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An Open Letter to Eddie Hammett

By on Friday, March 20th, 2015 | No Comments

Eddie: Thanks so much for including me in the Congregational Coaching seminar earlier this week at the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The resources you provided in the seminar, as well as your exceptional book, “Recovering Hope for Your Church: Moving beyond Maintenance and Missional to Incarnational Engagement” should be of tremendous help to pastors, […]

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C. Dollar, C. Dollar, C. Dollar

By on Thursday, March 19th, 2015 | No Comments

I have recently spent a few days exchanging with some in my Facebook about C. Dollar’s (Creflo Dollar’s) unbiblical pleas and poor theology.  You know what I am talking about.  C. Dollar asked all of his church members to pony up $300 so he can buy a new $65 million private jet for his “ministry” (ahem).   (Click here if […]

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Dust

By on Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 | No Comments

Dust Mark 11 I don’t know what things have been like around your house, but around the Nieporte’s’ household, we’ve been focusing on SPRING CLEANING.   Now throughout the year we do clean the house.  We mop floors, vacuum the carpet, and clean the tub and the sinks, that sort of thing.  But each spring […]

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I am done with movements

By on Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 | No Comments

I am done with movements… with charismatic movements, back to the bible movements, moderate movements, conservative resurgence movements, anti-institutional church movements, liberal church movements, liberation movements, grace movements, restoration of the church movements, finished work movements, Trinitarian movements, morality movements, Jesus movements, spiritual renewal movements, THE KEY WORLD I AM DONE WITH IS MOVEMENTS Movements […]

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“Oh, please, give me a break!” I am just saying…

By on Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 | No Comments

I am just saying… I have been a member of three churches as a young person in high school, college, and seminary. I have been on staff as a member of two others, and pastor of six (two in seminary, four since then). These have been United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, and Baptist congregations. I […]

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A Love Worth Giving

By on Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 | No Comments

This post include the sermon  text for the message I, Bill Nieporte, preached on the first Sunday of February, 2015 at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, VA.  The video will be added soon. Whenever you visit a blog, be kind to the blog publisher. If you find a post helpful, inspirational, or even a bit controversial, […]

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I resign, quit, surrender

By on Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 | 2 Comments

  Each one of us has a way of shutting things out, a way of shutting other people out, a way of shutting God out.  In the Hebrew Bible we read a story Joshua telling Moses to instruct Eldad and Medad to stop preaching in the camp (see Number 11:24-29).  In the Gospel (Mark 9:38-50) […]

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It’s Not About Heaven Or Hell

By on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 | 9 Comments

Christianity is not ALL about avoiding hell or having a happy afterlife in heaven. In fact, it’s not even MOSTLY about those things. I do not think it is about these things much at all. The schema (organizing principle) of the Christianity is focused on the life we live here and now. It is focused […]

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An Atheist Parking Spot

By on Friday, December 12th, 2014 | No Comments

Yesterday, this made me VERY angry. But I am better now. I was in a nearby hospital parking lot. A member of my parish is in ICU with serious heart problems (sort of touch and go, if you know what I mean). The lot is full…but finally, a clergy parking spot open. Another car slips […]

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You Can’t Handle The Truth

By on Friday, December 5th, 2014 | No Comments

There is a segment of folks I met both in social media and everyday life who believe that because I am a Christian, Baptist, and member of the clergy, that I am somehow close-minded, ill-informed, and unenlightened—even worse, an oppressor of all “free-thinkers.” I met a guy like that yesterday in a burger joint. We […]

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