Mar 12, 2012
Welcoming Hardship as Opportunity for Growth
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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Life is a constant barrage of annoyance isn’t it? We like to say we have good days and bad one’s. On certain days, it seems to be one little thing after another. But life is not limited to the little inconveniences. Sometimes things are big, real big.
I have a really big inconvenience. It is called kidney disease. I have had it for about 23 years now. It has placed a lot of limitations on my lifestyle. Most people who see me do not think there is that much wrong with me, unless they see me limping
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Mar 08, 2012
Why I am “Religious”
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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What if I said, “I am religious.” What would that say to you? What would that conjure in your mind? How would that change your opinion of me? It has gotten pretty popular today for the new wave of preachers to suggest that religion and the Gospel are two different things, that they are at odds. I get that. But are they really? Or is this a new way for us as a church to accommodate a modern inwardly focused spiritualizing that has become so widespread?
How many times have you heard someone say, “I consider myself
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Mar 05, 2012
Creating the Passive Christian: When the Church Follows Those Who Won’t Follow Jesus
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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The modern Church tends to run in cycles. A key cycle is every so often, we realize we are getting stagnant, maybe losing membership and numbers. This comes as a sudden wake-up call and we realize that we need place the focus on evangelism and mission again. The last 30 years or so has been such a time. We have seen the Church growth movement, the Seeker-sensitive movement, and now the missional movement. To be fair, each of these have generally seen themselves as something different. I guess to one degree or another they are, at least in
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Mar 01, 2012
Are You a “Real” Friend
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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I think we have a perverted view of what it means to be a friend in the modern world. I would say on the whole, we see friendship as somewhat progressive. By this I mean that the longer we “know” someone, the better friends we assume them to be. Of course this often comes crashing down when someone you have known for a large part of your life suddenly and hatefully turns their back on you showing utter disregard for the relational capital.
As Christians, we are called to be friends not
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