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I'm one of the pastors here at Smokey Point Community Church and they allow me to have the responsibility and privilege of overseeing budgets, buildings, publications, communication, "other duties as assigned by the Lead Pastor," planning, office staff, maintenance staff, and some other stuff. Of course, this does not mean that the leadership team (or you) agree with everything I post here. It's just my opinion. So consider yourself warned! ;-)
I post this article not to brag on our church. Ok, maybe I do. But while many of you know the story, many of you do not. Read the last sentence in this article from the Arlington Times.
I've been preparing for facilitating the Financial Peace University course coming up on May 28. I was checking out a few things on Dave Ramsey's website, and ran accross this inspiring story about a guy who just had his power turned off. Dave gave him some great counsel that may be good for you or someone you know.
Here is your chance to affect the future. This summer we'll do a Top 10 sermon series where we take the top 10 topics that you want to hear a sermon on and preach through them over ten weeks. Here's how to weigh in...
I read this blog today about a church plant that had their trailer (with all their stuff in it for church services) stolen. The short of the story is that they posted billboards around their community with some interesting sayings. I found the following one funny but pointed at the same time. Clever.
A friend of mine sent me this video link today. I am directly reminded of the verse in Colossians that Jim used a while back that serves as the backdrop of the first part of our purpose statement as a church: "Celebrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ..."