June 29, 2015
Crazy Poor
Luke Erickson opened MCC’s Crazy Eights summertime series on Jesus’ Beautitudes from Sermon on the Mount with this message on “Crazy Poor.” Here’s the YouVersion Event and here is a study guide for groups (also useable for individuals).
When you are poured out, God will pour in. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up. @Luke_Erickson @Mountain_CC
— Joyce La Padula (@joycelapadula) June 28, 2015
When you are all poured out , God pours more in. Less of you more of Him. @Luke_Erickson #CrazyPoor
— John Raccioppi (@JohnRaccioppi) June 28, 2015
June 23, 2015
Getting a Grip on Fatherhood
Ben Cachiaras concluded our Love Handles series with a message that encourages fathers, and all of us, “It doesn’t matter where your feet have been, it matters where your feet are headed.” Study guide here, and some follow up humor to last week’s message on the potential pitfalls for social media overload from three funny MCC fathers:
June 15, 2015
Getting a Grip On Friendship
Ben Cachiaras taught about the importance of the right kind of friendships in shaping our spiritual paths, including cautioning about replacing geniune personal relationships with social media. This is an especially important reminder to readers of this blog that online tech is a tool for us, not the master of us … This is this week’s study guide.
"Can we invest in friendships face to face rather than thumb to thumb?"@BenCachiaras @Mountain_CC
— Jeff Buck (@serveleadlove) June 14, 2015
"King David never would've become who he did without the friends God put in his life." @BenCachiaras @Mountain_CC #LoveHandles
— Brianna Olson (@Bri_Olson) June 14, 2015
June 7, 2015
Getting a Grip On Divorce
Nathan McDade continued the “Love Handles” series by opening his message with the self-disclosure that he is the “model” for the series logo [much congregational applause for his humble transparency] 🙂
“God hates divorce, but he loves us. God hates divorce, but loves YOU. There is hope.”@nathanmcdade @Mountain_CC #lovehandles
— Jeff Buck (@serveleadlove) June 6, 2015
“Love means sacrificing your right to be offended.” @Rob_arsenaultjr #LoveHandles #MtnCC
— Brianna Olson (@Bri_Olson) June 7, 2015
Here are the Bible.com-YouVersion Event notes and message-based study guide.
June 4, 2015
looking at Evangelicals through non-US eyes
From two different socio-political perspectives, reflections on Christ-followers who are doing “more and better”
Peter Berger focuses on Germany “Are Evangelicals Winning the World” Noteworthy that Berger changed the title of the Der Speigel article on which he’s commenting — the original German is apparently “are Evangelicals conquering the world” (not even a novice in German, I will take Berger’s word on it)
Earlier this year, Pulitzer prize winning columnist (and Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit speaker) Nicholas Kristof posted this positive look at Christian charity, “A Little Respect for Dr Foster”, in the op-ed section of the NY Times, not normally a forum for pro-Christian views.
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