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From the Beach Chair
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Honest and frank discussion and encouragement fro m a pastor who is trying to move the local church into in to being a culturally relevant new testament church.
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I need to think ahead of the crowd...
I can't believe I let teenagers who have never been in a worship service, much less a sanctuary, sit by themselves with no Christian to interpret what was going on. So...our new youth...got bored and took a nap, got bored and picked on their neighbor...
Kids who won't sit still
We had an issue at church this morning...several new neighborhood children came. They've never been to a church service before. But they came to church on their own. No adult came with them or even brought them. They walk from their apartment a few b...
A new issue for the church...
At dinner one night this week at my favorite sports bar, Sports Page, I was talking with a couple that I had hoped would want to join our church. They have been attending several months. The husband plays in the band and they both work with our stud...
New Efforts
I have been working on the church's blog site, which is 99% ready to promote. (Click on the church logo to go to the site) and am sorry that I have not kept the dialog going. In the process of writing for the site, I ran across Brian McLaren's "Deep ...
Never Too Old to Goof Up
This Sunday at Bethlehem I will once again have the distinct pleasure to doing something that could humiliate myself and embarrass my family. Granted, this is not a first time opportunity. I get this pleasure each time I get dressed and go out in...

