immediatly after the Sunday morning service.  Everyone was seated at tables and were asked to share answers to a couple simple ‘ice breaker” questions. Read more…

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