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Recover The WOW-Factor

By on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Sherry was an attractive girl – very attractive.  She dressed well, had a great smile, a warm personality, and an infectious giggle.  Her favorite word was WOW!  She could not speak three sentences without inserting that word somewhere in her conversation. I met Sherry in the AGAPE Club – the Christian club that met before […]

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Fundamentalism

By on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | 4 Comments

“I’m just saying…” A recent Facebook post has been stirring the pot recently on my board.  Here’s what I wrote: “Norway is one of the wealthiest (per capita) countries in the world. It also, according to some, has a tendency toward economic socialism & multi-culturalism. I have read two right-wing bloggers & heard “the third […]

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Whooohooo – My Ship Has Finally Come IN

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

I got a terrific letter in the mail: “Dear Dr. William M. Nieporte: Results are in and final.  I am proud to announce that you are our newest winner with $10 million dollars.” Well, of course I was excited.  I started to imagine all the things I could do with $10 million dollars.  I thought […]

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C.S. Lewis on “hating the sin and loving the sinner!”

By on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | No Comments

I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. …I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the […]

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Quick Quote: Christianity is NOT a Moral Code of Conduct according to C.S. Lewis

By on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk […]

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Position Available

By on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Position Available After 48 years playing the organ & piano in several different congregations – with about 20 of them being at Patterson Avenue Baptist Church, Johnnie Taggart is retiring, effective August 28, 2011.  She’ll be missed and we will have a BIG party to send her into retirement in style (she deserves it). As a […]

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Who I Sense God The Spirit Is Making Me Into…

By on Monday, July 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Motto: “Inspire Hope!” Personal Philosophy I want everything I say, think, and do, to make a positive difference in the world, therefore I commit to live in such a way that I inspire hope in others. Mission Statement My mission is to teach, lead, and model what it means to be a follower of Jesus […]

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What Are You Worth?

By on Sunday, July 10th, 2011 | 1 Comment

According to the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, the typical human body is made up of the following chemicals: • 65% Oxygen • 18% Carbon • 10% Hydrogen • 3% Nitrogen • 1.5% Calcium • 1% Phosphorous • 0.35% Potassium • 0.25% Sulfur • 0.15% Sodium • 0.15% Chlorine • 0.05% Magnesium • 0.0004% […]

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Traveling First Class

By on Friday, July 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment

I read an interesting bit of information recently that reminded me of certain attitudes and habits among us that need to be challenged by the vision of reality that Jesus came into the world to embody. The information comes by way of famed preacher John Claypool and harkens back to a time when the stagecoach […]

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Quick Quote from Robert Capon

By on Friday, June 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Robert Caponw challenges us to: “Trust Him! “And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace. No matter what happens to you in the course of that trusting — no matter how many waverings you may have, no matter how many suspicions that you have bought a poke with no pig […]

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