Articles for tag: Sermon on the Mount

June 8, 2011

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Read the Bible

By Jon Weece Of all the books our children will read in their lifetimes, none will prove more valuable than the Bible. But the Bible has been exiled from far too many Christian homes. I love to read. Always have and probably always will. When I was in the third grade my older brother, Jud, introduced me to the book My Side of the Mountain. It chronicled the life of a boy who ran away from home and lived in a hollowed-out tree in the Catskill Mountains of New York. At the age of 9, I did not possess the

February 21, 2010

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Welcome Home

By Marshall Hayden It was our first trip with church members to the Holy Land. Driving from the airport, our guide (who has since become our favorite guide) asked the bus driver to pull onto the shoulder of the road about a hundred yards from the top of a hill. “Follow me,” he said. As we topped the rise, there it was, spread out ahead of us, filling the horizon! “Welcome to your spiritual home,” he said. When we climbed back on the bus we heard the first strains of a recording, “Jerusalem.” It was pretty quiet. Except for a

November 5, 2006

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JUST WAR? – A Valid Concept

By Jack Cottrell To my knowledge, in Christian history no one has ever tried to defend war as such, or to justify indiscriminate participation in warfare. However, for centuries many Christians have believed that in any given war, usually one side of the conflict is evil while the other side is righteous or just. In the most basic terms, those who hold this view generally say that the aggressor (the one who starts the war) is guilty of sin, while the defender (the one fighting to repel the aggressor) is not. From the standpoint of the latter, the cause is

July 16, 2006

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Taking Small Groups to a Higher Level

By Greg Marksberry Most newer and larger churches believe small groups are a leading contributor to their growth. This strategy for building community has emerged as the most effective way to connect people within the body of Christ. But are we using small groups as well as we could to produce fully devoted Christ-followers? A recent Barna Research Group survey indicates small group participation has doubled over the last decade, with nearly a quarter of churchgoers attending weekly small group meetings. But while participation is up, discipleship is not. When asked to identify their most important goal in life, not

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