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Learns and Grows in Community
A healthy disciple learns and grows in community. A healthy disciple is involved in spiritual and relational growth in the context of a safe and affirming group of like-minded believers. Watch the video (above) Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Learns and Grows in Community This message is part of…
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Practices the Spiritual Disciplines
Among the first things you see when you walk into the sanctuary of BBC are the four wooden carvings over the organ speaker screens. These beautiful pieces were created by folks at BBC (read more here). When we began the process of deciding what to have up front as a visual, we wanted Christian images…
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Engages in God Exalting Worship
“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.” William Temple Watch the video (above) Click…
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Experiencing God’s Empowering Presence
As we begin our series, Becoming a Healthy Disciple: Ten Traits of a Vital Christian, the first trait is “a Healthy Disciple Experiences God’s Empowering Presence.” A healthy disciple understands the role of the Holy Spirit, and lives daily with a fresh reality of the Spirit’s power and presence. Watch the video (above) Click to…
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New Sermon Series: Becoming A Healthy Disciple
Beginning the week of Sunday, September 23 and running through the last week of November we’re going to be engaged in a church wide spiritual growth campaign based on the book Becoming a Healthy Disciple – 10 Traits of a Vital Christian by Steve Macchia. Each Sunday in worship we will address one of the…
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Mercy on the Journey
There are times to go and do mercy like the Samaritan, and times to sit and listen like Mary. The life of a disciple requires both. The power of these two stories consists in Jesus’ choice of characters to illustrate love of neighbor and the love of God; a Samaritan and a woman. The social…
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Are You Sharing the Message?
While we were not part of the 70 Jesus personally sent out, there are principles and values to live out from this passage that are for us as well. It will require reflection on our part as to how we can effectively share the Gospel with those around us and be the harvesters that are…
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On the Road with Jesus
And yet each of these people, however reluctantly, did what God asked, and God blessed their reluctant discipleship. This is Good News, because it means that God does not grade us with an indelible “F” when we sin or protest or offer excuses. [powerpress] Video available on our Messages page.
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Journey Into the Unknown
All of our lives have, and will have, journeys off into the unknown. None of us know where our lives are heading, but we do know that God has promised to be with us, and he asks us, like the Disciples and like Abraham, to follow him and his leading into the unknown. [powerpress] Video…
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